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SC02 - SIG Healthcare3: The operational aftermath of the pandemic
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Dynamic capacity management for deferred surgeries 1Southern Methodist University; 2Zuse Institute Berlin; 3University of Texas at Austin; 4Benefits Science Technologies The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated widespread deferrals of elective surgeries, which non only increase the cost from deterioration of patients' conditions but also decrease the revenue. We develop a robust optimization framework for the dynamic surgical capacity management problem. Our Implementation for more than 15,000 hernia patients in the United States demonstrates sizable improvements over alternative methods by up to 10% with multiple practical insights on optimal expansion strategy. Quantifying the benefits of targeting for pandemic response 1Stanford University, USA; 2INSEAD, France We propose and implement a rigorous framework and algorithms to quantify the merits of targeted confinement interventions for pandemic response, and demonstrate them in a case study of COVID-19 in Île-de-France. We find that optimized interventions that differentiate based on both population groups and activities are interpretable, and achieve significantly better health and economic outcomes, while also reducing confinement time for each group, compared to less targeted interventions. | ||