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MB3- HC10: Healthcare inventory management
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Inventory-responsive donor management policy: A tandem queueing network model 1Singapore Management University, Singapore; 2Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; 3Erasmus University In the blood donor management problem, the blood bank incentivizes donors to donate, given blood inventory levels. We propose an optimization model to design donor incentivization schemes that account for the blood inventory dynamics and the donor's donation process. By adopting the Pipeline Queue paradigm, we have a tractable convex reformulation. Numerical results show the advantages of the optimal policy compared with benchmark policies in reducing both shortages and wastage. Inventory management and shipment policies for clinical trials 1Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 2NEOMA Business School, France Clinical trials are a critical step for the development of new drugs, both in cost and in terms of elapsed time to bring the potential drug to the market. Since clinical trials are increasingly going global, optimizing the supply chain can bring huge benefits. We use a MDP to model the inventory problem between the central depot and the regional depots that will then supply the investigation sites. The main decision is when to resupply and how much inventory to send to each regional depot. Reshaping organ allocation policy through multi-objective optimization 1MIT, United States of America; 2UNOS, United States of America The Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network (OPTN) is migrating all US organ allocation policies to a novel continuous-distribution model. We introduce a novel analytical framework to illuminate policy tradeoffs and enable exploration of the efficient frontier of policies. Jointly with the OPTN, we applied our framework to the design of a new allocation policy for lungs. Starting in 2023, all deceased-donor lungs in the US will be allocated according to this policy. |