Central European journal of operations research (CJOR) "operations research applied to health services (ORAHS) in Europe: general trends and ORAHS 2020 conference in Vienna, Austria"

Roberto Aringhieri; Patrick Hirsch; Marion S Rauner; Melanie Reuter-Oppermanns; Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann

doi:10.1007/s10100-021-00792-z

Central European journal of operations research (CJOR) "operations research applied to health services (ORAHS) in Europe: general trends and ORAHS 2020 conference in Vienna, Austria"

Cent Eur J Oper Res. 2022;30(1):1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10100-021-00792-z. Epub 2021 Dec 10.

Authors

Roberto Aringhieri¹, Patrick Hirsch², Marion S Rauner³, Melanie Reuter-Oppermanns⁴, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann⁵

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy.
² Institute of Production and Logistics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria.
³ School of Business, Economics, and Statistics, Department of Business Decisions and Analytics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Department of Law and Economics, Information Systems, Software and Digital Business Group, Technical University of Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 1, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
⁵ School of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences, Department of Finance, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Universitaetsstraße 15, Resowi G2, 8010 Graz, Austria.

Abstract

This articles provides a short summary of the research topics and latest research results of the European Working Group "Operations Research Applied to Health Services" (ORAHS) organized as an e-conference in Juli 2020 at the University of Vienna, Austria (https://orahs2020.univie.ac.at/). Furthermore, challenges for OR in health care including application areas, decision support systems, general trends, and modelling techniques are briefly illustrated from an European and international perspective by providing selected essential literature reviews.

Keywords: Disease policy modelling; Emergency medical services; Health care operations management; Health care workforce scheduling; Health economics; Strategic health care management.