Hospital Planning Optimization

Capacity Planning

Optimization of long-term planning decisions such as:

• operating room opening hours
• resource demands: staff, rooms, devices, beds
• patient volume forecast

delivering an optimized cost-benefit analysis.

Shift Planning

Computation of weekly or monthly shift schedules based on:

• staff demands of each profession
• shift preferences and fairness
• minimum and maximum working hours
• standard and complex shift types: part-time, short-shifts, shift-exchange, ...

allows a unified integration of complex shift scheduling demands.

Operating Room Scheduling

The task is to decide which operations to perform in a given day and to allocate time and resources for:

• operating rooms,
• surgeons, assistants, nurses
• anesthesists, anesthesist nurses
• case carts, devices, ICU

for a fluent and robust process. For an optimized allocation we estimate the surgery durations based on: historical data, type of operation, patient data and additional risk factors.

Real-Time Scheduling

Once planned, an operating room schedule is subject to a lot uncertainty such that a quick reoptimization in necessary, for example in case of

• emergencies,
• sickness,
• delays, cancellations, no-shows,

while we can collect the real-time data to anticipate potential bottlenecks in the future.