Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners

Chapter 1: Systems approach for preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes using sensing devices surrounding the patient's bed; Masato Takanokura, Masafumi Miyake, Masaru Kawakami, Tetsuo Yamada, Seiko Taki, Munenori Kakehi.- Chapter 2: A Multiobjective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints; Alain Guinet, Nadine Meskens, Tao Wang.- Chapter 3: Multi-Criteria Decision Making approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients; Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Afshin Jamshidi, Angel Ruiz, Daoud Ait-Kadi.- Chapter 4: Bed Managers: The patient's Personal Assistant; Sylvie Meyran, Seren Schirra, Gaelle Olleon, Estelle Forestier, Emmanuel Beaudry, Marie Lassaigne.- Chapter 5: An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room Scheduling; Johan Holmgren, Marie Persson.- Chapter 6: A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network through Nonlinear Markov Processes; Na Li, Quanlin li, Ruina Fan.- Chapter 7: Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical Analysis; Filippo Visintin, Paola Cappanera.- Chapter 8: A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning; Arianna Alfieri, Elisabetta Listorti, Andrea Matta.- Chapter 9: A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service; Azadeh Maroufkhani, Ettore Lanzarone, Cecily Castelnovo, Maria Di Mascolo.- Chapter 10: Ambulance Location Problem with Stochastic Call Arrivals under Nearest Available Dispatching Policy; Inkyung Sung, Taesik Lee.- Chapter 11: Approach to Clustering Clinical Departments; Alexander Hübner, Manuel Walther, Heinrich Kuhn.- Chapter 12: Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives; Seda Bas, Giuliana Carello, Ettore Lanzarone, Semih Yalcindag, Zeynep Ocak.- Chapter 13: Staffing Ratio Analysis

Andrea Matta is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He graduated in Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano where he developed his teaching and research activities as temporary Researcher from 1997 to 2001, Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2010, and Associate Professor from 2010 to current date. His research area includes analysis, design, and management of production and healthcare systems. He currently teaches Stochastic Models and System Modeling & Simulation at SJTU. He has published more than 100 papers, which have appeared on international journals and conference proceedings.

Evren Sahin is Full University Professor of Operations Management at CentraleSupélec, France. She received her PhD in Supply Chain Management in 2004. She is Director of the Faurecia Chair on Manufacturing and Logistics where she develops research in plant logistics optimization, cross-docking, and inventory management. She also works on healthcare management, with a particular focus on home care, emergency services design, and hospital flow management. She has more than thirty papers in international journals.
Jingshan Li received his BS from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, his MS from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering-Systems, at the University of Michigan in 1989, 1992 and 2000, respectively. He has worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky and in the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab at General Motors Research & Development Center. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Li is the co-author of the textbook Production Systems Engineering and co-editor of multiple book volumes on system science,

"This is a collection of peer-reviewed contributions from Second International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering in Lyon, France. ... The target audience includes faculties, medical doctors, students, and nurses from a variety of disciplines, particularly those who are interested in healthcare system engineering. ... This is a useful collection of papers on advances in healthcare systems engineering research." (Kamesh Sivagnanam, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2016)