This seminar will take place on May 17 at 11:30. The seminar will be in a hybrid format with:
- in-person session in the IST Alameda Campus, Department of Engineering and Management's Meeting Room
- online, via Zoom https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81637562452
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Summary
Soaring health care spending, especially after the COVID19 pandemic, has made it more essential than ever to find ways to increase the efficiency of health care systems to make them more sustainable. In this context, the use of quantitative techniques, typical of operations management/operational research, is essential. However, theoretical models do not necessarily translate into solutions capable of having an impact in real-life contexts. Bringing innovations in health systems requires changing and managing processes that are largely influenced by patients, in an environment "dominated" by highly-skilled professionals resistant to change. This seminar will present the results of an action research, carried out as a part of a doctoral project, that led to the reengineering of a major children's hospital's elective surgery scheduling process, the development of novel optimization and simulation models supporting the reengineered process, the creation of a scheduling software embedding the models, the implementation of such software and, finally, to the quantification of the benefits achieved with a before and after analysis.
Speaker's bio
Filippo Visintin is an Associate Professor of Service Design and Management at the School of Engineering of Florence University where he serves as the reference lecturer for the master's degree course in Management Engineering. He is a member of the Faculty Board of the Ph.D. Program in Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Information Based Industrial Services Laboratory – IBIS LAB of the Department of Industrial Engineering and member of the Medical and Health Information and Communication Technology Laboratory - MEDICAL ICT and of the Assistive bio robotics joint lab – ABR JOINT LAB. He is co-founder and co-owner of SmartOperations, an innovative start-up born as a University of Florence’s spin-off. His research interests include health care operations management, discrete-event simulation, servitization of manufacturing, and circular economy. He has authored several research papers published in international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers in Industry, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Flexible Service and Manufacturing Journal, Management Decision, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Production Planning and Control, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics and Plosone.