333. Integrated Planning of Home Healthcare with Multi-functional Medical Staff and Heterogeneous Demand
Invited abstract in session TA-11: Home Health Care, stream OR in Healthcare (ORAHS).
Tuesday, 8:30-10:00Room: Clarendon SR 1.03
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Wei-Ting Chen
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| National Yunlin University of Science and Technology | |
| 2. | Kuancheng Huang
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| National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | |
| 3. | Wan-Lin Lu
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| National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | |
| 4. | Chung-Yu Chen
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| National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch |
Abstract
As the senior population rapidly increases, the demand for home healthcare (HHC) is rising. HHC integrates medical resources into patients' homes, allowing them to receive care in a familiar environment while reducing the inconvenience of traveling to a medical facility. This study focuses on the staff assignment and routing problems in home healthcare, aiming to minimize the total workload of the multi-functional medical team. Based on the integrated home medical care plan promoted by the National Health Insurance Administration, medical institutions connect different professionals according to patient needs. Therefore, this study considers the scheduling and resource limitations of different professionals, as well as the diverse needs and care continuity of patients, to develop a mathematical model. Compared to previous research, this paper considers multiple professions in an HHC team while the requirements of visit and continuity for each profession are various. The proposed model plans patient assignments, scheduling, and visit routes across various time periods to improve service efficiency. Given the decreased efficiency of exact methods in solving larger-scale problems, the study adopts a tabu search algorithm to enhance solving efficiency. Numerical tests show that the designed algorithm effectively solves problems in both small and large-scale scenarios, with significantly reduced computation time compared to exact methods, demonstrating its potential and reliabilit
Keywords
- Health Care
- Programming, Mixed-Integer
- Vehicle Routing
Status: accepted
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