Health Systems Journal are inviting authors and researchers from the ORAHS stream at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds as well as from the ORAHS 2025 conference in Trondheim, to submit their recent work showcasing recent advancements, achievements and current challenges in healthcare ORMS, preferably with an integrated and / or interdisciplinary perspective.
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In 2025, we celebrate 50 years of EURO and 50 years since the EWG ORAHS was founded and the first ORAHS conference was organised in Exeter, UK. That is, for 50 years, healthcare ORMS researchers have met at both conferences and presented and discussed their approaches for all kinds of application cases in healthcare. While the ORAHS community acknowledged the links to healthcare practice from the very beginning, in recent years, we experienced a shift within ORAHS towards strengthening and improving the impact we make in practice and discussing how impact can be achieved. More and more researchers focus on addressing more realistic and impactful settings and planning problems, including integrated planning problems, targeting patient-centred care and systems perspectives. They start interdisciplinary research projects together with medical experts, as well as machine learning or information systems researchers to design decision support systems that can be transferred to and applied in practice. As healthcare systems face increasing challenges including a rise in demand, shortage of staff, continuing cost pressure, but also systematic or legislative changes, new medical guidelines and a need for digitalisation, the shift we can observe is crucial to address these challenges and help improving healthcare services and logistics in practice. Doing so, new ideas for ORMS models and approaches arise that can also lead to significant contributions in the literature.
With this special issue, we want to celebrate the occasion and showcase recent developments made within healthcare ORMS. Matching the topic of the ORAHS2025 conference “Enabling Healthcare Innovation through Operations Research”, we are interested in innovative ORMS approaches, innovative use cases, and examples as well as models for innovation in practice.
For this special issue, we explicitly invite authors and researchers from the ORAHS stream at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds as well as from the ORAHS 2025 conference in Trondheim, to submit their recent work showcasing recent advancements, achievements and current challenges in healthcare ORMS, preferably with an integrated and / or interdisciplinary perspective.
Therefore, topics of interest for this SI include, but are not limited to: