Algorithmic advancements in discrete optimization : applications to machine learning and healthcare operations

In the next ten years, hospitals will operate like air-traffic control centers whose role is to coordinate care across multiple facilities. Consequently, the future of hospital operations will have three salient characteristics. First, data. The ability to process, analyze and exploit data effectively will become a vital skill for practitioners. Second, a holistic approach, since orchestrating care requires the concurrent optimization of multiple resources, services, and time scales. Third, real-time personalized decisions, to respond to the increasingly closer monitoring of patients. To support this transition and transform our healthcare system towards better outcomes at lower costs, research in operations and analytics should address two concurrent goals: First, develop new methods and algorithms for decision-making in a data-rich environment, which answer key concerns from practitioners and regulators, such as reliability, interpretability, and fairness.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Pauphilet, Jean(Jean A.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Dimitris Bertsimas.

• Operations Research Center.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127298

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127298