50 years of ORAHS and EURO – Advancements, achievements and current challenges in healthcare ORMS.
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.
More details here.
Open PhD position
Open PhD position in my group at Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) on the topic
"Development of rostering algorithms considering service levelling, a multi-method
approach applied to Emergency Department in health services".
Requirements and Conditions:
(i) Background in Operational Research and Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, or similar;
(ii) Programming experience (C++, R, Python, Matlab or similar);
(iii) Advanced level of English;
(iv) Intermediate or advanced level of French (or willingness to reach an intermediate level before
the beginning of the PhD program);
(v) High motivation and commitment;
(vi) Rigor and perseverance in a demanding academic environment.
More details here.
If interested, please send a cover letter, CV, two recommendation letters, and all student transcript to
paolo.landa AT fsa.ulaval.ca
HOpeR 2025
The HOpeR graduate school 2025 will take place in Montreal (CA) from
26 to 30 May 2025.
Here the announcements for students
and healthcare professional.
ORAHS 2025
The ORAHS 2025 will take place in Trondheim (NO) from
6 to 11 July 2025. More info
here.
Position
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Data Analysis and Quantitative Methods
at ULaval, Canada. More info
here .
ORAHS 2024
The ORAHS 2024 will take place in Turin (IT) from
14 to 19 July 2024.
ORAHS 2022
The ORAHS 2022 website is online. Visit the
page
right now!
EWG co-coordination
Melanie Reuter-Oppermann is the new co-coordinator of the EWG!
Derya Demirtas, Elena Tanfani, Sebastian Rachuba and Ettore Lanzarone
are the Fab4.
Check the new organisation page.
CFP: ORAHS 2020 special issue
Deadline extended to December 31st, 2020.
Download the PDF
for more details.
CFP: ORAHS 2020 special issue
Now available the Call For Paper for the special issue of
Central European Journal of Operations Research connected to the ORAHS 2020.
Here the PDF
of the CFP. Deadline: December 1st, 2020.
CFP: ORAHS 2019 special issue
Now available the Call For Paper for the special issue of Operations Research for Health Care
connected to the ORAHS 2019. Here the
PDF
of the CFP. Click also
here for more details.
ORAHS 2019: CFP and conference website launched
The CFP and the website for the 2019 ORAHS conference are available online
here.
Next ORAHS: 2020 and 2021
The next ORAHS will be held in Wien (AT) and Halifax (CA).
More details here.
ORAHS 2018: conference website launched
The website for the next ORAHS conference is available online
here.
CFP: ORAHS 2016 special issue — extended deadline
The deadline for the ORAHS 2016 special issue has been extended to the 31st of January, 2017. Here the
PDF
of the CFP. Click
here
for more details.
WinterSim
Martin Prodel won the Best Applied Paper award at the 2016 WinterSim conference, with the paper
"Evaluation of Discovered Clinical Pathways Using Process Mining and Joint Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation",
co-authored by Vincent Augusto, Xie Xiaolan, Baptiste Jouaneton, and Ludovic Lamarsalle.
CFP: ORAHS 2016 special issue
Now available the call for paper for the special issue of Operations Research for Health Care
devoted to ORAHS 2016 contributions. Here the
PDF
of the CFP. Click
here
for more details.
Web Site updated
The ORAHS website has been deeply updated. Give a look to our new contents and materials.
ESI XXXI
The second ESI XXXI special issue has been published on
Health Systems.
Web Site updated
The ORAHS website has been deeply updated. Give a look to our new contents and materials.
