Citation
(2010), "Call for participation - Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care VI*", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2010.06739aac.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Call for participation - Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care VI*
Article Type: Special announcements From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 1
This conference will take place from 29-31 March 2010 at Mary Ward House, London.
Health and Social Care systems are undergoing major changes worldwide, due in part to changes in demography and in part to increased competition between parts of the system whether they are hospitals, primary care trusts, or general practitioners. Yet running health and social care systems efficiently and effectively is crucial to improving or even maintaining our quality of life. Over the years, extensive research has been conducted to find immediate and long-term solutions to issues that are routinely faced by health and social care management professionals, such as waiting lists and bed capacity, hospital redesign, workforce planning and scheduling, patient flow modelling, performance management, disease monitoring and health care technology assessment. Simulation and modelling techniques (statistical analysis, stochastic processes, queuing theory, mathematical programming, heuristics, discrete event simulation, system dynamics, etc.) have been shown to be increasingly valuable in providing useful information to aid planning and management.
The aim of the conference is to bring together health care managers, clinicians, management consultants and mathematicians, operational researchers, statisticians, economists, computer scientists, etc. from across the world with a view to bridging the gap between the communities and to exploring recent developments and identifying fruitful avenues for further research.
Keynote speakers
The keynote talks will be given by health services leaders as well as prominent academics involved in health operational research. Confirmed invited speakers include: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh (NHS Medical Director), Professor William Pierskella (UCLA Anderson School of Management, USA), Dr David Worthington (Lancaster University Management School), Dr Kat Sylvester (Clinical Systems Improvement).
For more details of this conference, please contact: Tel. +11(0) 1702 356104, e-mail: amy.marsh@ima.uk or visit web site: www.ipia.org.uk
Note
*Submission of papers was called in 20 December 2009 and authors notified in 31 January 2010.