AQFC2015

Optimal Control of an Emergency Room Triage and Treatment Process

 


Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Optimal Control of an Emergency Room Triage and Treatment Process
 
Speaker: Dr Jingui Xie,
Associate Professor in the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
 
Date: March 7, 2014 (Friday)
 
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
 
Venue: Room 513
       William M.W. Mong Engineering Building (ERB)
       (Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)
       The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Short Biography of the speaker:
Jingui Xie is an Associate Professor in the School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China. Prior to that, he was a research fellow in NUS Business School, and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore. He was a Chazen Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research interests focus on stochastic modeling and control. He is now working on queueing models and their applications in healthcare systems.
 
Abstract:
Patient care in many healthcare systems consists of two phases of service: assessment, or triage, and treatment. It is often the case that these phases are carried out by the same medical provider. We consider the question of how to prioritize the work by the medical provider to balance initial delays for care with the need to discharge patients in a timely fashion. We present a two-stage tandem queueing model for the hospital emergency room triage and treatment process. After completing service in the first station, patients may leave the system. Otherwise, they join the second station where they may abandon before receiving treatment. We use a Markov decision process formulation and sample path arguments to determine the optimal dynamic schedule for the medical service provider. (Joint work with Linda Green, Mark Lewis and Gabriel Zayas-Cab an)
 
                      Everyone is invited to attend the talk.
 
The talk will be hosted by:
Prof. Xiting Gong,
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Telephone Number: (852) 3943-8239
 
For general enquiries, please contact the student coordinator:
Andy Chung,
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
 
SEEM-5202 Website: http://seminar.se.cuhk.edu.hk
Date: 
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 08:30 to 09:30