Adaptive operating room (OR) scheduling and control

McCaig Tower, as one of the largest sites of Foothills Medical Centre, provides the world’s

safest and most accurate surgeries to patients, and a SmarTrack system, an interactive

patient tracking system, helps the operating room (OR) management. However, due to the

dependence of ORs on pre-operative preparations and post-operative capacities, the

disturbances that come from patients and ORs themselves, and the lack of integration of

healthcare systems with IE and MSc, the OR management in McCaig Tower is faced with

difficulties in handling exceptions. Consequently, only manual adaptive control can be carried

out by experienced nurses or directives for peri-operative (peri-op) activities. Such manual

adaptive peri-op control is based on priority rules (some informal) and is not efficient in most

cases, because of the limitation of information sharing for decision making. This project is to

develop and implement OR scheduling and adaptive peri-op control to improve the response

time and efficiency in the management/scheduling of ORs in McCaig Tower.

Faculty Supervisor:

Barrie Nault

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Health Services;Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration; Retail trade

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

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