Renata A. Konrad

Select, Route and Schedule: Optimizing Community Paramedicine Service Delivery with Mandatory Visits and Patient Prioritization

  • Shima Azizi
  • Brenton Faber
  • Sharon Johnson
  • Renata A. Konrad
  • Andrew C. Trapp
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences Tags , , , ,

    Healthcare delivery in the United States has been characterized as overly reactive and dependent on emergency department care for safety net coverage, with opportunity for improvement around discharge planning and high readmissions and emergency department bounce-back rates. Community paramedicine is a recent healthcare innovation that enables proactive visitation of patients at home, often shortly after … Read more

    Finding Diverse Solutions of High Quality to Binary Integer Programs

  • Renata A. Konrad
  • Andrew C. Trapp
    • Categories 0-1 Programming, Multi-Criteria Optimization, Nonlinear Optimization

    Typical output from an optimization solver is a single optimal solution. At the same time, a set of high-quality and diverse solutions could be beneficial in a variety of contexts, for example problems involving imperfect information, or those for which the structure of high-quality solution vectors can reveal meaningful insights. In view of this, we … Read more