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. The system is criticized for a lack of 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, … 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