Partnerships
Operations Research Offers Solution to Staff Scheduling Challenges at BC Cancer Agency
Sauder and the BCCA collaborate on Radiation Therapy
New System Reduces Waitlisting for Chemotherapy
Sauder Prof. Martin Puterman has won an award for innovation.
Sauder Grads Apply Skills to Spinal Cord Project
Bridging the health care industry with the world of operations research can be challenging – but there is nothing that recent Sauder School of Business graduates Rachel Lewis and Argelio Santos welcome more.
“Working in health care in operations research is about giving people the tools they need to make decisions and even though we are not dealing with the lives of patients directly, our work will impact them,” says Santos.
Health Care and Business Concepts Linked in Collaborative Nursing Study
Can you remember a time when a health care provider went beyond the call of duty? Maybe a nurse spent extra time getting to know you or held your hand during a difficult time. In health care, this is known as patient-centred care. Dr. Daniel Skarlicki, Edgar F. Kaiser Chair of Organizational Behaviour and professor [...]
Operations Research Project puts New Tool for Survival Analysis in Surgeon’s Hands
In the life and death world of transplant survival prediction, surgeons need easy access to a variety of information about both an organ donor and potential recipients to make accurate decisions about patient risk and organ allocation. Yet, interpreting the complex statistics and math models that present these data can challenge the most expert physician, [...]
Patient focus in ACU research study could help cut wait time by 70 %
Dr. Martin L. Puterman, Research Director of the CHCM and Professor of Operations Research at the Sauder School of Business, knows that protecting the human face of health care – the patient – can be one of the biggest challenges managers face in improving efficiencies. So when the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA) approached Dr. Puterman, [...]
CIHR Team in Operations Research for Improved Cancer Care
This research team brings together a novel group of researchers, clinicians and managers from the Centre for Health Care Management at the Sauder School of Business, UBC and the Provincial Radiation Therapy Program at the BC Cancer Agency to address a key concern of Canadians– providing timely access to quality cancer care. The goal of [...]
Centre for Operations Excellence / CHCM Projects
Many projects are conjointly lead and executed by groups individuals who belong to the University, to the health care industry, and/or to both. The Centre for Operations Excellence (COE) and the UBC Centre for Health Care Management work closely on many projects: Booking and Scheduling Improvement at BC Children’s Hospital – Radiology (2008) An Evaluation [...]
Page 1 of 11
