Operations Research - Master's degree

Optimization-simulation framework to optimize hospital bed allocation in academic medical centers

Vanden Berg, Andrew M (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

Congestion, overcrowding, and increasing patient wait times are major challenges that many large, academic centers currently face. To address these challenges, hospitals must effectively utilize available beds through ...
Modeling human dynamics and lifestyles using digital traces

Xu, Sharon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

In this thesis, we present algorithms to model and identify shared patterns in human activity with respect to three applications. First, we propose a novel model to characterize the bursty dynamics found in human activity. ...
Applications of healthcare analytics in reducing hospitalization days

Furtado, Jazmin D. (Jazmin Dahl) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

In this thesis, we employ healthcare analytics to inform system-level changes at Massachusetts General Hospital that could lead to a significant reduction in avoidable hospitalization days and improvement in patients ...