Operations research

Issue title: Engineering the System of Healthcare Delivery

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Pierskalla, William P.

Affiliations: E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: In Evita, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote: Politics, the Art of the Possible. To those of us in the operations research community, we postulate: Operations Research, the Science of Better – (i.e. better processes, better systems and better decisions). Using our own and other scientific, engineering, mathematical, and social sciences methodologies, operations researchers help decision makers make better decisions; decisions leading to improvements: greater quality, lower costs, greater revenues, better access, better scheduling, lower risks, more satisfaction – with the goal of always striving for the best or optimal decisions.

DOI: 10.3233/IKS-2009-0152

Journal: Information Knowledge Systems Management, vol. 8, no. 1-4, pp. 241-276, 2009