Healthcare at home facility location-allocation problem

Xiaolan Xie (1, 2, 3) , Vincent Augusto (1, 2, 3) , Fernando Rodriguez-Verjan Carlos (1, 2, 3) , Thierry Garaix (1, 2, 3)

1 IFRESIS - Institut Fédératif de Recherche en Sciences et Ingénierie de la Santé
2 CIS-ENSMSE - Centre Ingénierie et Santé
3 I4S-ENSMSE - Ingénierie des systèmes de soins et des services de santé

This article presents a multi-period location-allocation model for healthcare at home (HAH). Several decisions are addressed: location of facilities, assignment of demand to HAH companies, authorization for delivering some specific cares and allocation of resources. This problem is NP-Hard problem but can be solved with standard solvers for instances of medium size. We show by numerical experiments how to adapt a HAH network to face change of demands in time and in geographic distribution.

Mots clés: Health care at home; HAH

Domaines: Génie des procédés; Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Xiaolan Xie, Vincent Augusto, Fernando Rodriguez-Verjan Carlos, Thierry Garaix. Healthcare at home facility location-allocation problem. INFORMS 2012 International Conference, Jun 2012, Pékin (Beijing), China. ⟨hal-00777604⟩