Analytics magazine editor Pete Horner describes what is in the July/August issue.
Analytics-powered command centers have revolutionized performance at two great organizations by helping caregivers and patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And the work has only just begun.
Will the DOJ’s decision not to defend the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if it is challenged in court negatively impact the healthcare analytics market, especially in the insurance sector? The jury is still out.
INFORMS recently launched the Recognition and Development Department to promote charitable giving opportunities to support the profession, INFORMS programs, the robust INFORMS awards program, as well as a new focus on scholarship opportunities. This new initiative invites INFORMS members to designate donations to support existing INFORMS awards and programs, as well as identify and cultivate new award and scholarship opportunities.
In this episode of the “Five-Minute Analyst,” we survey four of the sleuthing world’s preeminent detectives, culminating in the master himself, Sherlock Holmes, as depicted on PBS shows.
The 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle had more than 7,300 attendees (an all-time record and about a thousand more than the previous high) who collectively made 1,550 presentations held in nearly 100 tracks over four days. Add to that an event chock full of business meetings, receptions, poster and tutorial sessions, a career fair, vendor booths, endless networking opportunities and countless other associated activities and you have the Greatest O.R. and Analytics Show on Earth.
I recently read a wonderful essay by the writer Pico Iyer entitled “The Beauty of the Ordinary” [1]. This lovely piece invites us to pay attention to the little things that we too often take for granted. Sharing a bit of his own life’s story, which has taken him from England to the United States and finally to Japan, he deftly uses the metaphor of the fading light of autumn to illuminate his broader points. Since reading this article, I have been careful to take notice of things that ordinarily sail right past me – and have frequently found myself surprised as a result.
In the last few articles I tried to put the spotlight on new developments in healthcare around the world. As we are getting closer to the end of 2019, I am energized to see positive movements in the healthcare analytics and health information technology space continuing worldwide. Let’s look at what is happening at home first.
I frequently tell my colleagues and friends that working in operations research is very much like traveling by hot air balloon; you know you are going somewhere, but generally, you have no idea where that is when you start. You have to just get aloft and see where the winds – made up of equal parts creativity and data – take you. That’s precisely the story you are going to read today.
The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of dynamic systems modeling and simulation. WSC 2019 “Simulation for Risk Management” will be held Dec. 8-11 at Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center in National Harbor, Md.
