Opening Workshop, Data-Driven Decisions in Healthcare – August 26-29, 2012
Workshop Information
August 26, 2012 - 9:15am - August 29, 2012 - 3:00pm
Registration for this workshop is currently closed.
General Information
The Opening Workshop for this program was held Sunday-Wednesday, August 26-29, 2012, at the Radisson Hotel Research Triangle Park, NC. The hotel is in close proximity to SAMSI.
On Sunday, August 26, there were tutorials and expository lectures by leading researchers. From Monday to Wednesday, invited speakers and panelists addressed specific research topics relevant to Working Groups in the program, which were formed on Wednesday, August 29. A poster session and reception took place on Monday, August 27.
Immediately following the workshop, on Thursday and Friday, the Working Groups convened at SAMSI. In these meetings each working group identified initial research activities and relevant datasets for the program year.
The Opening Workshop focused on theory, methodology, practice and policy relevant to the two main thrusts:
- Operations Research Modeling (ORM), with particular emphasis on resource allocation. The depth of interest in healthcare in the operations research community is enormous. Meeting programs of INFORMS, the principal society, contain dozens of sessions on healthcare topics
- Health Outcomes Research, including Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), observational studies and predictive modeling.
Schedule
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Radisson RTP
| 9:15-9:45 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45-10:00 | Welcome and Introduction Alan Karr, NISS |
| 10:00-11:15 | Tutorial: Comparative Effectiveness Research: An Overview and Some Methodological Challenges Marianthi Markatou, IBM VIDEO |
| 11:15-11:30 | Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Tutorial Cont’d: Comparative Effectiveness Research: An Overview and Some Methodological Challenges Marianthi Markatou, IBM |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:45 | Tutorial: Data-Based Service Networks: A Research Framework for Asymptotic Inference, Analysis and Control of Service Systems Avi Mandelbaum, Technion VIDEO |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break |
| 3:00-4:00 | Tutorial Cont’d: Data-Based Service Networks: A Research Framework for Asymptotic Inference, Analysis and Control of Service Systems Avi Mandelbaum, Technion |
Monday, August 27, 2012
Radisson RTP
| 8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome and Introduction Alan Karr, NISS |
| 8:45-9:45 | Keynote: Connections Between OR and CER Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois |
| 9:45-10:00 | Break |
| 10:00-12:00 | Technical Session: Screening and Treatment of Chronic Diseases Can We Do Better than “One Size Fits All”?: OR Models for Screening and Treatment Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University Data-Driven Medical Decision Making of Chronic Disease Patients Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan Discussant: Turgay Ayer, Georgia Tech |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:30 | Technical Session: Valid Prediction from Medical Observational Data A Predictivist Approach to Observational Analyses in Healthcare David Madigan, Columbia University Nonparametric Preprocessing for Head-to-Head OCER* Predictions Robert Obenchain, Risk Benefit Analysis Discussant: Stanley Young, NISS |
| 4:30-5:30 | Participatory Session: Poster Advertisements |
| 5:30-7:30 | Reception and Poster Session SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches. |
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Radisson RTP
| 8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 | Technical Session: Patient Flow Staffing to Stabilize Customer Delays in Service Systems with Time-Varying Arrivals Yunan Liu, North Carolina State University ICU Congestion: The Impact on Patient Flows Carri Chan, Columbia University |
| 10:00-10:15 | Break |
| 10:15-12:00 | Technical Session Cont’d: Patient Flow Mathematical Models for Hospital Inpatient Flow Management Jim Dai, Cornell University and Georgia Tech Discussant: Guodong Pang, Pennsylvania State University |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:15 | Technical Session: Healthcare CER CER Visions and Realities: A Methodologic Perspective Constantine Gatsonis, Brown University Ranking Providers for Comparative Effectiveness Research William Shannon, Washington University Discussant: Myron Katzoff |
| 4:15-4:30 | Break |
| 4:30-5:30 | Participatory Session: Open Mike Session |
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Radisson RTP
| 8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-10:00 | Technical Session: OMOP Research and Data Lessons from the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership: Opportunities for Exploring Healthcare Databases to Study the Effects of Medical Products Patrick Ryan, OMOP Discussant: Alan Menius, GlaxoSmithKline |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Panel Discussion: Research Priorities for the DDDHC Program Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois Avi Mandelbaum, Technion Marianthi Markatou, IBM Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-3:00 | Open Discussion: Proprosals for Working Groups and Working Group Formation and Initial Meetings |