Opening Workshop, Data-Driven Decisions in Healthcare – August 26-29, 2012

Location

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.

Description

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 and Supporting Media

Sunday, August 26, 2012
Radisson RTP

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
9:15-9:45 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    
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

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-8:30 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
Data-Driven Medical Decision Making of Chronic Disease Patients
Discussant:		 Julie Simmons Ivy, North Carolina State University
Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan
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
Nonparametric Preprocessing for Head-to-Head OCER* Predictions
Discussant:		 David Madigan, Columbia University
Robert Obenchain, Risk Benefit Analysis
Stanley Young, NISS		  
 
 
4:30-5:30 Participatory Session: Poster Advertisements
5:30-7:30 Reception and Poster Session

Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Radisson RTP

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Technical Session: Patient Flow
Staffing to Stabilize Customer Delays in Service Systems with Time-Varying Arrivals
ICU Congestion: The Impact on Patient Flows		 Yunan Liu, North Carolina State University
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
Discussant:		 Jim Dai, Cornell University and Georgia Tech
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
Ranking Providers for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Discussant:		 Constantine Gatsonis, Brown University
William Shannon, Washington University
Myron Katzoff		  
 
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:30 Participatory Session: Open Mike Session

Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Radisson RTP

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-8:30 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
Discussant:		 Patrick Ryan, OMOP
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