Healthcare Systems Research

IEOR  faculty conduct research impacting different levels of the healthcare system. Current projects include research at the treatment scale (radiation treatment planning and medical robotics), at the individual scale (personalized chronic disease management and addressing food insecurity), at the infrastructure scale (operation room scheduling), and at the national policy scale.

Faculty

Anil Aswani

Associate Professor
Head Undergraduate Advisor

Ken Goldberg

Distinguished Professor

Xin Guo

Professor

Rhonda Righter

Professor
Head Graduate Advisor

Selected Publications

An Optimization-and-Simulation Framework for Redesigning University Campus Bus System with Social Distancing

Gongyu Chen, Xinyu Fei, Huiwen Jia, Xian Yu, Siqian Shen, “The University of Michigan Implements a Hub-and-Spoke Design to Accommodate Social Distancing in the Campus Bus System under COVID Restrictions”, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 52(6):539-552, 2023

A survey on geocoding: algorithms and datasets for toponym resolution

Zhang, Zeyu & Bethard, Steven. (2024). A survey on geocoding: algorithms and datasets for toponym resolution. Language Resources and Evaluation. 1-22. 10.1007/s10579-024-09730-2.

No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy

Bai, Miao & Cui, Ying & Kong, Guangwen & Zhang, Anthony. (2024). No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 26. 10.1287/msom.2022.0514.

No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy and Vaccine Priority. 

Bai, Miao and Cui, Ying and Kong, Guangwen and Zhang, Zhenhuan, No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy and Vaccine Priority (January 10, 2021). University of Connecticut School of Business Research Paper No. 21-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3763514 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3763514

Association of Funding and Meal Preparation Time With Nutritional Quality of Meals of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Recipients

Olfat M, Laraia BA, Aswani AJ. Association of Funding and Meal Preparation Time With Nutritional Quality of Meals of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program RecipientsJAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(6):e2114701. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.14701

Applying machine learning to predict future adherence to physical activity programs

M. Zhou, Y. Fukuoka, K. Goldberg, E. Vittinghoff, and A. Aswani (2019), Applying machine learning to predict future adherence to physical activity programs, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 19: 169.

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Data-driven incentive design in the Medicare Shared Savings Program

Anil Aswani, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Auyon Siddiqui, (2019), Data-Driven Incentive Design in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, INFORMS Operations Research, Vol. 67, No. 4.

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Modeling differentiation-state transitions linked to therapeutic escape in triple-negative breast cancer

Margaret P., Tyler R., Anil A., et.al. “Modeling differentiation-state transitions linked to therapeutic escape in triple-negative breast cancer”. PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006840.

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Feasibility of Reidentifying Individuals in Large National Physical Activity Data Sets From Which Protected Health Information Has Been Removed With Use of Machine Learning

Liangyuan Na, Cong Yang, Chi-Cheng Lo, Fangyuan Zhao, Yoshimi Fukuoka, Anil Aswani. “Feasibility of Reidentifying Individuals in Large National Physical Activity Data Sets From Which Protected Health Information Has Been Removed With Use of Machine Learning”. JAMA Netw Open. 2018;1(8):e186040. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.6040. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2719130

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Learning 2D Surgical Camera Motion From Demonstrations

Learning 2D Surgical Camera Motion From Demonstrations. Jessica J. Ji, Sanjay Krishnan, Vatsal Patel, Danyal Fer, Ken Goldberg. IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Munich, Germany, August 2018.

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