ORAHS : Operational Research Applied to Health Services

THE ORAHS CONFERENCE:

This year ORAHS will be the ORAHS in the red zone, focused on the organization and reaction of health systems when confronted with emergency situations like the COVID pandemic.

• Hospitals and public authorities: how to react to extreme scenarios rearranging their resources?
• Territorial health systems: how and to what extent complement the hospital system to cope with a pandemic?
• Clinical practice: decision support for diagnosis and treatments, when fighting against a new virus for the first time.

The group has at present more than 340 members from more than 30 countries, mainly in Europe but also from overseas (USA, Canada, Brazil, ...). Membership is open to persons with an interest in applying systematic, quantitative analysis to planning and management problems in the health area.

The objectives of the group are:

• communication of ideas, knowledge and experience concerning the application of OR approaches and methods to problems in the health services area;
• cooperation on the form of mutual assistance between members or on joint projects;
• inspiration with regard to approaches and attitudes in the field of applied OR.