Abstract
Owing the scarce resources and increased population it has become quite difficult to the governments, especially those of developing countries to provide quality health services to their citizens. Operations Research (OR) is gaining importance in public health interventions and programmes increasingly both nationally and internationally. As a result of which innovative operations research techniques have been developed for a wide range of healthcare applications such as operating room planning, staff scheduling in different department including emergency department also, breast cancer screening, radiotherapy treatment planning, long term care planning, home healthcare planning etc. Research in healthcare can not only help hospitals in better managing their patients but also in providing better treatment while achieving efficiency in doing so. This paper describes the Optimization Techniques of Operations Research applications in health care with special reference to India.
Keywords: ABC analysis, Hospital management, Simulation methods, N/P hard problem, Resource allocation.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Goutam Saha
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, M.B.B. College, Agartala, Tripura
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v10i1.36
