2024

Conférence

International Conference on Control Decision and Information Technology Codit’10, Vallette, Malta, 2721-2726

Home Health Care (HHC) aims to provide medical care and support services directly to patients in their own homes. The demand for HHC services is steadily increasing due to demographic trends, with a growing preference for receiving care in the home. This trend pushes organizations providing home health care services, to optimize their activities in order to meet this increasing demand efficiently. For this purpose, we propose in this work a new bi-level modeling of the problem, that we termed Bi-level Home Health Care Problem Considering Patients Preferences (Bi-HHCPP) aiming to find an efficient solution corresponding to this design. Existing research studies have focused on optimizing the problem considering only one decision-maker that optimizes both routing and scheduling entities imposed by the problem. This paper is the first to shed light on a new bi-level modeling of the problem involving two hierarchical decision entities: (1) a scheduling entity, and (2) a routing one. The proposed model primarily accounts for nurse qualification, travel costs, and patient preferences on visited nurses. Besides, the proposed mathematical formulation of the problem is tested using the CBC (Coin-or Branch and Cut) optimization solver.

@inproceedings{chaabani2024new,
  title={A New Bi-level Modeling for the Home Health Care Problem Considering Patients Preferences},
  author={Chaabani, Abir and Jeddi, Sarra and Said, Lamjed Ben},
  booktitle={2024 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
  pages={2721--2726},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE}
}