WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2008 – Seeking new policy tools to tackle major problems in health care will be the subject of a major speech and panel held three weeks before the U.S. Presidential election at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).
The entire series, “Doing Good with Good O.R.” (operations research) will take place in Washington, D.C. at the Marriott Waldman Park Hotel and Omni Shoreham Hotel. It will be held on October 14 and 15. Information is at www.informs.org.
The plenary speaker for the session is Dr. Steven B. Cohen, Director of the Director, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Operations research, which is associated with techniques like business intelligence and analytics, is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. Information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.
Health Policy
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Plenary: 3:10pm-4:00pm
Panel Discussion: 4:30pm-6:00pm
Plenary speaker: Dr. Cohen
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Margaret L. Brandeau, Professor of Management Science and Engineering, and Professor of Medicine (by Courtesy), Stanford University
Panelists:
• Dr. Cohen
• Peter Hartsock, Research Scientist Officer, National Institute on Drug Abuse
About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.
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