Managing Access to Care: The Role of Modeling, Analytics, and Ethics

The COVID19 pandemic has dramatically altered the way we live in large part to mitigate the large imbalance between demand and supply for healthcare resources. Even in non-pandemic times, we operate in a world with resource constraints. Unfortunately, this means that clinicians have and will continue to be faced with challenging decisions about the how to manage access to care in a resource limited environment.

Join a conversation between Prof. Carri W. Chan, an expert in healthcare operations management, and Dr. Katherine Fischkoff, a surgeon and clinical ethicist, on how operational efficiency, clinical outcomes, and ethical considerations intersect in such an environment. They will discuss how mathematical modeling and data analytics can and have helped guide such decisions during COVID19 and beyond as well as how algorithms and guidelines have to be adapted to incorporate fairness, patient autonomy, and other ethical considerations.