German-Dutch meeting on Health Care Management

The meeting is co-organized by the working group on Health Care Management of the German OR Society (GOR e.V.) and CHOIR (Center for Healthcare Operations Improvement & Research, University of Twente).

Dates:	Wednesday 4th March 2026: Informal dinner (own expense) Thursday 5th March 2026: Full day Friday 6th March 2026: Half day until lunch
Location:	Universiteit Twente, Building Technohal, TechMed Centre, Room TL1133 (ground floor), Hallenweg 5, 7522 NH Enschede,
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Information

Program

The full program including abstracts can be downloaded above.

Wednesday, 4th March 2026

19:00

Pre-conference meeting (see details in invitation)

Thursday, 5th March 2026

09:00 – 09:10	Welcome & Opening Remarks by Jens Brunner
09:10 – 09:20	Institutional Greeting / Introductory Address by Richard Boucherie
09:20 – 09:55	Fabian Leuthold, Harold Tiemessen, Katrin Hügel Data-Driven Planning Groups for Simulation-Based Hospital Bed Capacity Planning
09:55 – 10:30	Rob Vromans Improving capacity management in healthcare
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:35	Hossein Torkinezhadirani, Chris Petri, Nina Baumgartner CARE-FLOW: Intelligent data-driven tools for cross-border collaboration in healthcare
11:35 – 12:10	Henriette Thier Scheduling for Stability: Evaluating Proactive Strategies in Nurse Scheduling
12:10 – 13:10	Lunch
13:10 – 14:15	Tour - TechMed Center
14:15 – 14:45	Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:20	Sebastian Schiffels Explainability in Human-AI Collaboration under Information Asymmetry – The Case of Surgical Duration Planning
15:20 – 15:55	Andreas Fügener The Value of Human Input in Data-Driven Surgery Scheduling
15:55 – 16:30	Laura Maria Poreschack Managing the Effort-Value Tradeoff for Integrating Human Judgment into Surgery Duration Predictions
16:30	Working Group Meeting / Networking Session
19:30	Dinner (see details in the invitation)

Friday, 6th March 2026

09:00 – 09:10	Opening Remarks
09:10 – 09:45	Giovanni Campuzano Hierarchical Distribution Networks for Vaccine Delivery: a SOAR Metaheuristic
09:45 – 10:20	Esther Linner Home Health Care Routing with Emergency Requests: Handling Uncertainty with Double Deep Q Learning
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:25	Isabel Wiemer Ensuring Fair Access in Emergency Medical Services: A Bi Objective Covering Location Model
11:25 – 12:00	Nina Baumgartner Reducing Helicopter EMS Cancellations: A Data-Driven Survival Modelling Approach
12:00 – 12:35	Pieter van den Berg Operational challenges in Emergency Service Platforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
12:35 – 13:10	Marieke Rikkert Cooperative solutions for capacity challenges in neonatal care: A case study in the region of Utrecht
13:10 – 13:30	Closing Remarks & Farewell

Registration

Conference fees:

Speakers, individual members of GOR or CHOIR, employees of companies that are corporate members of GOR, employees of the institution where the conference is taking place, or organizing the conference: Free of charge
Students who are not members of GOR of CHOIR: €20
Non-members working at universities: €100 (the fee corresponds to a GOR annual membership fee)
Employees of companies without personal or corporate membership in the GOR: €200.