22. Capacity Planning and Leadership Response: A COVID-19 Silver Lining

(Analytics, Innovative Data and Analytics Transformation, Machine Learning/AI — Course Level: Intermediate)

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how quickly the healthcare industry can move when it needs to and has aligned leadership. One area where leaders and organizations have made rapid progress is capacity planning—including beds, mechanical ventilators, personal protective equipment, and staffing—even across traditional organizational boundaries. During this session, you will discover:

• How to identify different types of decision windows.
• Review leadership tools for forecasting and alerting in the context of what we’ve learned so far.
• Evaluate tool options for short term outlier detection.
• Applications of what we may encounter this Fall, Winter, and beyond.