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Decision Support for Allocating Scarce Drugs

Author(s) -

Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

informs journal on applied analytics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.662

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1526-551X

pISSN - 0092-2102

DOI - 10.1287/inte.33.2.1.14472

Subject(s) - operations research , lawsuit , equity (law) , decision process , decision support system , settlement (finance) , heuristic , business , actuarial science , operations management , computer science , economics , engineering , finance , process management , political science , law , artificial intelligence , payment

The 1998 settlement of a lawsuit by the state of California required 19 pharmaceutical firms to provide $150 million worth of drugs free of charge to more than 150 California clinics and hospitals over a three-year period. We developed a decision-support system that utilizes a multiobjective optimization model and a heuristic solution taking into account the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of the drug-allocation process. As of November 2002, 90 percent of the total budget has been distributed to the various clinics with the help of this decision-support system.

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