Resource allocation in healthcare using a Multi-mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Resumen

Healthcare management has received wide attention from research during the last decades, nowadays this interest in the topic has increased due to the last pandemic by COVID. This milestone made the resources allocation and scheduling problem in this area even worse, especially in those services where there is high permanent demand from patients such as specialized medical procedures for the treatment of serious illness. This latter because of high constraints and preferences because each patient has specific needs, as well as the well-known limited resources (medical facilities, medical personnel, appointment availability, among others) there are in healthcare.