4 research idea notes tagged “healthcare”. Read them as Markdown, JSON or an Atom feed.
Home health care, nurse scheduling and workforce scheduling appear on only 15 recent papers in the operations research and AI journals. Ageing countries are moving care from hospitals and nursing homes into homes, which turns nurses into a vehicle fleet. How much travel and overtime can better routing save, and do the plans respect continuity of care?
Papers in the last 30 days — nurse scheduling: 1 · home health care: 1
Vaccine distribution, allocation, uptake and hesitancy appear on 55 recent papers, and 18 of them, mostly in operations research, carry a supply-chain or allocation keyword. The COVID-19 roll-out produced data on who got vaccinated when, and at what cost. What did the allocation models get right, and what would they change for next time?
Papers in the last 30 days — vaccine allocation: 1 · vaccine hesitancy: 1
Operating room scheduling and planning appear on 16 recent papers in the operations research journals, among 52 surgery-related papers, most of which are AI work on surgical images. Hospitals rarely implement the optimized schedules. What stops them, and do the schedules survive surgeons' preferences and emergencies?
Papers in the last 30 days — operating room scheduling: 1
Emergency medical services, ambulance dispatch and emergency departments appear on 28 recent papers across the operations research, AI and economics journals, with 8 in the last quarter against about 6 per quarter before. Response times are rising in many countries as hospitals block ambulances at the door. Which dispatch and triage changes save lives, and which only move the queue?
Papers in the last 30 days — emergency medical services: 2 · ambulance dispatch: 1
Scholar4AI. (2026). Research ideas tagged “healthcare”. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/healthcare
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {Research ideas tagged “healthcare”},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/tags/healthcare}},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}