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Radiation Treatment Machine Capacity Planning at Cancer Care Ontario
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Reference: IVEY-9B15E014-E
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Year: 2012
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Number of pages: 8
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Geographic Setting: Canada
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Publication Date: Jul 7, 2015
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Fecha de edición: Aug 12, 2016
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Source: Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Type of Document: Case
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Industry Setting: Health Care Services;
Description
A planning analyst at Cancer Care Ontario has been tasked to recommend a strategy for allocating new linear accelerator capacity to the province’s cancer treatment centres over a five-year period. Because the introduction of additional capacity requires the investment of capital resources and long implementation timelines, accurate and timely predictions are critical to the treatment of cancer patients. The planning analyst needs to devise an allocation strategy that will ensure quality radiation treatment across the province.
Learning Objective
The case can be used for undergraduate or MBA students in operations management or management science classes, and is also suitable for some engineering courses. This case is suitable for in-class discussion, as an in-class exam or as a take-home project. The objective is: ·To recommend an allocation strategy, students are required to formulate a mixed integer/linear-programming model.