Optimal Relocation of Medical Procedures Under the Covid-19 Regime: an Urology Case Study

We present a prototype system, OptiLoc, that aims at analysing consequences of medical capacity restrictions under the Covid-19 regime as well as at providing medical analysts and decision makers with medical procedure relocation plans for a given area in a given time period. This is achieved by first forecasting the demand of medical procedures of different types at the selected geographical granularity level and then finding relocations which are optimal according to a well defined objective function that takes into account procedure and relocation costs, under constraints imposed by Covid-19 restrictions and hospital capacities. Allocation plans are visualized in a user friendly web-based application. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed system on the data on urological procedures from Poland.