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A New Framework to Develop Healthcare Decision Support Systems in the Military Context

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In this paper, we propose a new framework that stimulates quantitative analysts, domain experts, and decision makers to work together in a military setting for the development of healthcare decision support systems. Our study case is the Brazilian Navy health system whose challenges are analyzed as complex societal problems.

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Collazo, R.A., Pessôa, L.A.M., de Almeida, N.N. (2020). A New Framework to Develop Healthcare Decision Support Systems in the Military Context. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_19

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