Pervasive Communications for Care Professionals in Hospitals

Author

Chiang, Chih-Yen ; Lin, Po-Yen ; Huang, Chih-Ning ; Chou, Yi-Chieh ; Chu, Woei-Chyn ; Chan, Chia-Tai ; Wang, Pi-Chung

Author_Institution

Inst. of Biomed. Eng., Nat. Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1351

Lastpage

1354

Abstract

It has been demonstrated that effective communications among specialists is essential in the delivery of high quality of patient care. A location-enabled VoWLAN service may further bring seamless connections for medical professionals to communicate and collaborate with each other efficiently. It greatly assists the locating relative professionals in hospital urgencies and delivering critical information to specific professionals. In this article, we proposed an enhanced Hospital Patient Care Call System (EHPC2S), which converges the voice and context information for the purpose of reducing medical errors and providing better hospital quality of service.

Keywords

patient care; patient diagnosis; telemedicine; wireless LAN; care professionals; hospital patient care call system; location-enabled VoWLAN service; pervasive communication; voice over WLAN; Biomedical equipment; Communication effectiveness; Context; Costs; Hospitals; Medical services; Mobile radio mobility management; Quality of service; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1747-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1748-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2008.667

Filename

4535547