A simulation study of RFID system for improving patient discharge process in a hospital

Author

Shim, Sung J. ; Kumar, Ajit ; Jiao, Jianxin Roger

Author_Institution

Stillman Sch. of Bus., Seton Hall Univ., Orange, NJ, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

15-17 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

436

Lastpage

440

Abstract

A hospital in Singapore considers deploying radio-frequency identification (RFID) system and setting up a new discharge lounge to improve the patient discharge process. This study uses computer simulation in modeling and comparing the current process without the RFID system and the discharge lounge and the new process with the RFID system and the discharge lounge, and assesses the impact of the RFID system and the discharge lounge on the process in terms of resource utilization and times taken in the process. The results could prove helpful to those who consider deploying RFID system for the patient discharge process in hospitals or other similar processes.

Keywords

hospitals; medical information systems; radiofrequency identification; RFID system; computer simulation; discharge lounge; hospital; patient discharge process; radio-frequency identification system; resource utilization; Business; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Discharges (electric); Hospitals; Radiofrequency identification; RFID; hospital; patient discharge; simulation; tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems and Informatics (ICSAI), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5457-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSAI.2014.7009328

Filename

7009328