A mobile e-health system based on workflow automation tools

Author

Pappas, Christodulos ; Coscia, Eva ; Dodero, Gabriella ; Gianuzzi, Vittoria ; Earney, Mark

Author_Institution

Relational Technol. S.A., Athens, Greece

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

276

Abstract

This paper describes the patient record manager and the workflow toolset of the wireless-based e-health system Ward-In-Hand, developed in a European IST (Information Society Technologies) project and currently in use within three hospital wards, in Italy, Spain and Germany. The lack of homogeneity in the healthcare organisations required a suitable implementation of workflow automation tools to create and manage the execution of the care-giving processes, customising them to local ward needs. Solutions for this problem, as well as the integration of the workflow organiser (to be used by individual health professionals during their daily activities) with the patient record manager are discussed.

Keywords

health care; integrated software; medical information systems; mobile computing; records management; research initiatives; workflow management software; Germany; IST project; Information Society Technologies; Italy; Spain; Ward-In-Hand; care-giving processes; health professionals; healthcare organisations; hospital wards; local ward needs; mobile electronic health system; patient record manager; wireless-based system; workflow automation tools; workflow organiser integration; Automation; Collaborative tools; Databases; Drugs; Health information management; Hospitals; Medical services; Personnel; Project management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2002. (CBMS 2002). Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1614-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2002.1011388

Filename

1011388