Digital Triage Assistant

Author

Abt, C. ; Backeris, P. ; Bhargava, M. ; Ennist, L. ; Garofalo, R. ; Husain, S. ; Jakimaviciute, V. ; Shevach, G.

Author_Institution

Stevens Inst. of Technol., Hoboken, NJ, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A portable and automated vital sign data acquisition device and triage information system has been devised to improve the efficacy and efficiency of the triage process in hospital Emergency Departments. The system is comprised of: 1) a microcontroller-based data-acquisition device 2) off-the-shelf and proprietary sensor components 3) a PDA with barcode scanner 4) a networked patient information database.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; microcontrollers; sensors; automated vital sign data acquisition device; barcode scanner; digital triage assistant; hospital emergency departments; microcontroller-based data-acquisition device; networked patient information database; off-the-shelf sensor component; portable vital sign data acquisition device; proprietary sensor component; triage information system; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Current measurement; Data acquisition; Databases; Displays; Hospitals; Microcontrollers; Personal digital assistants; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 36th Annual Northeast

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6879-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2010.5458201

Filename

5458201