Title :
Studying the utility of tracking systems in improving healthcare workflow
Author :
Elnahrawy, Eiman ; Martin, Richard P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA
fDate :
March 29 2010-April 2 2010
Abstract :
This paper describes tracking experiments we ran in medical settings in order to study the utility of RTLS systems in modeling hospitals workflows in real time. It reports some lessons we learned regarding the density of the tracking landmark deployment as well as the power and mounting of the tracking tags and their effect on the tracking accuracy. It then discusses how we deduced the clinical activities along the workflow from the RTLS tracking data.
Keywords :
health care; hospitals; medical computing; real-time systems; tracking; workflow management software; healthcare workflow; hospitals workflow modeling; medical settings; real-time tracking system; tracking landmark deployment; tracking tags; Cancer; Computer science; Economic indicators; Hardware; Hospitals; Medical services; Power system modeling; Radio access networks; Real time systems; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mannheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6605-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6606-1
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470651
