Title :
Patient-Centric Healthcare
Abstract :
Changing demographics and the trend to chronic disease management is driving the need for patient centric healthcare in the hospital and the community. In the hospital, wireless technologies will be found everywhere tracking people, assets, and patient flow. Wifi tags will capture patient flow data in a 100% wireless infrastructure allowing business & clinical decisions on diagnosis to be made in real-time. Multiple healthcare information technologies will be integrated. Clinicians will have access to vital signs and alarm history events as the patient is transferred between hospital departments, enabling them to make confident decisions at any stage. Remote Patient Monitoring and Body Sensor Networks will allow to manage patients in the community.
Keywords :
body sensor networks; health care; medical information systems; patient care; patient diagnosis; patient monitoring; telemedicine; alarm history events; body sensor networks; chronic disease management; hospital departments; multiple healthcare information technology; patient diagnosis; patient flow; patient-centric healthcare; remote patient monitoring; wireless technology;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Electrical Devices and Technology, 2007. MEDTECH 2007. 2007 3rd Institution of Engineering and technology International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-0-86341-845-7
