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Building a Smooth Medical Service for Operating Room Using RFID Technologies

Building a Smooth Medical Service for Operating Room Using RFID Technologies

Authors :
Lun-Ping Hung
Hsin-Ke Lu
Ching-Sheng Wang
Ding-Jung Chiang
Source :
Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol 2014 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Hindawi Limited, 2014.

Abstract

Due to the information technology advancement, the feasibility for the establishment of mobile medical environments has been strengthened. Using RFID to facilitate the tracing of patients’ mobile position in hospital has attracted more attentions from researchers due to the demand on advanced features. Traditionally, the management of surgical treatment is generally manually operated and there is no consistent operating procedure for patients transferring among wards, surgery waiting rooms, operating rooms, and recovery rooms, resulting in panicky and urgent transferring work among departments and, thus, leading to delays and errors. In this paper, we propose a new framework using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for a mobilized surgical process monitoring system. Through the active tag, an application management system used before, during, and after the surgical processes has been proposed. The concept of signal level matrix, SLM, was proposed to accurately identify patients and dynamically track patients’ location. By updating patient’s information real-time, the preprocessing time needed for various tasks and incomplete transfers among departments can be reduced, the medical resources can be effectively used, unnecessary medical disputes can be reduced, and more comprehensive health care environment can be provided. The feasibility and effectiveness of our proposed system are demonstrated with a number of experimental results.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics
QA1-939

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1110757X and 16870042
Volume :
2014
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Journal of Applied Mathematics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.8246d237efce4e65998e9f0f1e264d7c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/984721