Building a Smooth Medical Service for Operating Room Using RFID Technologies

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 featur...

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Main Authors: Lun-Ping Hung, Hsin-Ke Lu, Ching-Sheng Wang, Ding-Jung Chiang
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/984721
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-8246d237efce4e65998e9f0f1e264d7c2025-08-20T02:08:27ZengWileyJournal of Applied Mathematics1110-757X1687-00422014-01-01201410.1155/2014/984721984721Building a Smooth Medical Service for Operating Room Using RFID TechnologiesLun-Ping Hung0Hsin-Ke Lu1Ching-Sheng Wang2Ding-Jung Chiang3Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, No. 365, Ming-te Road, Peitou District, Taipei 11219, TaiwanDepartment of Information Management, SCE, Chinese Culture University, 55, Hwa-Kang Road, Yang-Ming-Shan, Taipei 11114, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Aletheia University, No. 32, Zhenli St., Danshui Dist., New Taipei City 25103, TaiwanDepartment of Computer Digital Multimedia Design, Taipei Chengshih University of Science and Technology, No. 2, Xueyuan Rd., Beitou, Taipei 11112, TaiwanDue 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/984721
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