1st International ICST Workshop on Location Based Services for Health Care

Research Article

Emergency Care Management with Location-Aware Services

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361700,
    author={Shih-wei  Lee and Shao-you  Cheng and Jane Yung-jen  Hsu and Polly  Huang and Chuang-wen  You},
    title={Emergency Care Management with Location-Aware Services},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Location Based Services for Health Care},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={LOCARE},
    year={2007},
    month={5},
    keywords={Active RFID tags  Computer science  Disaster management  Engineering management  Global Positioning System  Hospitals  Indoor environments  Medical services  Radiofrequency identification  Technology management},
    doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361700}
}
  • Shih-wei Lee
    Shao-you Cheng
    Jane Yung-jen Hsu
    Polly Huang
    Chuang-wen You
    Year: 2007
    Emergency Care Management with Location-Aware Services
    LOCARE
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361700
Shih-wei Lee1,*, Shao-you Cheng1,*, Jane Yung-jen Hsu1,*, Polly Huang2,*, Chuang-wen You1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 2: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
*Contact email: r94094@csie.ntu.edu.tw, r93070@csie.ntu.edu.tw, yjhsu@csie.ntu.edu.tw, phuang@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw, f91023@csie.ntu.edu.tw

Abstract

As indoor localization technologies become more affordable and sophisticated. An emerging market has yet to be realized commercially in the indoor environment. We think that the first adopter will arise from the healthcare domain where the need is the most critical. Thus, we aim to implement a set of location-aware services to assist in the management of the emergency department. We apply NTU Taroko, an active RFID module for to real time location tracking on patients, hospital assets, and medical staffs. In addition, we integrate context-aware system proactively to infer event notifications for reminding physicians and nurses. With the proposed system, we can shorten the process of emergency visit effectively and improve the quality of emergency care

Keywords
Active RFID tags Computer science Disaster management Engineering management Global Positioning System Hospitals Indoor environments Medical services Radiofrequency identification Technology management
Published
2007-05-21
Publisher
IEEE
Modified
2011-11-08
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361700
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