Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room

Dorothy Curtis; Eugene Shih; Jason Waterman; John Guttag; Jacob M. Bailey; Thomas Stair; Robert A.  Greenes; Lucila Ohno-Machado

3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks

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Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2968,
    author={Dorothy Curtis and Eugene Shih and Jason Waterman and John Guttag and Jacob M. Bailey and Thomas Stair and Robert A.  Greenes and Lucila Ohno-Machado},
    title={Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Physiological signal monitoring sensor network},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2968}
}

Dorothy Curtis
Eugene Shih
Jason Waterman
John Guttag
Jacob M. Bailey
Thomas Stair
Robert A. Greenes
Lucila Ohno-Machado
Year: 2010
Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room
BODYNETS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2968

Dorothy Curtis¹^,*, Eugene Shih¹^,*, Jason Waterman¹^,*, John Guttag¹^,*, Jacob M. Bailey²^,*, Thomas Stair²^,*, Robert A. Greenes³^,*, Lucila Ohno-Machado⁴^,*

1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL, Cambridge, MA, USA 1-617-253-0541
2: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Emergency Department, Boston, MA, USA
3: Arizona State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Phoenix, AZ USA
4: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Decision Systems Group, Boston, MA, USA

*Contact email: dcurtis@csail.mit.edu, eugene@csail.mit.edu, jwaterman@csail.mit.edu, guttag@mit.edu, jacob.m.bailey@gmail.com, tstair@partners.org, greenes@asu.edu, machado@dsg.harvard.edu

Abstract

The Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology (SMART) System was developed to monitor physiological signals from patients in the waiting areas of an emergency department. The system monitors the SpO2 (oxygenation level in the blood), ECG (electrical activity of the heart) and the location of multiple patients wirelessly. It is currently deployed at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. This paper describes the overall architecture, the sensors used, challenges in deploying this technology in a hospital and the degree of patient acceptance. Some sections of this article are based on an article first published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (J Am Med Inform Assn: 2008; 1) [7].

Keywords: Physiological signal monitoring sensor network

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.BODYNETS2008.2968

Physiological Signal Monitoring in the Waiting Areas of an Emergency Room

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