Designing a Healthcare Computer Aided Facility Management System: A New Approach

Iadanza, Ernesto; Luschi, Alessio; Gusinu, Roberto; Terzaghi, Filippo

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17971-7_61

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“…This is particularly important in the context of modern hospitals due to structural, technological and organizational requirements. Iadanza et al (2019) have postulated that computer-aided FM is essential to meet the advances in clinical and medical practices. This could possibly be a next step of interest for FM performance as FM develops over time in Ghana.…”

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“…By contrast, Zulkarnain et al (2011) advocated for the BSC as the basis for KPIs in building performance measurement. Iadanza et al (2019) have hinted on the strengthening of ICT application through computer-aided FM for healthcare building and asset management, whereas Pitt and Tucker (2008) are of the view that FM performance should be driven by the desire to innovate, learning and growth. Shohet and Nobil (2017), however, developed more quantifiable building indicators and empirically tested the indicators.…”

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Developing key performance indicators for hospital facilities management services: a developing country perspective

Amos

Au-Yong

Musa

2020

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PurposeKey performance indicators (KPIs) help to monitor performance, thereby revealing the gap between planned and executed results relative to organizational objectives. The purpose of this paper is to develop KPIs for performance measurement of facilities management (FM) services in public hospitals.Design/methodology/approachFollowing a comprehensive literature review of KPIs in FM, a set of KPIs were first selected. This was then subjected to content validation by experts. Thereafter a questionnaire survey was conducted to identify participants perception on the level of importance of the proposed KPIs. The main analytical tool used was SPSS factor analysis/principal component extraction.FindingsAdapting an expanded balanced scorecard typology, the paper identifies 17 KPIs, which are useful for performance improvement of FM. The study also introduces new financial dimensions beyond the traditional cost and profit-centered metrics.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was limited to three FM services. Although the results of the Kruskal–Wallis test shows no significant difference in the level of importance on more than 80% of the indicators, larger sample is required in future studies to examine indicator preference for the respective services. An empirical study to test the proposed indicators to measure FM performance could also be a next step.Originality/valueThe paper presents the first step to develop performance indicators, which are of relevance to FM performance measurement and could be utilized to improve performance. The indicators are largely generic and can easily be adapted by other FM service sectors for performance measurement.

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Developing key performance indicators for hospital facilities management services: a developing country perspective

Amos

Au-Yong

Musa

2020

ECAM

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“…In the example the results for keywords "cardiology outpatient" are displayed Units or Departments from one location to a new on. The hospital is visualized in terms of functional organisation rather than spatial, where each cell is a single OU, grouped by level and building in a matrix shaped layout [32]. -BED MANAGEMENT system is a designed module which provides the real time picture of the beds availability for a given ward, analysing the interactions between patients, admission status, housekeeping staff and physicians, lowering the length of stay and the cost of care [33].…”

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An integrated custom decision-support computer aided facility management informative system for healthcare facilities and analysis

Iadanza

Luschi

2019

Health Technol.

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This article presents a Computer Aided Facility Management informative system which can output Key Performance Indicators and quantitative parameters about the analysed healthcare facility. The designed system is a self-sufficient application able to manage and analyse digital plans of hospital buildings with no need of third-party plugins or licenses. The system maps hospital’s inner organisation, destinations of use and environmental comforts giving quantitative, qualitative and graphical reports. The core database is linked to other existing hospital databases, so that the system can act as a central control cockpit. Outputs can be used by top-management and decisional staff as a decision-support tool in order to improve hospital’s structure and organisation and to reduce the major workflow risks. Furthermore, many plug-ins and modules have been developed through the years which can be easily linked to the main application thanks to its REST architecture, and which contribute to a complete analysis and management of the healthcare facilities.

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“…This prevents to rely on a single technology, increasing the level of accuracy, reducing possible system failures, and being more adaptable to different environments. Finally, the system is able to communicate with the hospital’s Computer-Aided Facility Management software (CAFM) [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], which allows the application to retrieve dynamic up-to-date destination location information instead of being based on static pre-configured fingerprinting, such as the majority of the analysed solutions.…”

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Designing and developing a mobile application for indoor real-time positioning and navigation in healthcare facilities

Luschi

Villa

Gherardelli

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BACKGROUND: Navigation portable applications have largely grown during the last years. However, the majority of them works just for outdoor positioning and routing, due to their architecture based upon Global Positioning System signals. Real-Time Positioning System intended to provide position estimation inside buildings is known as Indoor Positioning System (IPS). OBJECTIVE: This paper presents an IPS implemented as a mobile application that can guide patients and visitors throughout a healthcare premise. METHODS: The proposed system exploits the geolocation capabilities offered by existing navigation frameworks for determining and displaying the user’s position. A hybrid mobile application architecture has been adopted because it allows to deploy the code to multiple platforms, simplifying maintenance and upgrading. RESULTS: The developed application features two different working modes for on-site and off-site navigation, which offer both the possibility of actual navigation within the hospital, or planning a route from a list of available starting points to the desired target, without being within the navigable area. Tests have been conducted to evaluate the performance and the accuracy of the system. CONCLUSION: The proposed application aims to overcome the limitations of Global Navigation Satellite System by using magnetic fingerprinting in combination with sensor fusion simultaneously. This prevents to rely on a single technology, reducing possible system failures and increasing the scalability.

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Designing a Healthcare Computer Aided Facility Management System: A New Approach

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Developing key performance indicators for hospital facilities management services: a developing country perspective

Developing key performance indicators for hospital facilities management services: a developing country perspective

An integrated custom decision-support computer aided facility management informative system for healthcare facilities and analysis

Designing and developing a mobile application for indoor real-time positioning and navigation in healthcare facilities

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