Developing an Easily Applicable Quality Improvement Process to Optimize and Improve Discrete Workflows; Methods for Iterative Change and Successful Scale

Solle, Justin Cook; Close, Sara; Koch, Brandon; Hartley, Tricia; Steinberg, Alexis; Emmert, Amy

doi:10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.12.334

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“…Especially under the background that the basic functions of my country's cities are becoming more and more perfect, the application of the Internet of Things can ensure the information interaction of various building equipment in the city, that is, the "Internet of Everything" in the smart city [7]. At the same time, the application of Internet of Things technology is also an important part of urban development, it can not only realize the informatization of the whole city but also achieve precise control; the relationship between the two should rely on and promote each other, specifically, it includes ecological construction, engineering construction, people's livelihood construction, road construction, public safety, logistics and transportation, and mature medical treatment through intelligent response to optimize and improve service quality, so as to meet the actual needs of our people [8].…”

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Information Extraction and Data Planning of Smart City Based on Internet of Things

Farisi

2022

Journal of Sensors

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In order to solve the problem of slow resource scheduling in the process of smart city management, the author proposes a smart city information extraction and data planning system based on the Internet of Things. IoT requires different technologies for analysis for different data types. Managers use different IoT applications to analyze data from different devices and integrate relevant data for possible machine failure or emergency in smart home applications. Situation is predicted. The system includes a cloud platform intelligence center, uses the cloud management module to monitor various hardware devices, constructs the cloud computing resource scheduling objective function, uses the cultural particle swarm algorithm to solve the objective function, and obtains the cloud computing resource scheduling scheme. The experimental results show that the overall utilization rate of the system is the best, close to 100%. Conclusion. The system can realize the effective management of the smart city and monitor the city situation in real time. When implementing resource scheduling, the task completion time is short, the system utilization rate is high, and the resources can be maximized.

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Information Extraction and Data Planning of Smart City Based on Internet of Things

Farisi

2022

Journal of Sensors

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“…Workflow interruptions have been found to result in decreased ability of health care providers to manage workload [ 19 ]. However, providing smaller changes that are easy to implement and provide flexibility in application have been found to be effective in improving workflow [ 20 ]. This implementation of iPads appears to have streamlined the process to decrease workflow barriers, as demonstrated by the increased compliance rates at 4 of the 6 campuses.…”

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Implementation of iPads to Increase Compliance With Delivery of New Parent Education in the Mother–Baby Unit: Retrospective Study

Pavuluri¹,

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Hartman³

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JMIR Pediatr Parent

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Background Abusive head trauma (AHT) is a serious health problem affecting more than 3000 infants annually in the United States. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that health care providers counsel new parents about the dangers of AHT. Previous studies demonstrate that parental education is effective at reducing AHT events. South Carolina law requires hospitals to offer all new parents with the opportunity to watch an educational video about AHT. This mandate is addressed in different ways at the several delivery centers within a large South Carolina health care system with a range of viewing methods utilized, from DVD players to mobile workstations to personal devices. Frequent technical barriers and workflow inefficiencies resulted in low rates of compliance with this mandate at several campuses. To improve compliance of parent viewing of this educational video, the health care system standardized video viewing protocol across all campuses by implementing the use of iPads for parental education. Existing literature suggests that patient education can be improved in the hospital setting by utilizing tablet computers, but our literature search identified a gap in research around the education of parents and caregivers during hospitalization for childbirth. We used the implementation of an iPad-based parental education delivery protocol to evaluate whether tablet computers can improve compliance with delivering new parent education in the hospital setting. Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the standardized use of iPads to deliver education in the mother–baby unit resulted in improved rates of parents’ acceptance of the opportunity to view an educational video about AHT. Methods We interviewed physicians and nurses to determine what previous protocols were in place to educate new parents before a standardized iPad-based protocol was implemented across 6 campuses of a large South Carolina health care system. A retrospective study was conducted by review of 5231 records from across the 6 campuses to determine the pre- and postintervention compliance rates of viewing the AHT educational video by parents in the mother–baby unit. Results Compliance increased overall (P<.001) across sites from an average of 41.93% (SD 46.24) to 99.73% (SD 0.26) (φ=0.510). As much as 4 of 6 locations saw a significant increase in compliance rates after introducing the iPad intervention (P<.001). The remaining 2 locations that showed no significant difference (P>.05) had very high rates of preintervention compliance. Conclusions Following the implementation of a standardized iPad-based protocol to deliver new parent education, there was a significant improvement in the percentage of new parents who viewed an educational video about AHT in the mother–baby unit. Based on these results, other health care providers should consider iPads to be a feasible and effective method for delivering hospital-based education to families in the mother–baby unit.

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Developing an Easily Applicable Quality Improvement Process to Optimize and Improve Discrete Workflows; Methods for Iterative Change and Successful Scale

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Information Extraction and Data Planning of Smart City Based on Internet of Things

Information Extraction and Data Planning of Smart City Based on Internet of Things

Implementation of iPads to Increase Compliance With Delivery of New Parent Education in the Mother–Baby Unit: Retrospective Study

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