Real-Time, Location-Based Patient-Device Association Management

Abstract

Background: Hospitals need to accurately manage mobile devices (e.g., intravenous pumps) associated to their patients and health providers to ensure patient safety. Some hospitals have already invested substantially in real-time location system (RTLS) technology, a specific type of Internet of Things (IoT) application for indoor positioning, to manage mobile clinical devices. Objective: This paper investigates the reuse of RTLS systems to monitor patients and their assigned devices and to manage their connectivity automatically, in real time. Method: A system called Real-time Patient-Device Association and Disassociation (RPDAD) is designed, implemented, and tested in a hospital room and in a university laboratory. Results: RPDAD helps manage patient-device associations through a tablet application, with accurate suggestions for closest devices and automated detection of unexpected disassociations, resulting in real-time alerts. Conclusion: RPDAD offers a usable means of managing associations that does not depend on bar-coding technologies. It also helps amortize investments in RTLS.

Mapping the links between Industry 4.0, circular economy and sustainability: a systematic literature review

“…This study contributes to the body of knowledge on I-4.0, sustainable operations and CE mapping the linkages to specific SDGs by:Creating an original conceptualization of strong linkages between the adoption of I-4.0 technologies and sustainable operations. This study highlights the role of AM, IoT, real-time monitoring in advancing their business operations in multiple ways (Rezaee et al. , 2017; Verdouw et al.…”

“…(1) Creating an original conceptualization of strong linkages between the adoption of I-4.0 technologies and sustainable operations. This study highlights the role of AM, IoT, real-time monitoring in advancing their business operations in multiple ways (Rezaee et al, 2017;Verdouw et al, 2018;Wu et al, 2020;Zhao et al, 2018). This can help management to identify and re-examine the suitable technologies under I-4.0 to implement the CE practices within their organizations.…”

“…An organization's sustainable operations are environmentally friendly when resource consumption exceeds resource regeneration and pollution does not exceed the environment's ability to absorb pollution (Toffel, 2014). I-4.0 involves a group of technologies like "IoT," "simulation,", "Internet of Service (IoS)," "cloud-based manufacturing," "big data analytics," "radio frequency identification (RFID)" focused on the digital transformation and interconnection across all production units in a given economic system JEIM (Aulawi and Amin, 2019;Cai et al, 2014;Lasi et al, 2014;Nascimento et al, 2019;Pacchini et al, 2019;Rezaee et al, 2017;Wilson et al, 2020). These technologies provide knowledge on machines, production and flow of material, integrating the information that helps in effective managerial decision-making and organizational competitiveness (Agaram, 2019;Lu, 2017;Meski et al, 2020;Romano et al, 2010;Tan et al, 2012;Sanya and Shehab, 2014;Zablith et al, 2016).…”