BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time
Emergency and Trauma department (ETD) in Malaysia's public hospitals receives millions of patients than other clinics due to cheap charges and reliable services, however most of them are Green Zone non-critical patients. Long waiting time for patient treatment results into congestion and affect...
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| author | Osman, Mohd. Shafarudin Azizan, Azizul Hassan, Khairul Nizam Ab. Ghani, Hadhrami Hassan, Noor Hafizah Yakub, Fitri Mohd. Daud, Salwani Abdul Latiff, Liza |
| author_facet | Osman, Mohd. Shafarudin Azizan, Azizul Hassan, Khairul Nizam Ab. Ghani, Hadhrami Hassan, Noor Hafizah Yakub, Fitri Mohd. Daud, Salwani Abdul Latiff, Liza |
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| description | Emergency and Trauma department (ETD) in Malaysia's public hospitals receives millions of patients than other clinics due to cheap charges and reliable services, however most of them are Green Zone non-critical patients. Long waiting time for patient treatment results into congestion and affects the quality of service provided in the ETD. To date only 20 public hospitals in Malaysia implements Hospital Information System (HIS) and patient waiting time is captured from the system manually, thus lacking the functionality to track patient in realtime. Despite studies conducted worldwide, studies on design, development and implementation of RTLS in public hospital in Malaysia have not been conducted yet. This paper examines a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based Real-time Location System (RTLS) implementation in ETD with HIS integration to reduce patient waiting time. We develop a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based RTLS prototype that is integrated with existing HIS at ETD, Hospital Putrajaya and augment data visualization interventions to reduce patient waiting time in ETD. Preliminary results show substantial benefits of patient waiting time reduction leading to improvement of service quality. Our preliminary findings show when RTLS is introduced in the ETD workflow, the mean ATC time was significantly reduced to 10.47% in comparison to HIS without RTLS. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-961412022-07-04T06:34:11Z http://eprints.utm.my/96141/ BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time Osman, Mohd. Shafarudin Azizan, Azizul Hassan, Khairul Nizam Ab. Ghani, Hadhrami Hassan, Noor Hafizah Yakub, Fitri Mohd. Daud, Salwani Abdul Latiff, Liza Q Science (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Emergency and Trauma department (ETD) in Malaysia's public hospitals receives millions of patients than other clinics due to cheap charges and reliable services, however most of them are Green Zone non-critical patients. Long waiting time for patient treatment results into congestion and affects the quality of service provided in the ETD. To date only 20 public hospitals in Malaysia implements Hospital Information System (HIS) and patient waiting time is captured from the system manually, thus lacking the functionality to track patient in realtime. Despite studies conducted worldwide, studies on design, development and implementation of RTLS in public hospital in Malaysia have not been conducted yet. This paper examines a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based Real-time Location System (RTLS) implementation in ETD with HIS integration to reduce patient waiting time. We develop a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based RTLS prototype that is integrated with existing HIS at ETD, Hospital Putrajaya and augment data visualization interventions to reduce patient waiting time in ETD. Preliminary results show substantial benefits of patient waiting time reduction leading to improvement of service quality. Our preliminary findings show when RTLS is introduced in the ETD workflow, the mean ATC time was significantly reduced to 10.47% in comparison to HIS without RTLS. 2021-06-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Osman, Mohd. Shafarudin and Azizan, Azizul and Hassan, Khairul Nizam and Ab. Ghani, Hadhrami and Hassan, Noor Hafizah and Yakub, Fitri and Mohd. Daud, Salwani and Abdul Latiff, Liza (2021) BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time. In: 3rd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering, ICECCE 2021, 12 June 2021 - 13 June 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICECCE52056.2021.9514248 |
| spellingShingle | Q Science (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Osman, Mohd. Shafarudin Azizan, Azizul Hassan, Khairul Nizam Ab. Ghani, Hadhrami Hassan, Noor Hafizah Yakub, Fitri Mohd. Daud, Salwani Abdul Latiff, Liza BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title | BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title_full | BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title_fullStr | BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title_full_unstemmed | BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title_short | BLE-based real-time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| title_sort | ble based real time location system integration with hospital information system to reduce patient waiting time |
| topic | Q Science (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
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