Patient flow management and analysis using location tracking

作者: Girish Kulkarni , Neeraj S. Bhavani

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关键词: Location trackingOperations managementMedical staffPatient flowMedical emergencyMedicine

摘要: A patient flow system and method manages patients in a medical facility by tagging patients, staff, assets with wireless locator tags, assigning pattern to each patient. As the moves throughout facility, tag sends location information management computer track patient's progress through pattern. The next state is determined analyzing as well current previous states.

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