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An infrastructure for smart hospitals

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In healthcare facilities most of the daily activities require strict coordination between clinicians, who often operate under heavy workloads and minimal workforce conditions in environments filled with increasingly complex technology. Ubiquitous Computing applications constitute a suitable solution for both reducing medical costs and improving patient safety by better supporting clinical processes. In this study we introduce an intelligent infrastructure for smart hospitals which implements basic services to optimize medical staff/patient interactions and grants ubiquitous and transparent access to clinical data stored in standard clinical databases. This infrastructure relies on the integration of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) and photosensor technologies to identify, locate and track clinicians and patients equipped with mobile devices and wearable RFID tags.

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  1. ICAR-CNR - National Research Council of Italy, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy

    Gennaro Della Vecchia, Luigi Gallo, Massimo Esposito & Antonio Coronato

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Vecchia, G.D., Gallo, L., Esposito, M. et al. An infrastructure for smart hospitals. Multimed Tools Appl 59, 341–362 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0695-8

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