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Engineering a state monitoring service for real-time patient flow management

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Aladdin Baarah,

Liam PeytonAuthors Info & Claims

MIDDLEWARE '12: Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2405688.2405696

Published: 03 December 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Addressing wait times is a challenge for the healthcare system. It is difficult for hospitals to measure precisely wait times and root causes. To do so they need to process events from disparate sources in real-time to measure fine grained care states of the patients, providers, beds and other resources related to care processes. In this paper, we present a state monitoring service for patient flow management that has been prototyped with a Toronto area hospital to integrate events from RFID tracking, business process management (BPM) applications and legacy systems. The results show that BPM and RFID provide events in real-time, but on their own could not fully define all states in the care process. Our state monitoring service integrates BPM and RFID and infers new events that define all the states not handled by BPM and RFID.

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Index Terms

Engineering a state monitoring service for real-time patient flow management
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
    2. Health informatics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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MIDDLEWARE '12: Proceedings of the 9th Middleware Doctoral Symposium of the 13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

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DOI:10.1145/2405688

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Behnam SBadreddin OKnight JKuziemsky C(2013)Toward a care process metamodelProceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care10.5555/2663575.2663595(79-85)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2663575.2663595
Baffoe SBaarah APeyton LKnight JKuziemsky C(2013)Inferring state for real-time monitoring of care processesProceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care10.5555/2663575.2663590(57-63)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
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https://doi.org/10.1109/SEHC.2013.6602483
Baffoe SBaarah APeyton L(2013)Inferring state for real-time monitoring of care processes2013 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care (SEHC)10.1109/SEHC.2013.6602479(57-63)Online publication date: May-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/SEHC.2013.6602479

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