Improving Healthcare Efficiency using Real Time Location

使用实时定位提高医疗保健效率

• 批准号: 6834151
• 负责人: Michael K Dempsey
• 金额: $ 151.16万
• 依托单位: RADIANSE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-10 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6834151
• 关键词: bioengineering /biomedical engineering; clinical research; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; cost effectiveness; data collection; health care facility; health care facility information system; health care service; hospitals; human data; patient monitoring device; time resolved data

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Radianse Inc. (formerly Sentinel Wireless, LLC) has created an automatic, continuous, real-time indoor positioning system (IPS) specifically for the healthcare environment. The IPS is installed on standard networks and is compatible with existing databases, making its deployment simple, inexpensive, and user-friendly. The investigators believe the system will improve the safety and efficiency of healthcare by enabling the monitoring and analysis of patients, staff and clinical process flows. In addition, the system will provide data on equipment utilization, and will reduce the time the clinical staff spend searching for equipment. In Phase I of this SBIR, the researchers determined that the prototype IPS accurately and reliably tracked staff and patients in both space and time. Specifically, the data indicates that the location of tagged staff and patients can be determined to at least the room level and within approximately 30 seconds as compared to the "gold standard" of trained observers recording locations and times. This Phase II SBIR application proposes to demonstrate the IPS installed at MGH results in increased efficiencies in a clinical and research setting as measured by reduced patient waiting times and decreased surgical flow-times. Specifically, based on the successful Phase I results and utilization of the IPS's powerful quantitative platform, Phase II will analyze current process flows in the MGH perisurgical setting. The aims of Phase II are to: - Re-engineer and deploy hardware and software based on clinical feedback for COMMERCIALIZATION. - Quantify the Clinical UTILITY of IPS-on reducing occurrence of delays during surgical care; reducing time spent looking for patients and equipment; on reducing wait time and patient flow time; and on improvement in staff satisfaction. - Quantify the COST-EFFECTIVENESS and ROI in the OR of the Future using the IPS compared with standard OR without IPS. Armed with this solid database, the research community can then tackle the compelling challenges of system inefficiencies and patient care improvements. This research will then allow decision-makers to effect the necessary operational changes and technology purchases to significantly impact cost and patient care. Investigators believe this work will have immediate and dramatic utility in the clinical environment and provide the needed documentation to implement the IPS throughout the hospital.

描述（由申请人提供）： Radianse Inc.（前身为Sentinel Wireless，LLC）专门为医疗环境创建了一个自动、连续、实时的室内定位系统（IPS）。IPS安装在标准网络上，并与现有数据库兼容，使其部署简单，廉价和用户友好。 研究人员认为，该系统将通过监测和分析患者、工作人员和临床流程来提高医疗保健的安全性和效率。此外，该系统将提供设备使用情况的数据，并将减少临床工作人员寻找设备的时间。 在SBIR的第一阶段，研究人员确定原型IPS在空间和时间上准确可靠地跟踪工作人员和患者。具体而言，数据表明，与记录位置和时间的训练有素的观察者的“黄金标准”相比，可以在大约30秒内确定标记的工作人员和患者的位置，至少在房间水平。 该第II阶段SBIR应用旨在证明MGH安装的IPS可提高临床和研究环境中的效率，具体表现为减少患者等待时间和减少手术流程时间。具体而言，基于第一阶段的成功结果和IPS强大的定量平台的利用，第二阶段将分析MGH围手术期环境中的当前工艺流程。第二阶段的目标是： - 根据商业化的临床反馈重新设计和部署硬件和软件。 - 量化IPS的临床效用-减少手术护理期间延迟的发生;减少寻找患者和设备的时间;减少等待时间和患者流动时间;提高员工满意度。 - 量化未来手术室中使用IPS与不使用IPS的标准手术室的成本节约性和ROI。 有了这个坚实的数据库，研究界就可以解决系统效率低下和改善患者护理的紧迫挑战。这项研究将使决策者能够进行必要的运营变革和技术采购，以显著影响成本和患者护理。研究人员认为，这项工作将在临床环境中立即和戏剧性的效用，并提供所需的文件，以实施整个医院的IPS。