A Pilot Study for Integrating Facility Information with Healthcare Information to

描述（由申请人提供）：该小型研究提案是一项试点研究，用于生成初始场景和用例，从患者安全的角度确定医疗保健设施信息和医疗信息之间的关键联系。在医院环境中，每天都要处理大量与房间可用性、技术设备、废物管理、食品服务、采暖通风和空调（HVAC）系统以及维护状态相关的动态数据，以确保顺利运行。最近的示例表明，将医疗机构信息与医疗信息一起处理对于跟踪患者、护理人员、医疗设备和药物以及跟踪污染和医院相关感染非常重要。将医疗保健数据放入其空间上下文中会引入大量附加信息，并能够识别模式和推理机制，从而有效地解释可用信息。尽管有效利用信息技术改善患者安全的战略解决了诊断和治疗期间的医疗安全问题，但与医疗保健环境相关的患者安全以及医疗保健设施信息在此背景下的作用尚未得到充分探讨。该方法涉及开发一个整体系统透视图，其中包括医疗信息和以内容感知的医疗设施为主要目标的整个设施信息之间的链接。该提案的具体目的是：(1)调查患者/医疗信息与医疗机构信息之间的具体联系和重叠；(2)为与患者安全相关的医疗机构信息的关键使用开发场景和用例；(3)在现实世界中评估已开发的场景和用例，以定义未来本体的特征。研究地点是好时医疗中心，这是宾夕法尼亚州立医学院的一家教学医院。该项目的一个主要成果将是确定对医疗保健提供过程影响最大的设施管理流程的特征，以及如何最大限度地发挥其积极影响并最大限度地减少其消极影响。该项目还将确定先进或实时访问设施信息可以增强医疗保健服务和改善患者安全的场景。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Small Research proposal is a pilot study for generating initial scenarios and use cases that identify critical links between the healthcare facility information and the medical information from a patient safety perspective. In a hospital setting, a vast amount of dynamic data related to the availability of rooms, technical equipment, waste management, food services, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and maintenance status is processed daily to provide for a smooth operation. Recent examples show that processing the healthcare facility information together with the medical information is important for tracking patients, caregivers, medical equipment and medication, as well as keeping track of contaminations and hospital related infections. Putting healthcare data into its spatial context introduces a significant amount of additional information, and enables the identification of patterns and reasoning mechanisms for usefully interpreting the available information. Although strategies for effective use of information technology to improve patient safety address the medical safety problems during the diagnosis and treatment, patient safety in relation to the healthcare environment and the role of healthcare facility information in this context has not yet been explored adequately. This approach involves developing an overall systems perspective that includes the link between medical information and the whole facility information with content-aware healthcare facilities as the main goal. The specific aims of this proposal are to: (1) investigate specific links and overlaps between patient/medical information and healthcare facility information; (2) develop scenarios and use cases for the critical use of healthcare facility information in relation to patient safety; (3) evaluate developed scenarios and use cases in a real world setting for defining characteristics of a future ontology. The research site is Hershey Medical Center, which is a teaching hospital for the Penn State College of Medicine. A major outcome of the project would be a characterization of facility management processes that have the most impact on the healthcare delivery process and how to maximize their positive impacts and minimize their negative impacts. The project would also identify scenarios where advanced or real-time access to facility information can enhance healthcare delivery and improve patient safety. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Strategies for effective use of information technology to improve patient safety address the medical safety problems during the diagnosis and treatment, however, patient safety in relation to the healthcare environment and the role of healthcare facility information in this context is not explored yet. This approach involves developing an overall systems perspective that includes the link between medical information and the whole facility information with content-aware buildings as the main goal.