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Evaluating Smart Communication And Monitoring Technologies For Hospital Hygiene Workflows

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  • Zaid Ali Shhedi

    (PhD student, Doctoral School of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)

  • Alin Moldoveanu

    (Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)

  • Florica Moldoveanu

    (Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)

  • Cristian Taslitchi

    (PhD student, Doctoral School of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)

  • Hesham Alabbassi

    (PhD student, Doctoral School of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)

Abstract

Hospitals receive many patients and visitors daily, and include a large number of medical staff members, thus, hospitals are eligible environments for infection transmission. The hospital acquired infection (HAI) is situated at the top of the reasons pyramid that lead to death. HAI means that a patient enters the hospital for some reason and gets infected because of another reason. Non compliance with hygiene protocols is a major cause of HAI. Therefore, the automatic monitoring of hospital workflows using the recent communication technologies is a vital factor for infection prevention. In this article, we highlight in details the technologies that could be investigated for monitoring the workflows in a hospital room. We describe the hospital room use case, and we analyze the suitability for each technology. The goal of this paper is to suggest a system for monitoring the clinical workflows and pveventing the HAI. Nowadays, it became possible to perform efficient automated monitoring of hygiene related clinical workflows and we expect such solutions to become widely available within a few years.

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  • Zaid Ali Shhedi & Alin Moldoveanu & Florica Moldoveanu & Cristian Taslitchi & Hesham Alabbassi, 2016. "Evaluating Smart Communication And Monitoring Technologies For Hospital Hygiene Workflows," Romanian Economic Business Review, Romanian-American University, vol. 10(1), pages 32-44, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:rau:journl:v:10:y:2016:i:1:p:32-44
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