Real-Time, Location-Based Patient-Device Association Management: Design and Proof of Concept

Raoufeh Rezaee, Malak Baslyman, Daniel Amyot, Alain Mouttham, Rana Chreyh and Glen Geiger
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Raoufeh Rezaee: University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Malak Baslyman: University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Amyot: University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alain Mouttham: Montfort Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Rana Chreyh: Canadian Blood Services, Ontario, Canada
Glen Geiger: The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario, Canada

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), 2017, vol. 12, issue 3, 37-61

Abstract: Background: Hospitals need to accurately manage mobile devices (e.g., intravenous pumps) associated to their patients and health providers to ensure patient safety. Some hospitals have already invested substantially in real-time location system (RTLS) technology, a specific type of Internet of Things (IoT) application for indoor positioning, to manage mobile clinical devices. Objective: This paper investigates the reuse of RTLS systems to monitor patients and their assigned devices and to manage their connectivity automatically, in real time. Method: A system called Real-time Patient-Device Association and Disassociation (RPDAD) is designed, implemented, and tested in a hospital room and in a university laboratory. Results: RPDAD helps manage patient-device associations through a tablet application, with accurate suggestions for closest devices and automated detection of unexpected disassociations, resulting in real-time alerts. Conclusion: RPDAD offers a usable means of managing associations that does not depend on bar-coding technologies. It also helps amortize investments in RTLS.

Date: 2017
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