Pervasive Observation Medicine: The Application of RFID to Improve Patient Safety in Observation Unit of Hospital Emergency Department.
Over the past decade, observation medicine has become an important component of emergency medicine. There are several settings in which observation medicine has been useful and valuable.(1) RFID as the patient identification, not only generates the on-line laboratory data and radiology report via hand-held wireless PDA, this RFID system help physician stream-line patient admission to acute bed or ICU in the emergency department more effectively.
Chen
Chang-I
CI
Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. jack@tmu.edu.tw
Liu
Cheng-Yaw
CY
Li
Yu-Chuan
YC
Chao
Chia-Cheng
CC
Liu
Chien-Tsai
CT
Chen
Chieh-Feng
CF
Kuan
Ching-Feng
CF
D004635:Emergency Medicine; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission; D061214:Patient Safety; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device