Impact of position tracking on the outpatient navigation system.
Reduction of waiting time of patients and idle time of doctors is one of the most important factors of outpatient ward management. Although conventional in-hospital outpatient navigation and re-scheduling systems free the patients from waiting rooms, the systems often cause additional idle times for the doctors and even several clinical incidents. This paper designed a new patient navigation and re-scheduling system equips position tracking. The authors introduced the system into Kyoto University Hospital. As a result, the system decreased more than 100 hours a day of wasted time and irritations of the patients and the clinical staffs. The results tell that the context-aware feature makes not only the system user friendly but also the users friendly.
Department of Medical Informatics, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan. tomo@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tomohiro
T
Kuroda
Tadamasa
T
Takemura
Haruo
H
Noma
Kazuya
K
Okamoto
Naoto
N
Kume
Hiroyuki
H
Yoshihara
D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010045:Outpatients; D017748:Time Management