Patient Safety Enhancement-Based RFID Operation Room Medical Care System
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Chen, Chih-Hwa
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
As hospital medical care management continues to be a focus concern of the general public, among all hospital departments, the tasks of surgical room personnel are not only fastidious but also with greater risks. 39.5% of medical malpractice incidents take place at the surgical room, a telltale sign reaffirming the scenario that ratio of surgical room malpractice occurred tends to be higher than that at the other departments. Hence the ability to effectively manage the surgical room service procedure that would poise to safeguard patient safety and enhance the overall medical care service quality can help to derive an instantaneous yield. With that, the study has chosen the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Keelung as the introductory study subject.
As far as the surgical community and the entire medical care industry are concerned, the most critical element lies in how best to enhance patient safety. While utilizing the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system’s surgical room medical care system proposed by the study would help to achieve the goal.
The current state of RFID induction by Taiwan’s medical care industry has largely broached from the event perspective, i.e. using RFID for patient tracking in SARS prevention, and from the identification point of a small number of patients that keep from truly realizing the ideology of enhancing patient safety.
The thesis has focused on the present state of RFID adaptation in the local medical care system, together with focusing on some of the links at the surgical room that are prone to error, to develop a RFID management system, which is posed to greatly reduce harm caused by medical staff negligence when used to validate the surgical checklist.
The study has devised and presented a system backed by five major characteristics of Improve Patient Safety, Auto-checking, Proof-of-action, Essential-display and Auto-reminder; the design and development can be described in two major categories,
1.Logical Design
The study adopts the Enterprising Resource Planning (ERP) concept to devise an overall framework backed by comprehensive system, organization structure and operating flow for devising a RFID medical care management system that serves to enhance patient safety, and transforming a passive information system into an active control and monitoring system.
2.Tangible Design
To achieve the ideology of the RFID surgical room medical care system, there is a necessity to take into account the characteristic and specification of the tangible equipment. For which, the study not only focuses on the logistical design of the flow, but also emphasized on devising a tangible system’s surgical room computer system flow and drawing design, infrastructure system facilities, encompassing five categories of mobile RFID scanner, RFID tagging, built-in RFID manual drawing, as well as a printer and a shredder.
The case study that describes in-depth the inconvenience before a hospital inducts a RFID system and the state of errors that prone to occur, together with the differences in convenience and accuracy following the system induction duly presented, clearly validates the RFID surgical room medical care system’s advantage and practicality, and its tangible yield in excelling patient safety and improving the overall medical care service quality.
Subjects
無線射頻辨識系統
病人安全
手術室
開刀房
醫療系統
RFID
Patient Safety
Operation Room
Medical Care System
Type
other
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