Mobility in Healthcare for Remote Intensive Care Unit Clinical Management

2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Smith

2009

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Vast quantities of data is created by utilizing sensors to gather information from patients located in intensive care units worldwide through physiological monitoring. The service oriented architectural model has emerged as a mechanism to support data interchange in a structured way to support the provision of services. The nature of critical care is such that clinicians provide a service of care, often to patients that are not located within their intensive care unit, and prior to the arrangement of transport to their unit. As a result opportunities exist to utilize the service oriented approach to provide a service of critical care. This research presents a survey of how recent computing and IT research as applied to physiological collection, transmission and storage of physiological data utilizes the service of critical care concept based on a service oriented architecture approach.

“…However, a recent survey ICU focused health informatics research [12], found that most researchers were not integrating patients or clinicians' mobility within their research.…”

Section: Service Of Critical Carementioning

confidence: 98%

A Survey of Physiological Monitoring Data Models to Support the Service of Critical Care

2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Smith

2009

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“…This research is part of the larger "e-Baby" research project (Foster & McGregor, 2006;McGregor, 2005;McGregor, Bryan, Curry, & Tracy, 2002;McGregor, Heath, & Wei, 2005;McGregor, Kneale, & Tracy, 2005, 2006. The broad aims of the e-Baby project are to develop:…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Availability Web Service forwards details of the receiving Neonatologist together with the details for the receiving Neonatologist's Physiological Web Service. Further details on Web services by NETS are contained in , 2006.…”

Section: Availability Web Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In general, the research, development and adoption of new information technologies (IT) and information systems (IS) within the healthcare domain is currently lagging behind other industries (McGregor, 2006;Wu, Wang, & Lin, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This article focuses on the framework that enables the coupling of various previously defined e-Baby components (Foster & McGregor, 2006;McGregor, 2005;McGregor et al, 2002;McGregor, Heath et al, 2005;Mc-Gregor, Kneale et al, 2005, 2006 using Webservices-based Clinical Management systems to support intra and inter organizational patient journey workflows.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Framework for the Design of Web Service Based Clinical Management Systems to Support Inter and Intra Organizational Patient Journeys

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics

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The clinical management of premature and ill term babies is challenged by the necessity of several inter and intra organizational patient journeys. Premature and ill-term babies born in regional Australia and Canada must be moved to another hospital with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) facilities. NICU babies requiring surgery must be moved to a Level IV NICU for surgery. Current clinical management supports the transfer of limited patient data via paper or telephone exchange. In this article a framework for the design of Web-service-based clinical management systems to support inter and intra organizational patient journeys is presented. A series of Web services are described and integrated and coordinated through BPEL processes enabling greater support for inter-and intra-organizational transfer of patient data. This framework is demonstrated through a NICU case study. A key benefit of this framework is that it enables the establishment of "on demand" patient journeys eliminating the need to establish permanent point-to-point connections.

Next generation remote critical care through service-oriented architectures: challenges and opportunities

Eklund

2010

SOCA

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Health care providers and governments are under pressure to maintain and improve the quality of care to an increasing volume of critical care patients at either end of the life cycle, namely premature and ill term babies together with the elderly. The provision of a service of critical care utilizing real time service-oriented architectures has the potential to enable clinicians to be supported in the care of a greater number patients that are, perhaps more importantly, located elsewhere to their intensive care units. This paper presents a review of recent research in the application of computing and IT to support the service of critical care and determines the trends and challenges for the application of real time serviceoriented architectures within the domain. It then presents some case study-based research on the design of a serviceoriented architecture-based approach to support two aspects of critical care namely elderly care and neonatal intensive care to provide further context to trends and opportunities.