| Alerts in mobile healthcare applications: requirements and pilot study. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 15217262 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Recent advances in mobile technologies have greatly extended traditional communication technologies to mobile devices. At the same time, healthcare environments are by nature "mobile" where doctors and nurses do not have fixed workspaces. Irregular and exceptional events are generated in daily hospital routines, such as operations rescheduling, laboratory/examination results, and adverse drug events. These events may create requests that should be delivered to the appropriate person at the appropriate time. Those requests that are classified as urgent are referred to as alerts. Efficient routing and monitoring of alerts are keys to quality and cost-effective healthcare services. Presently, these are generally handled in an ad hoc manner. In this paper, we propose the use of a healthcare alert management system to handle these alert messages systematically. We develop a model for specifying alerts that are associated with medical tasks and a set of parameters for their routing. We design an alert monitor that matches medical staff and their mobile devices to receive alerts, based on the requirements of these alerts. We also propose a mechanism to handle and reroute, if necessary, an alert message when it has not been acknowledged within a specific deadline. |
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Authors:
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Eleanna Kafeza; Dickson K W Chiu; S C Cheung; Marina Kafeza |
Publication Detail:
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Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Volume: 8 ISSN: 1089-7771 ISO Abbreviation: IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed Publication Date: 2004 Jun |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2004-06-25 Completed Date: 2004-07-23 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9712259 Medline TA: IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 173-81 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Marketing and Communications, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens 10434, Greece. kafeza@aueb.gr |
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Computer Communication Networks* Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods* Feasibility Studies Hospital Communication Systems* Information Storage and Retrieval / methods* Mobile Health Units* Monitoring, Physiologic / methods* Online Systems Pilot Projects Software* Software Design* |
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