Evaluation application for tracking and statistical analysis of patient data from hospital real time location system

Abstract

In the recent time, an importance of the Real-time Locating systems (RTLS) in the hospital environment is increasingly important. Such systems are essentially utilized for the localization of either unmovable objects, or patients in the hospital environment. It is supposed that patients who underwent some trauma and surgery may have influenced their cognitive functions in a sense of lost concentration, and orientation is space. Such disorders may endanger the patient’s health. In cooperation with the Trauma Center of University Hospital we have designed a localization system constituting the patients IR tags which are detected by the IR anchors placed in every hospital room. Data from such system represents the patient’s movement and localization completed by sophisticated system of alarms. In this context we have developed the SW application which is connected with the RTLS database where the patient’s localization data are stored. This application is fully integrated into the RTLS system. The SW application evaluates time data represents spent time in every room. The patient’s data are consecutively refreshed and updated in the SW application to receive current information.