Authors: Mehmet S Unluturk
Publish Date: 2011/05/04
Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 2529-2536
Abstract
Effective communication is the most important part of any healthcare organization For many years hospital nurse call solutions had been standalone systems with occasional integration to pocket paging for outputting patient call alerts to mobile staff In the late 1990’s technology enabled inbuilding wireless phones to supplement or replace paging systems as a means of not only sending alerts but also enabling voice communication between mobile staff and patients Today’s nurse call market requires integration of additional information from location and ADT admit discharge transfer systems into what have traditionally been nurse call applications This system information is required not only at the nursing station pagers and phones but also at PC’s placed on each patient care floor in hallways nurse stations and offices and at areas away from the patients including administrator and clinical engineering offices It is crucial that nurses have the latest patient information in their hand wherever they go in the hospital In this paper MatchMakerNET has been developed to integrate all these technologies into the hospital’s LAN to improve nursepatient communication
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