Portable Patient Information Integration System for Patient Safety Improvement

Abstract

Nowadays, medical centers are working on setting a safe medicating environment by using information technology. This study tried to improve patients’ safety environment, communications among medical workers and patients, medicating quality, and medical process efficiency through a wireless handheld RFID patient safety enhancement system for medical personnel. The proposed portable patient information integration system combines Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Wireless Network, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and Front-Monitoring System. Through the help of the proposed system, the medical workers can identify patients by non contact identification and get medical record immediately. Meanwhile the proposed system can record the history of the interaction between medical personnel and patients. It can also send alarm to the corresponding medical workers when reporting a high risk testing result and give medicine safety suggestion. The proposed system can improve the correctness and instantaneousness of patients’ medical information and hence provide a safe environment for patients, and the Wan Fang Hospital is now verifying the performance of this system for improving the patients’safety.