Equipment location in hospitals using RFID-based positioning system

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1058-1069

  Shirehjini, Ali Asghar Nazari ^a   Yassine, Abdulsalam ^b   Shirmohammadi, Shervin ^c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bed tracking; context aware services and applications; equipment tracking; real time location systems (RTLS); sensors and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies for e health

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; CONTEXT AWARE SERVICES; CRITICAL EQUIPMENT; EHEALTH; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EXISTING SYSTEMS; FLOW OF MATERIAL; LOGISTIC ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; QUALITY OF CARE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; REAL-TIME LOCATION; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA; SERVICE QUALITY;

DATA PROCESSING; EQUIPMENT; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PATIENT MONITORING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSORS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; PROCEDURES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE;

CLINICAL ALARMS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT, HOSPITAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE;

EID: 84871018349     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2204896     Document Type: Article

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