Intelligent tools for reducing medication dispensing and administration error

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-21

  Tsai, Pei Hsuan ^a   Liu, Jane W S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automated medication management; Intelligent monitor and alert; Medication scheduling barcode medication administration

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CUSTOMIZABLE; INTELLIGENT MONITOR AND ALERT; INTELLIGENT TOOLS; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICATION MANAGEMENT; NURSING STAFF;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 84927630954     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53956-5_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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