Authors:
Vittorio Montefusco
1
;
Elena Sini
1
;
Michele Torresani
1
;
Paolo Locatelli
2
;
Nicola Restifo
2
and
Roberta Facchini
2
Affiliations:
1
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Italy
;
2
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keyword(s):
AIDC technology, Mobile&wireless, RFId, Business process reengineering, Process traceability, Stem cells, Therapy management, Process quality assurance, Transfusion safety.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Traceability and quality assurance of bedside processes are often still manual, without the appropriate support of information systems. Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) solutions integrated with Mobile&Wireless devices are key solutions to meet the needs of secure identification of persons and items and of traceability of processes in healthcare organizations. These technologies can fit a variety of processes, like enterprise-wide person/item identification, blood transfusions, surgical samples identification, therapy management. The challenge is to extend the use of these solutions also to other processes like biobanking, where stem cellular products require strict procedures of collection and manipulation, even in critical environmental conditions. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (Italy) has a wide experience in RFId projects and is starting to lead a project aimed to design, develop and implement a set of organizational models, acknowledged
procedures and ICT tools in order to improve actual support to collection and transplantation of Human Stem Cells. In this paper we present a literature overview of cases of implementation of AIDC technology solution and of how its character of ubiquity and versatility could fit well with process requirements, discussing the Istituto’s business case.
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