Bed Management System Implementation: Experimental Study

Flannagán Noonan, Michelle Hanlon, Juncal Nogales, Ciarán Doyle, Eilish Broderick, Joseph Walsh

2024

Abstract

Many hospitals today use bed management systems that are primarily manual and paper-based. This inhibits efficiency and informed decision making, as communication is constrained. Hence these systems are essentially memoryless as lessons learned reside with individuals but are lost to the organisation as a whole. Electronic systems that can capture and record checkpoints on the patient pathway allow that data to be analysed. This can help with improving efficiency and prediction, allowing “what if” scenarios to be examined with data to support it. This paper presents the outcome of developing a bed management system and deploying it in a hospital for a live trial over a period of approximately three months. It also highlights improvements suggested through system usage over the period of the deployment and presents a novel efficiency measure.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Noonan F., Hanlon M., Nogales J., Doyle C., Broderick E. and Walsh J. (2024). Bed Management System Implementation: Experimental Study. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 370-377. DOI: 10.5220/0012346700003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={Flannagán Noonan and Michelle Hanlon and Juncal Nogales and Ciarán Doyle and Eilish Broderick and Joseph Walsh},
title={Bed Management System Implementation: Experimental Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={370-377},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012346700003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Bed Management System Implementation: Experimental Study
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Noonan F.
AU - Hanlon M.
AU - Nogales J.
AU - Doyle C.
AU - Broderick E.
AU - Walsh J.
PY - 2024
SP - 370
EP - 377
DO - 10.5220/0012346700003657
PB - SciTePress