Title :
Careggi Smart hospital: A mobile app for patients, citizens and healthcare staff
Author :
Luschi, A. ; Belardinelli, A. ; Marzi, L. ; Frosini, F. ; Miniati, R. ; Iadanza, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. of Florence, Univ. of Florence, Florence, Italy
Abstract :
This paper presents a mobile app called “Careggi Smart Hospital” which has been developed for the Careggi Polyclinic in Florence. The application is designed for Android smartphones and tablets and it is freely downloadable from the Google Play Store. It provides various useful tools to the hospital´s users such as personnel and structures finding, way-finding and the possibility to access personal medical records collected on regional electronic health record.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); biomedical communication; electronic health records; health care; medical computing; smart phones; user interfaces; Android smartphones; Careggi Polyclinic; Careggi Smart Hospital; Florence; Google Play Store; citizens; healthcare staff; hospital users; mobile app; patients; personal medical records; personnel; regional electronic health record; structure finding; tablets; way-finding; Databases; Floors; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Monitoring;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valencia
DOI :
10.1109/BHI.2014.6864320
