Healthcare decision support applications using statistical process control (SPC) and virtual instrumentation (VI)

Author

Gieras, I.A. ; Rosow, E. ; Enderle, J.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Clinical Eng. & Technol. Manage., Beaumont Services Company, L.L.C, Royal Oak, MI, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

435

Abstract

Healthcare is an ever-changing environment, thus it is essential for each medical institution to be prepared to face and consequently conquer the future advancements in technology. This can be accomplished by careful selection of appropriate healthcare performance indicators to create a successful control system. In this project, statistical process control (SPC) principles incorporated into the virtual instrumentation (VI) application, using a programming environment, LabVIEW made it possible to develop such a control system. The designed system constitutes a comprehensive control system, which accomplishes three major goals: detection, location and assignment of causes of special, uncontrolled variation within a pre-specified indicator process

Keywords

biocontrol; biomedical engineering; decision support systems; health care; medical expert systems; statistical process control; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW; healthcare decision support applications; healthcare performance indicators; pre-specified indicator process; programming environment; statistical process control; uncontrolled variation; virtual instrumentation; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical monitoring; Communication system control; Control systems; Hospitals; Instruments; Medical control systems; Medical services; Process control; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Professional Communication Conference, 2001. IPCC 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Sante Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7209-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCC.2001.971592

Filename

971592