Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2001. IPCC 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Sante Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7209-3
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2001.971592
