iNuC: An Intelligent Mobile Nursing Cart

Author

Tsai, P.H. ; Chuang, Y.T. ; Chou, T.S. ; Liu, J.W.S. ; Shih, C.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Intelligent Nursing Cart (iNuC) is a mobile, point-of-care medication administration tool for the purpose of preventing medication errors and enhancing patient safety. It provides its user with work and time management and record keeping capabilities as well as a web portal to hospital services and information system. In addition, iNuC has several labor-saving and automation capabilities, including generating shift report from data and notes collected during the user´s shift, tracking medication and medical supply usages and automating requests for medication replenishment.

Keywords

medical information systems; patient care; portals; Web portal; hospital information system; hospital services; iNuC; intelligent mobile nursing cart; medical supply usage tracking; medication error prevention; medication replenishment request automation; medication tracking; patient safety; point-of-care medication administration tool; record keeping; time management; work management; Computer errors; Computer science; Hospitals; Information systems; Intrusion detection; Inventory management; Medical services; Mobile computing; Portals; Safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, 2009. BMEI '09. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4132-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4134-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2009.5305225

Filename

5305225