A Decision Support System in Geriatric Care

Author

Kuo, Nai-Wen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Chinese Culture Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

688

Lastpage

691

Abstract

This paper describes a system designed to enable comprehensive geriatric assessment to be performed in geriatric care. A structured assessment incorporating the interRAI Acute Care assessment tool is administered by a specifically trained nurse assessor. This system not only can improve the timeliness and accuracy of patient care and administration information, but also reduce personnel costs and inventory levels, and improve the quality of patient care. Furthermore, making the theories and applications of geriatric care will be more extensive and convenient for researches and healthcare-related industry.

Keywords

decision support systems; geriatrics; health care; medical computing; patient care; decision support system; geriatric assessment; geriatric care; healthcare-related industry; interRAI acute care assessment tool; inventory level; patient care quality; personnel cost reduction; Decision support systems; Geriatrics; Hospitals; Medical diagnostic imaging; Senior citizens; decision support system; geriatric care;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2010 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Darmstadt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8378-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4222-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IIHMSP.2010.174

Filename

5636176