Location-awareness Communications System for Improving Medical Service Quality

Author

Lin, Po-Yen ; Huang, Chih-Ning ; Chan, Chia-Tai ; Yang, Yuan-Rung

Author_Institution

Inst. of Biomed. Eng., Nat. Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

682

Lastpage

686

Abstract

Location-awareness computing enables services based on the current location of a user. By adding a layer of location-awareness intelligence to the VoWLAN platform, a location-enabled VoWLAN service may further bring seamless connections for medical professionals to communicate and collaborate with each other efficiently. It significantly aids the locating relative professionals and delivering critical information for hospital urgencies. In this article, we proposed a Location Aware Patient Care Communication System (LAPC2S) is the convergence of voice and data for the purpose of reducing medical errors and providing better hospital quality of service.

Keywords

Internet telephony; biomedical communication; health care; medical administrative data processing; quality of service; wireless LAN; VoWLAN platform; hospital urgencies; location aware patient care communication system; location-awareness communications system; medical professionals; medical service quality; quality of service; Biomedical equipment; Collaboration; Disaster management; Hospitals; Internet telephony; Medical services; Mobile handsets; Mobile radio mobility management; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Communication Technology, 2008. ICACT 2008. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gangwon-Do

ISSN

1738-9445

Print_ISBN

978-89-5519-136-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACT.2008.4493852

Filename

4493852