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DSS for field hospitals planning. Technological and functional aspects
No full textDuring the last 50 years natural and social disasters have increased 250 %, affecting at least 800 million people. The causes of these disasters are various and most of them are not predictable. A successful strategy is a well planned medical response. The use of Field Hospitals 'FH' specialized for the disasters and planned to guarantee high technical and medical standards is a fundamental component in reducing mortality. The DSS, Model', has allowed the planning of Field Hospitals according to the disaster typology and to the disaster area taking into account the number of people involved and the local health system capacity. The DSS specifies also Field Hospital technical requirements and technological support
Patients tracking and identifying inside hospital: a multilayer method to plan an RFId solution
No full text—This paper shows a method to get a patient
tracking RFId solution, basing on a multilayer planning
architecture. This approach is thought to guarantee that the
found technical solution is as much as possible coherent to the
very initial idea. Project aims, functional requirements and
technical constraints are defined in order to arrive to an active
RFId solution to track and identify patients inside a hospital.
The article also deals with economical issues and physical
design aspects. In this work it’s also defined a three phases
process for patient tracking, that could serve as a guideline for
different technical solutions to the same problem
A New Failure Analysis for Maintenance Management in Complex Hospitals
No full textManagement of medical devices in hospitals includes
the planning of medical equipment acquisition and maintenance. The
presence of critical and non-critical areas together with technological
proliferation render the management of medical devices very
complex. This study creates an easy and objective methodology for
the analysis of medical equipment maintenance, that makes the
management of medical devices more feasible. The study has been
carried out at Florence Hospital Careggi and it aims to help the
clinical engineering department to manage medical equipment by
clarifying the hospital situation through a characterization of the
different areas, technologies and fault typologies
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