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The fixed cost of the emergency room is too high to support its
operation.
The shortage of professional, well-trained staff and life-saving
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equipment.
Providing wrong drugs, injections, volume of anesthetic, surgery,
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and so forth.
In accordance with the above deficiencies, we highlight two issues of
emergency room as following: (1) monitor triage patient's waiting time.
The emergency room has to monitor triage patients waiting time in order
to prevent negligence of emergency room treatment follow up. (2) Monitor
the treatment process. The emergency room has to monitor the treatment
process in order to prevent human errors.
The RFID plays an important role to ensure the emergency room medical
treatment process. With RFID functions, predefined waiting time can
prevent patients from waiting too long to receive treatment, and it can
insure the right person gets the correct treatment at the correct time to
prevent human errors. The WF hospital implemented an emergency room
RFID information system to monitor both patient's waiting time and treat-
ment process. This study discusses the emergency room RFID information
system as follows
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ER-RFID information system workflow
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Monitor triage patient's waiting time in emergency room
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Monitor the treatment process of emergency room
15.4 ER-RFID Information System
In order to monitor both triage patient's waiting time and medical treatment
process for emergency room management, the Patient Safety Institute of the
WF hospital implemented an emergency room RFID (ER-RFID) information
system.
15.4.1 er-rFiD information System Workflow
When the patient arrives at the emergency room of the WF hospital, the
patient is triaged by identifying the injury level from level 1 to level 4, which
are shown in Table 15.3.
Figure 15.1 shows four stages of the ER-RFID information system workflow
as follows
