Abstract:
Hospitals around the world are taking advantage of
wireless LAN-based computing technologies in view of their
mobility, flexibility, and speed to improve the quality and reduce
the cost of patient care. The handheld computers have evolved into
a viable platform for these organizations to access and manage the
patients' information wirelessly from any point of care. However,
the deployment of the handheld technology is hindered by the lack
of automation of workflows in the present hospital system
architecture. In this paper, thin client architecture with workflow
decision making is presented by considering the outpatient
workflow. The prototype is not intended to replace the workflows
in the healthcare but to facilitate the health care professionals to
receive useful and relevant information on time with greater
flexibility than before. The prototype focuses on exchanging
information with existing legacy systems, updating data in real
time, and making them available to healthcare professionals by
organizing daily routines in the ward.
