Special Guest Lecture - Faculty of Science
Topic
Resource Tracking in the Hospital Setting
Using Ultra-Wideband Technology
to Optimise Healthcare Delivery
-A Practical Guide
Speaker
Dr Tom Bauld
Consulting Bioengineer
Clinical Technology Services
Aramark Healthcare management Systems
Newport News, VA, USA
at 6.00 pm
on Tuesday, 19 April 2005
in Seminar Room, FOCAS building (at rear of DIT Kevin Street College)
Tea, coffee and light food at 5.30 pm in the foyer of the FOCAS building.
Brief CV of Thomas J Bauld, PhD
Dr Tom Bauld has already had a distinguished career of over 35 years of extensive engineering and information technology research and management experience relating to medical technologies in hospitals. After his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, he spent 12 years developing the Biomedical Engineering department in the 500-bed Sinai Hospital in Detroit, along the way participating in the development of the first intra-aortic balloon pump equipment with Kantrowitz' team. At Sinai Hospital Tom was an early pioneer of computer-based equipment maintenance management systems. In 1986 he became manager of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan 560 bed University Hospital, and spent some 15 years there building the department and integrating its services more closely with clinical staff in areas throughout the hospital, including operating rooms/anesthesia, nuclear medicine, cardiology, neurology, respiratory care and others. For the past four years he has been based in Newport News, Virginia, as a consulting bioengineer with the Clinical Technology Services section of the international hospital management company Aramark.
Outline of Lecture
Resource Tracking in the Hospital Setting, Using Ultra-Wideband Technology, to Optimise Healthcare Delivery - A Practical Guide
1 Introduction
- RFID, a major force in process control
2 Background
- Telephone tracking in factories
- Need for Asset Tracking in Healthcare
- Asset utilization & inventory management, loss control, staff productivity, patient care, PMs
3 Human Acceptance Issues
4 Technologies IR, RF, IR-RF, UWB
- Pros and Cons
- Range, sensitivity, installation, use of 802.11 wireless infrastructure, costs,
- Return on Investment
5 Implementations and results
- Nurse call systems, RWRH -IR Hill-Rom
- Asset Tracking: BeaumontHosp., RF GE Pinpoint
- Partners Hospital - Radiance RF
- Riverside Regional Medical Center, Parco UWB
6 System Hardware Elements, Topology
7 UWB Specs for Transmitters, Receivers
8 UWB Signal Processing Algorithms for Determining Location
9 Beyond Asset Tracking: Resource Tracking in Healthcare
- Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Aides, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists, Transporters
- Relationships and Time Together
- Process improvement tool
- Link to EMR
10 New Technologies
- Implantable RFID chips
11 Summary
