Bed Management System Development

Flannagán Noonan, Juncal Nogales, Ciarán Doyle, Eilish Broderick, Joseph Walsh

2023

Abstract

The costs of supporting hospitals are rising, bed numbers are falling and a growing population living longer will require more hospital visits over their lifetime. Thus there is a global focus on increasing the efficiency of patient throughput in a hospital. Bed management systems are still commonly paper-based and are effectively memory-less from the hospital point of view. The hospital information systems are typically billing and ordering systems with minimal information on patient movement along the patient pathway. The literature suggests that technology and shared information allow for shared views to model and predict usage to better manage finite resources. Paper-based systems work against this. This paper presents the design considerations for a bed management application developed in conjunction with a local private hospital. The application developed, provides a hospital-wide view of patient and bed status by recording and capturing touchpoints, that is patient-hospital interactions. Furthermore, it captures data electronically such that the data can be used for analysing patient presentation and bed moving with a view to improve bed management and patient throughput.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Noonan F., Nogales J., Doyle C., Broderick E. and Walsh J. (2023). Bed Management System Development. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-631-6, SciTePress, pages 376-383. DOI: 10.5220/0011690300003414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf23,
author={Flannagán Noonan and Juncal Nogales and Ciarán Doyle and Eilish Broderick and Joseph Walsh},
title={Bed Management System Development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2023},
pages={376-383},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011690300003414},
isbn={978-989-758-631-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Bed Management System Development
SN - 978-989-758-631-6
AU - Noonan F.
AU - Nogales J.
AU - Doyle C.
AU - Broderick E.
AU - Walsh J.
PY - 2023
SP - 376
EP - 383
DO - 10.5220/0011690300003414
PB - SciTePress