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NURSE TRACKING WITH REAL TIME LOCATING SYSTEM
Consider the following scenario: Progress Healthcare, a local
hospital in South Carolina, recently installed a nurse tracking
system. This Real Time Locating System (RTLS) from Stanley
Healthcare is an expansion of the commonly known Aeroscout,
which is used for asset tracking. The goal is to understand workflow
streams and utilize the data to streamline the workflows through a
LEAN event. Data is captured from the employee badges and sent
wirelessly to a local server and then sent to an online database for
business intelligence analysis and reporting. Progress Healthcare
also sends patient monitoring information to the floor monitoring
server and then to the electronic medical record (EMR). The
monitoring data is also stripped of personal health information
(PHI) and sent to the same Internet server to correlate tracking
information with each room. Understanding staff movement is seen
by leadership and management as efficient. It is also a way to justify
chargers and to validate the level of care a patient receives. Many of
the staff nurses and assistants see it as a distraction and as another
time consuming measure that diminishes patient care.
Write a 350-to-700-word summary in which you address the
following:
-Analyze the impact of using the Internet to communicate consumer
information.
-Assess the impact of organizational research and the use of IT to
collect data.
-Discuss the ethical implications of clinical efficiency research with
monitoring and tracking data.