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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Bowen, Mary Elizabetha; * | Wingrave, Chadwick A.a; b | Klanchar, Angela | Craighead, Jeffa
Affiliations: [a] James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, HSR&D/RR&D Center of Excellence, Tampa, FL, USA | [b] School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Mary Elizabeth Bowen, PhD, Research Health Science Specialist, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, HSR&D/RR&D Center of Excellence, 8900 Grand Oak Circle, Tampa, FL 33637, USA. Tel.: +1 813 903 4299; Fax: +1 813 558 3990; E-mail: mary.bowen3@va.gov.
Abstract: The aim of this study is to describe the process of staff and patient adoption and compliance of a real-time locating system (RTLS) across two health care settings and present lessons learned. While previous work has examined the technological feasibility of tracking staff and patients in a health care setting in real-time, these studies have not described the critical adoption issues that must be overcome for deployment. The ability to track and monitor individual staff and patients presents new opportunities for improving workflow, patient health and reducing health care costs. A RTLS is introduced in both a long-term care and a polytrauma transitional rehabilitation program (PTRP) in a Veterans Hospital to track staff and patient locations and five lessons learned are presented from our experiences and responses to emergent technological, work-related and social barriers to adoption. We conclude that successful tracking in a health care environment requires time and careful consideration of existing work, policies and stakeholder needs which directly impact the efficacy of the technology.
Keywords: Radio frequency identification device (RFID), real time systems, patient compliance, patient adherence, nursing staff, staff workload
DOI: 10.3233/THC-130738
Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 191-197, 2013
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