Monitoring and Patient Safety: An Overview

An online-processing critical patient monitoring system- an interoperability overview

With the increasing expansion of Healthcare Information Systems, platforms for interoperability and monitoring systems have become vital tools to support the clinical practice. Under this scenario, the creation of knowledge in real-time to feed decision support tools is essential. INTCare is one the solutions that adapts the way that information is gathered and processed in order to obtain that...

Patient safety research: an overview of the global evidence.

BACKGROUND Unsafe medical care may cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally, despite imprecise estimates of the magnitude of the problem. To better understand the extent and nature of the problem of unsafe care, the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety commissioned an overview of the world's literature on patient safety research. METHODS Major patient safety topics were identified ...

Technology as applied to patient safety: an overview.

INTRODUCTION Patient safety is a tough problem: tough in cultural, technical, clinical and psychological terms and because of its massive scale and heterogeneity. Healthcare encompasses many diverse areas: the mostly routine, but sometimes highly unpredictable and hazardous world of surgery, primary care and rehabilitation where patients have established relationships with their doctors over ma...

Formalising Java Safety - An overview

Long-Term Monitoring: An Overview

This chapter consists of two parts. In the first part, we will review the indications for longterm EEG monitoring in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. This will include the differentiation of seizures and epilepsy, appropriate diagnostic and treatment options, the techniques and methods used in the EEG monitoring (ambulatory – hospital-based noninvasive and invasive video/EEG telemetry)...