Sunday, February 19, 2012

HIMSS 2012 - The Intelligent Hospital



The Intelligent Hospital ™ Pavilion

The RFID in Healthcare Consortium and HIMSS have partnered in 2011 and again for 2012 to deliver a series of educational programs to the life sciences industry to help raise the level of awareness for the use of a technologies in improving patient care, safety, and operating efficiencies in a healthcare, assisted living and nursing home facilities.

In 2012, the following programs are scheduled:

February 20th – One day, RFID & RTLS Technologies Symposium open to all. Learn more
“Intelligent Hospital ™ ” Destination Pavilion. Learn more


The HIGHLIGHT of this 10,800 square foot pavilion will be an “Intelligent Hospital ™” section comprised of FIVE rooms:

a complete OR suite
State of the art WAR Room
a fully equipped ICU
a Step down room
a complete ED facility

The “Intelligent Hospital ™" section of the Pavilion will provide a practical overview of a variety of technologies seamlessly integrated to provide clinicians with 'real-time' patient information delivered to their smartphones or tablets. Numerous use cases will simulate scenarios from the OR, ICU, Step-down and ED rooms that are part of the “Intelligent Hospital”.

Clinicians will see first-hand how information is collected through the use of data capture technologies and from diverse patient care environments including remote locations. The pavilion will showcase solutions which incorporate auto-ID/Bar code scanning, RFID, RTLS (real time locating systems), Sensors and Wireless technologies. The “Intelligent Hospital™” will demonstrate centralized and distributed methods of managing physiological data and alarms. The Pavilion is focused on raising the level of awareness and educating healthcare professionals.
Reprinted courtesy www.intelligenthospital.org

Editor's Note: If we have the specs for The Intelligent Hospital, can the Intelligent SNF be far behind? BB