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Juan C. Dueñas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

P. H. Frisch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • RFID in Today’s Intelligent Hospital Enhancing Patient Care & Optimizing Hospital Operations
    2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA), 2019
    Co-Authors: P. H. Frisch
    Abstract:

    Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment has driven hospitals to critically evaluate and optimize their operations to enhance patient treatment and care, while focusing on financial constraints. The hospitals have moved to support an increasing outpatient care environment, driving increasing in-patient acuity levels. At many institutions these changes have been accompanied with regulatory and financial constraints impacting the operating budgets. Specific initiatives, such as the Joint Commission's patient safety goals, electronic medical record and meaning full use have driven institutions to re-design their operations and processes, using technology solutions to achieve these goals, while optimizing Operational Workflow and resource utilization. To deal with the complexity of patient care Workflows, enhance patient diagnosis, treatment, care, safety and satisfaction, the design of Intelligent Hospitals has focused on the integration of diverse technologies, to provide a seamless exchange of information. This has driven hospitals to integrate RFID into a variety of hospital operations and processes. The overall cost of an RFID deployment not only includes the capital purchase but more significantly the on-going Operational cost and impact. RFID systems represent a significant investment were the return on investment is realized through the deployment of a broad set of applications and use cases. RFID includes two main types of solutions, including institutional visualization and tracking and localized choke point solution including validations and process verification. This paper outlines the strategies for the deployment of large scale RTLS / RFID solutions based on 10+ years of experience at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). MSK has deployed 12,000 active tags and 35,000 passive tags associated to medical devices. The strategies include, system scaling, requirements for accuracy and resolution, program management, managing an increasing quantity of tags and tag types, monitoring the effectiveness of the solution and managing impacts of complexity and interference, as well as establishing dedicated support model and structure. The paper highlights multiple uses targeting enhanced asset management, optimized Workflow and process validation.

  • New roles & responsibilities of hospital biomedical engineering
    2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2014
    Co-Authors: P. H. Frisch, B. Stone, P. Booth
    Abstract:

    Over the last decade the changing healthcare environment has required hospitals and specifically Biomedical Engineering to critically evaluate, optimize and adapt their operations. The focus is now on new technologies, changes to the environment of care, support requirements and financial constraints. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), an NIH-designated comprehensive cancer center, has been transitioning to an increasing outpatient care environment. This transition is driving an increase in-patient acuity coupled with the need for added urgency of support and response time. New technologies, regulatory requirements and financial constraints have impacted operating budgets and in some cases, resulted in a reduction in staffing. Specific initiatives, such as the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, requirements for an electronic medical record, meaningful use and ICD10 have caused institutions to reevaluate their operations and processes including requiring Biomedical Engineering to manage new technologies, integrations and changes in the electromagnetic environment, while optimizing Operational Workflow and resource utilization. This paper addresses the new and expanding responsibilities and approach of Biomedical Engineering organizations, specifically at MSKCC. It is suggested that our experience may be a template for other organizations facing similar problems. Increasing support is necessary for Medical Software - Medical Device Data Systems in the evolving wireless environment, including RTLS and RFID. It will be necessary to evaluate the potential impact on the growing electromagnetic environment, on connectivity resulting in the need for dynamic and interactive testing and the growing demand to establish new and needed Operational synergies with Information Technology operations and other Operational groups within the institution, such as nursing, facilities management, central supply, and the user departments.

Lorenzo Bruzzone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Distributed Geospatial Data Processing Functionality to Support Collaborative and Rapid Emergency Response
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2009
    Co-Authors: Dominik Brunner, Guido Lemoine, Francois Xavier Thoorens, Lorenzo Bruzzone
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a novel approach to integrate the latest generation very high-resolution earth observation imagery into the Operational Workflow of geospatial information support for emergency response actions. The core concept behind this approach is the implementation of an image pyramid structure that allows each image tile to be addressed separately. We propose a novel way to collate geospatial feature data from distributed sources and integrate them in visualization and image processing. The system components enable rapid collaborative mapping, support for in situ data collection, customized on-demand image processing, and geospatial data queries and near instantaneous map visualization. We adapt functional software modules that are available in the public and open source domain. The approach is demonstrated with a test case in a rapid damage assessment scenario using very high-resolution optical satellite QuickBird and IKONOS imagery over Southern Lebanon from 2006.

Frédéric Desprez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Self-Healing of Operational Workflow Incidents on Distributed Computing Infrastructures
    2012 12th IEEE ACM International Symposium on Cluster Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012), 2012
    Co-Authors: Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Tristan Glatard, Frédéric Desprez
    Abstract:

    Distributed computing infrastructures are commonly used through scientific gateways, but operating these gateways requires important human intervention to handle Operational incidents. This paper presents a self-healing process that quantifies incident degrees of Workflow activities from metrics measuring long-tail effect, application efficiency, data transfer issues, and site-specific problems. These metrics are simple enough to be computed online and they make little assumptions on the application or resource characteristics. Incidents are classified in levels and associated to sets of healing actions that are selected based on association rules modeling correlations between incident levels. The healing process is parametrized on real application traces acquired in production on the European Grid Infrastructure. Implementation and experimental results obtained in the Virtual Imaging Platform show that the proposed method speeds up execution up to a factor of 4 and properly detects unrecoverable errors.

  • CCGRID - Self-Healing of Operational Workflow Incidents on Distributed Computing Infrastructures
    2012 12th IEEE ACM International Symposium on Cluster Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012), 2012
    Co-Authors: Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Tristan Glatard, Frédéric Desprez
    Abstract:

    Distributed computing infrastructures are commonly used through scientific gateways, but operating these gateways requires important human intervention to handle Operational incidents. This paper presents a self-healing process that quantifies incident degrees of Workflow activities from metrics measuring long-tail effect, application efficiency, data transfer issues, and site-specific problems. These metrics are simple enough to be computed online and they make little assumptions on the application or resource characteristics. Incidents are classified in levels and associated to sets of healing actions that are selected based on association rules modeling correlations between incident levels. The healing process is parametrized on real application traces acquired in production on the European Grid Infrastructure. Implementation and experimental results obtained in the Virtual Imaging Platform show that the proposed method speeds up execution up to a factor of 4 and properly detects unrecoverable errors.

Julio Mellado - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.