Towards a prototype medical system for devices vigilance and patient safety

Abstract

For all healthcare institutions and organizations, patient safety is of the utmost importance. A factor that influences patient safety is the existence (or not) of observed adverse events associated with medical devices. Upon the detection of adverse events, all healthcare providers that own the affected medical devices should be promptly notified. In this paper we present the core of a prototype system for medical devices vigilance and patient safety. We present the architecture of this system, the way that it detects the healthcare providers that need to be notified through an entity matching algorithm, as well as briefly present its user interface.