SAAS: automatic system for auto-supervision in an emergency room

Abstract

The development of powerful and affordable information technologies has increased the interest for clinical computing systems in many hospitals. The latest trend in clinical computing are the Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR) systems. These systems help to improve the quality of health care and at the same time reduce administrative costs. We believe that there are many possibilities to improve these systems. In this paper we present the ongoing work on the development of an automatic system for auto-supervision known as SAAS (Sistema Automatico de Auto Supervision), that introduces improvements to current CPR systems. The approach used in SAAS is based on patient flow and load behavior, and on information about resources capacity and availability. It strives to improve the flow of patients moving through the system and the assignment of resources to serve them. SAAS will be able to provide status on each and all patients as well as the load condition of each resource used in the system. As the SAAS system gains experience it will be able to automatically schedule patients and resources and send warning messages to specific administrative resources. SAAS was originally conceived and is being developed for the Emergency Room (ER) of local hospitals.