Hospitals do, of course, already contain intelligent people, but Professor Jang Byung-chul of Yonsei University Health System wants to fill them up with intelligent objects as well. "The idea of an intelligent hospital is to give out the first class service with humanity, and service in trust and in a natural environment. By providing services for customers with information and technology, we will take care of patients with safety and reliability with an effective administration," he said. The intelligent hospital idea is about creating an environment that is safe and comfortable like home.
Safety comes from a smart system to give the best medical services with minimum errors at bed side. One of the solutions to this objective is Electronic Health Records.
Such an EHR system will provide "safety by reducing medical errors, improve quality of care, anytime-anywhere access, research through a clinical data repository, and it also will enhance efficiency of services via risk mitigation," according to Professor Jang's presentation at the IT21 Conference.
With this EHR system, the physical data of a patient can be easily found regardless of time without having to go through the files of papers. I-Hospital performs operations with robots to reduce complications and the time a patient has to stay in the hospital.
The robots can overcome the limitation of human performance and add technology to improve surgeon accuracy.
Another example of a smart medical system is Filmless Service. It allows the fast examination of radiological images. Such services may integrate the health care enterprise to share and exchange a large volume of radiological images. Such services will also enable multi-modalities and dynamic imaging.
The intelligent hospital even has an electronic nursing system to guide easy perception of tasks per hour. By caring for the patient with accurate duty transfer, patients will experience an easy understanding of critical care.
"Mobile hospital information system targeting ubiquitous hospital is for a better, systematic, and accurate patient care anytime and anywhere," Professor Jang stated.
The cell phones will serve as a smart care device that can allow you to see the lab results and x-ray images while the patient is on the move. As the technology develops, people's best interest is safety and health. Therefore, the safe and convenient medical care will continue to be on people's demand and be left as an undying homework for IT.
