An automated information system for families of patients in the operation room based on EMR data
Jo, E.-m.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 192: 1018
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 23920792 Document Number: 665513
When children undergo surgery, the parents waiting for them outside the room feel extreme anxiety. SNUH was a full EMR hospital. But nurses had to manually operate an electronic display board which provided information regarding the progresses of the operations. The parents had to be located in front of the board. It was a unilateral and passive system. Therefore, we were about to improve the system to provide efficient information satisfying both parents and nurses. This service, which connected to the EMR system to provide real time location of patients undergoing operations, provide information through an electronic display board outside the operating room and SMS messages. We could reduce uneasiness of patients' families, increase satisfactions, and further, not only contribute to establishing the improved service of SNUH but also lessening unnecessary duties of nurses.