Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:54:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RicardoAMV.pdf: 3496779 bytes, checksum: 5e48ba1a2b67cf4883df0bcfaab403ea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-31 / The concepts of the industrial automation are being incorporated in the medical area, in other words, they also pass to be applied in the hospital automation. In this sense, researches have been developed and have usually been approached several of the problems that are pertinent to the processes that can be automated in the hospital environment. Considering that in the automation processes, an imperative factor is the communication, because the systems are usually distributed, the network for data transference becomes itself an important point in these processes. Because this network should be capable to provide the exchange of data and to guarantee the demands that are imposed by the automation process. In this context, this doctorate thesis proposed, specified, analyzed and validated the Multicycles Protocol for Hospital Automation (MP-HA), which is customized to assist the demands in these automation processes, seeking to guarantee the determinism in the communications and to optimize the factor of use of the mean of transmission / Os conceitos da automa??o industrial j? est?o a algum tempo sendo incorporados na ?rea m?dica, passando tamb?m a ser utilizados na automa??o hospitalar. Nesse sentido, v?rias pesquisas t?m sido desenvolvidas e geralmente tem abordado v?rios dos problemas que s?o pertinentes aos processos que podem ser automatizados no ambiente hospitalar. Considerando que, nos processos de automa??o, um fator imperativo ? a comunica??o, visto que os sistemas geralmente s?o distribu?dos, a rede para transfer?ncia de dados passa a ser um elemento fundamental desses processos, pois devem ser capazes de prover a troca de dados e garantir ?s exig?ncias impostas pelo processo de automa??o. ? nesse contexto, que a presente tese de doutorado prop?s, especificou, validou e analisou o PM-AH (Protocolo Multiciclos para Automa??o Hospitalar). O PM-AH ? customizado para atender as exig?ncias dos processos de monitoramento de pacientes (redes de controle) em ambientes hospitalares e visa garantir o determinismo nas comunica??es, otimizando o fator de utiliza??o do meio de transmiss?o

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:54:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CeciliaRML_TESE.pdf: 2405004 bytes, checksum: b79db46caa488d92a5933e45e80ca647 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-10 / The area of the hospital automation has been the subject a lot of research, addressing relevant issues which can be automated, such as: management and control (electronic medical records, scheduling appointments, hospitalization, among others); communication (tracking patients, staff and materials), development of medical, hospital and laboratory equipment; monitoring (patients, staff and materials); and aid to medical diagnosis (according to each speciality). This thesis presents an architecture for a patient monitoring and alert systems. This architecture is based on intelligent systems techniques and is applied in hospital automation, specifically in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the patient monitoring in hospital environment. The main goal of this architecture is to transform the multiparameter monitor data into useful information, through the knowledge of specialists and normal parameters of vital signs based on fuzzy logic that allows to extract information about the clinical condition of ICU patients and give a pre-diagnosis. Finally, alerts are dispatched to medical professionals in case any abnormality is found during monitoring. After the validation of the architecture, the fuzzy logic inferences were applied to the trainning and validation of an Artificial Neural Network for classification of the cases that were validated a priori with the fuzzy system / A ?rea da automa??o hospitalar tem sido alvo de muitas pesquisas, abordando problemas pertinentes que podem ser automatizados, como: gerenciamento e controle (prontu?rio eletr?nico, marca??o de consulta, internamento, entre outros); comunica??o (rastreamento de pacientes, materiais e funcion?rios); desenvolvimento de equipamentos m?dicos, hospitalares e laboratoriais; monitoramento (pacientes, materiais e funcion?rios); e aux?lio ao diagn?stico m?dico (de acordo com cada especialidade). Esta tese de doutorado apresenta uma Arquitetura de um Sistema Inteligente de Monitoramento e Envio de Alertas de Pacientes (SIMAp). A arquitetura est? baseada em t?cnicas de sistemas inteligentes e aplicada na automa??o hospitalar, mais especificamente em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) para monitoramento de pacientes. O objetivo do SIMAp ? a transforma??o dos dados do monitor multiparam?trico em informa??es, por meio do conhecimento dos especialistas e dos par?metros de normalidade dos sinais vitais de pacientes, utilizando l?gica fuzzy na extra??o das informa??es a respeito do quadro cl?nico de pacientes internados em UTI. Por fim, alertas s?o gerados e podem ser enviados para a equipe m?dica, caso seja encontrada alguma anormalidade no monitoramento. Ap?s a valida??o da arquitetura, as infer?ncias oriundas do modelo fuzzy foram aplicadas no treinamento e valida??o de uma RNA para a classifica??o das situa??es previstas no modelo, resultando no pr?-diagn?sticos

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunoGA_DISSERT.pdf: 1765683 bytes, checksum: 36a019ab0774ddb05d83c6ceb1679e89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-10 / Hospital Automation is an area that is constantly growing. The emergency of new technologies and hardware is transforming the processes more efficient. Nevertheless, some of the hospital processes are still being performed manually, such as monitoring of patients that is considered critical because it involves human lives. One of the factors that should be taken into account during a monitoring is the agility to detect any abnormality in vital signs of patients, as well as warning of this anomaly to the medical team involved. So, this master's thesis aims to develop an architecture to automate this process of monitoring and reporting of possible alert to a professional, so that emergency care can be done effectively. The computing mobile was used to improve the communication by distributing messages between a central located into the hospital and the mobile carried by the duty / A Automa??o Hospitalar consiste numa ?rea que est? em constante crescimento. Os processos envolvidos est?o sendo informatizados e automatizados cada vez mais com o surgimento de novas tecnologias e novos hardwares. Apesar disso, muitos dos processos envolvidos ainda est?o sendo realizados de forma manual, como ? o caso do monitoramento de pacientes, considerado um processo cr?tico por estar envolvido com vidas humanas. Um dos fatores que deve ser levado em conta durante um monitoramento ? a agilidade na detec??o de alguma anomalia nos sinais vitais de pacientes, assim como o aviso desta anomalia ? equipe m?dica envolvida. Visando isto, o presente trabalho de mestrado visa apresentar uma arquitetura para automatizar este processo de monitoramento e comunica??o de poss?veis alertas a um profissional da ?rea, para que o atendimento de urg?ncias possa ser feito de forma eficaz. Foi utilizada a computa??o m?vel e distribu?da para a comunica??o e envio de mensagens entre uma central localizada no hospital, e o dispositivo m?vel portado pelo plantonista

Personnel shortages and ineffective healthcare is a global problem. While other industries have used automation and robotics to solve similar problems, the number of automation solutions linked to basic care in Swedish public hospitals remains low. Therefore, this thesis aims to investigate factors that affects the collaboration between the automation industry and Swedish university hospitals. Test bed as an innovation tool is also studied and value-creating factors linked to it are mapped. The research questions were answered by conducting 30 interviews with representatives of the automation industry, university hospitals and other test beds, as well as a procurement lawyer. By using grounded theory, a theory was built based on the collected empirics. This study showed that there is an interest from both parties (automation industry and hospitals) to work together. The industry has the technical know-how needed to develop solutions to hospital environments, but economic factors as well as the procurement processes are too costly and time consuming to engage in these collaborations. Test bed is a suitable platform for product development and value-creating factors are: a clear aim and clear requirement specifications during the projects conducted on the test bed. The results give insight in factors that affect collaborations between automation industry and hospitals, and parallels can be drawn to other industries and Swedish government-controlled businesses. The findings also shine a light on valuable aspects to consider when implementing a test bed.