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E-healthcare Innovation -A Case Study of Nephrology Ward

According to the progressive era and technical development, many industries have already input emerging technology. In the medical industry of Taiwan, most of the hospitals have set up the operating system, data management and case history in electric facilities. It can help to deliver the information more accuracy and convenient. However, there are still many traditional models in medical regulation. The main reason is that the processes of care usually involve face to face communication. Therefore, to insure safety to the patients, human observation and communication are needed in traditional concept. To give an example of inpatient healthcare, patients always need intimate observation and treatment because the function of ward is to keep the patients safe and easy to observe. In recent years, the tradition care models have been challenged by the lack of human resources and the rise of patient safety conscious. In consequence, the service quality of ward has also been focus.
According to the official data record in 2007, there were 2 million people affected with Nephrology disease, and this population content 50 thousands patient of long term dialysis. Nephrology disease has become the most popular disease in Taiwan. This thesis is trying to focus on the huge amount of Nephrology patients, and enhance the care process with forward-looking solutions.
After inducing traditional problems and collecting emerging technologies, this research is going to produce an emerging health care model on Nephrology inpatients. The conventional process of IO record, medicament allocation, fall injury prevention, nursing record and home care after discharged from hospital would be improved in many technologies, such as lover¡¦s cup, electric scale, barcode, RFID, urgent button, PDA, mobile nursing station, intouch message board and monitoring stool. Not only building the model, the evaluation of time cost, quality and innovative services would also discuss in the research to make the emerging health care model more suitable for clinical demand.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0708109-130855
Date08 July 2009
CreatorsHong, Yi-Syuan
ContributorsYuan-Yi Chia, Ying-Chun Li, Jen-Her Wu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0708109-130855
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