Challenges and issues of geolocation in clinical environment

Issom, David-Zacharie; Hagry, Claire; Wodia Mendo, Laetitia; Seng, Henry; Ehrler, Frédéric; Lovis, Christian

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-447

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Title		Challenges and issues of geolocation in clinical environment
Authors		Issom, David-Zacharie Hagry, Claire Wodia Mendo, Laetitia Seng, Henry Ehrler, Frédéric Lovis, Christian
Published in		Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 2012, vol. 180, p. 447-51
Abstract		Reaching a good indoor geolocation without deploying extensive and expensive infrastructure is a challenge, because satellite positioning system is not available indoors. Geolocation could be of major use in healthcare facilities; to help care providers, visitors and patients to navigate, to improve movements and flows efficiency or to implement location-awareness systems. A system able to provide the location of a person in a hospital requires precision, multi-floors and obstacles management and should also perform in basements and outdoors. Such system needs also to be insensitive to environmental variations occurring in a hospital. These changes may be various kinds of obstacles. These can be the displacement of metallic objects, metallic machines, strong magnetic fields or simply human displacement. A system conforming to the above requirements can also answer various security questions, operational workflow management but also assist movement of people.
Keywords		Environment — Geographic Information Systems — Patient Identification Systems — Switzerland — Telemedicine
Identifiers		DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-447 PMID: 22874230
Full text		Article (Author postprint) (168 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE Article (Published version) (126 Kb) - Free access
Structures		Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de radiologie et informatique médicale
Research group		Interfaces Homme-machine en milieu clinique (610)
Citation (ISO format)		ISSOM, David-Zacharie et al. Challenges and issues of geolocation in clinical environment. In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2012, vol. 180, p. 447-51. doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-101-4-447 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:31473