REAL-TIME METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY PROCESSES WITHIN A CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT.

摘要

A real-time method and system for controlling healthcare delivery processes within a clinical environment is provided. The clinical environment is monitored by real-time locating apparatus including auto-ID tags. A set of rules which are predefined so as to be representative of a combination of event data and subject data values occurring when the healthcare delivery processes are performing optimally. Collecting real-time event data which represents the locations of mobile tag-wearing subjects within the environment and events which occur within the facility. Collecting subject data which is directly or indirectly related to the tag-wearing subjects and evaluating in real-time the event data and subject data based on the set of predefined rules to measure performance of the processes. Performing at least one corrective action to improve the performance of at least one of the processes if a measured performance is less than optimal and unacceptable.