Abstract

Hospital environments tend to be very ineffective, resulting in the lost of valuable resources at all times. Current approaches that address this problem tend to ignore the patient, looking only at the economics. In our view, these systems must be patient centred, and for that reason, we look at the development of tools that can improve the use of timely resources in such environments. The solution presented in this work consists in the use of personal memory assistants to monitor single entities, linked to a centralized management system. The main goal is to regulate key stakeholders, such as physicians, nurses or devices, in terms of their daily activities, location or tasks. It is also presented the architecture of such system, a prototype and the expected results