SMART-An Integrated Wireless System for Monitoring Unattended Patients

Dorothy W. Curtis; Esteban J. Pino; Jacob M. Bailey; Eugene I. Shih; Jason Waterman; Staal A. Vinterbo; Thomas O. Stair; John V. Guttag; Robert Greenes; Lucila Ohno-Machado

doi:10.1197/jamia.M2016

SMART-An Integrated Wireless System for Monitoring Unattended Patients

Dorothy W. Curtis, Esteban J. Pino, Jacob M. Bailey, Eugene I. Shih, Jason Waterman, Staal A. Vinterbo, Thomas O. Stair, John V. Guttag, Robert Greenes, Lucila Ohno-Machado

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Monitoring vital signs and locations of certain classes of ambulatory patients can be useful in overcrowded emergency departments and at disaster scenes, both on-site and during transportation. To be useful, such monitoring needs to be portable and low cost, and have minimal adverse impact on emergency personnel, e.g., by not raising an excessive number of alarms. The SMART (Scalable Medical Alert Response Technology) system integrates wireless patient monitoring (ECG, SpO₂), geo-positioning, signal processing, targeted alerting, and a wireless interface for caregivers. A prototype implementation of SMART was piloted in the waiting area of an emergency department and evaluated with 145 post-triage patients. System deployment aspects were also evaluated during a small-scale disaster-drill exercise.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	44-53
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Volume	15
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.M2016
State	Published - Jan 2008

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