Application of indoor positioning in smart healthcare

With the subdivision and development of mobile Internet, medical services have gradually begun to join the camp of intelligent construction. O2O intelligent triage, medical e-commerce, telemedicine, hospital information construction, etc. are all accelerating the Internetization and even IoTization of the medical industry. In the current medical system of hospitals, a series of basic local medical service issues such as how to track and dispatch mobile devices, how to intelligently supervise medical staff, how to monitor critically ill patients in real time, and how patients and their families can find medical clinics and wards by themselves have begun to attract people's attention.

　　If we delve into the above pain points, we can easily find that the root cause is that the location of people and objects indoors has not been solved. As a vertical extension of outdoor positioning services, domestic indoor positioning technology has been accumulating strength for a long time. Since the emergence of the iBeacon protocol, indoor positioning and navigation technology based on low-power Bluetooth has ushered in a spring of development and has penetrated into various indoor scenes, and has spawned a series of indoor positioning solutions. In order to make indoor location connections easier, Zhishi Technology launched the first indoor positioning open platform in China, focusing on providing accurate location perception services for various scenes.

　　In the special scenario of hospitals, the application of indoor positioning technology can solve the following problems:

　　Device Management

　　In hospitals that have deployed iBeacon base stations, fixed assets bound to Beacon positioning tags can be located and tracked in real time. When emergency rescue measures are taken, the equipment location information on the system background can be used to allocate supplies nearby, efficiently integrate medical resources, and quickly treat patients. In addition, hospital managers can set safe activity areas for corresponding medical equipment. Once an asset is out of the monitoring range, the system can issue an alarm in time to notify the manager to prevent loss.

　　People Management

　　In addition to intelligent location management of equipment, safe activity areas can also be set up for critically ill patients and children wearing positioning bracelets, and their health data can be recorded to provide data reference for the treatment process. If the person under guardianship leaves the safe range, the system will promptly send out an alarm signal to inform the manager to provide timely assistance. Not only that, the indoor positioning and navigation system can also monitor the work of medical staff. According to the real-time location of the staff, the system automatically counts the on-the-job time and abnormal off-the-job trajectory, and uses it as a reference indicator for work assessment.

　　Patient medical navigation

　　In terms of medical treatment, patients can use their mobile phones to navigate indoors in the hospital, search for consulting rooms and wards with one click, and quickly reach their destination with voice guidance across floors on a three-dimensional map. This indoor navigation service can reduce patients' time loss and improve the efficiency of medical treatment. Hospital management can monitor the flow of people in each time period and dynamically adjust medical work according to the number of patients to achieve optimal resource allocation.

　　The ultimate goal of smart healthcare is to connect medical resources and patients and provide efficient services between doctors and patients. Indoor positioning technology realizes this basic connection and interaction. In addition to providing smart navigation and monitoring for doctors and patients, it also saves various monitoring and management costs.