Implementation and Field Evaluation of Location-based Nursing Record System QuickCareRecord

Haruka Wada, Zhihua Zhang, Manato Fujimoto, Yutaka Arakawa, Keiichi Yasumoto: Implementation and Field Evaluation of Location-based Nursing Record System QuickCareRecord. In: 2020 14th International Symposium on Medical Information Communication Technology (ISMICT) (ISMICT2020), Nara, Japan, 2020.

Abstract

In Japan, the demand for nursing homes is increasing due to the increasing
number of elderly people. Therefore, the burden on care work for nursing
staff becomes very large. In a nursing home staff spend a large amount of
time in making care reports which reduces the time for doing the essential
care for residents (i.e., elderly people). Thus, to reduce the work burden
for staff, the system on which staff can create reports easily and
instantly is needed. In our previous work, to reduce the burden of making
care reports, we have propose a location-based nursing record system,
called ``QuickCareRecord,'' which can automatically switch information
input screen and its items depending on location. However, this work
conducted only a limited evaluation by emulated environment. In this paper,
we actually implement the proposed system by using BLE beacon and small
terminal based on our previous work. To show the effectiveness of the
proposed system, we carry out the experiment in the actual nursing home. As
a result, we show that the proposed system can identify the care location
and care recipient approximately, staff can make care records easily and
accurately.

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    @inproceedings{Wada2005:Implementation,
    title = {Implementation and Field Evaluation of Location-based Nursing Record System QuickCareRecord},
    author = {Haruka Wada and Zhihua Zhang and Manato Fujimoto and Yutaka Arakawa and 
    Keiichi Yasumoto},
    year  = {2020},
    date = {2020-05-20},
    booktitle = {2020 14th International Symposium on Medical Information Communication 
    Technology (ISMICT) (ISMICT2020)},
    address = {Nara, Japan},
    abstract = {In Japan, the demand for nursing homes is increasing due to the increasing 
    number of elderly people. Therefore, the burden on care work for nursing 
    staff becomes very large. In a nursing home staff spend a large amount of 
    time in making care reports which reduces the time for doing the essential 
    care for residents (i.e., elderly people). Thus, to reduce the work burden 
    for staff, the system on which staff can create reports easily and 
    instantly is needed. In our previous work, to reduce the burden of making 
    care reports, we have propose a location-based nursing record system, 
    called ``QuickCareRecord,'' which can automatically switch information 
    input screen and its items depending on location. However, this work 
    conducted only a limited evaluation by emulated environment. In this paper, 
    we actually implement the proposed system by using BLE beacon and small 
    terminal based on our previous work. To show the effectiveness of the 
    proposed system, we carry out the experiment in the actual nursing home. As 
    a result, we show that the proposed system can identify the care location 
    and care recipient approximately, staff can make care records easily and 
    accurately.},
    keywords = {Activity recognition},
    pubstate = {published},
    tppubtype = {inproceedings}
    }