SKH plans to use more of such technology in operating theatres, wards and at the emergency department.
Category: infection control
Sengkang Hospital’s RTLS has helped track patients
SKH can do contact tracing quicker and able to isolate patients quicker.
Real-time Surveillance System helps A Hospital Fight Against The Coronavirus Pandemic
Inside A Hospital’s Fight Against The Coronavirus Pandemic | CNA inside | Sep 13, 2020 An article featuring the Singapore National Centre for Infectious Disease (NCID) was published by “CNA inside” on 13 Sep 2020 entitled “Inside a hospital’s fight against the Coronavirus Pandemic”. In the article, the real-time location tracking and contact tracing surveillance…
Managing COVID-19: The TTSH Experience
By Dean Koh | HealthITNews | May 26, 2020 Technologies adopted to tackle the COVID-19 situation at TTSH included the Staff Surveillance System (S3), Command, Control and Communications (C3) system and a real time location system (RTLS). Read the full article at HealthITNews Extracts from HealthITNews: One of the innovations that has come into play during…
Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, confirmed cases in Singapore will grow over the next few months, thus increasing the number of isolated patients that require close monitoring. This will result in higher demand for clinical resources. Technologies for automating vitals signs taking will help to ensure that patients are effectively monitored, keeping…
Wearable Continuous Vital Signs Monitors for NUH and TTSH General Ward Patients
Cadi Scientific won the NHG Healthcare Supplier Awards 2017 for productivity improvement (merit award). The poster is entitled “World’s First Wearable Continuous Vital Signs Monitors for NUH and TTSH General Ward Patients” shown below. To improve patient safety in general wards while reducing nurses’ workload, Cadi Scientific has introduced and implemented the continuous vital signs…
Staff Contact Tracing and Hand Hygiene
To reduce hospital acquired infection and be pandemic ready.
Hong Kong’s Tuen Mun Hospital evaluates the use of a wireless temperature monitoring system
Conference abstract (extract), June 28, 2010: RFID technology can effectively enhance patient experience as well as minimising the risk of infection by nursing staff due to the elimination of unnecessary contact with infectious patient. Patient safety could also be enhanced as high fever alert can be made with real-time frequent recording of the body temperature…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital uses RFID to monitor patients’ temperature
RFID Journal, article (extract), January 28, 2009: One of Singapore’s busiest health-care facilities finds that the system improves patient care, reduces labor costs and provides better clinical data. Tan Tock Seng Hospital first rolled out radio frequency identification technology in 2007 to track more than 1,200 patients throughout its facility, and to be able to…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital uses automated wireless temperature monitoring to enhance patient care
Straits Times, news articles (extract), December 29, 2008: Devices taped to patients relay the data, freeing nurses for other tasks … The tiny, wireless device automatically took the 83-year-old’s temperature and beamed the readings to the laptops of the nurses who worked in her ward. The setup allowed the hospital to monitor Madam Lee’s body…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital publishes findings on a wireless temperature monitoring device
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore; abstract (extract); October 2006: In the era of epidemics, temperature monitoring is crucial in determining the rate of infection and evaluating treatment plan. This revolutionary new wireless temperature monitoring device, which is able to detect skin temperature continuously, will minimise contact with patients, and enable the analysis of trends in body temperature to aid…
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