SKH plans to use more of such technology in operating theatres, wards and at the emergency department.
Category: Inpatient Wards
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 Hospital Wide Mobile Assets Centrally with Real Time Location System (RTLS)
30% Equipment Reduction saving $900K.
New Sengkang Health awards campuswide RTLS tender to Cadi Scientific
Using next generation RTLS technologies to drive greater patient safety and workflow automation come 2018
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…
Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Changi General Hospital, and IHiS win Asia Pacific HIMSS Elsevier Award
Channel NewsAsia, news article (extract), October 22, 2013: Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Changi General Hospital and IHiS — the Health Ministry’s IT arm — have clinched the Asia Pacific HIMSS Elsevier Award for using innovative techniques to improve patient care. One technique employed by Tan Tock Seng is a bedside tablet which records a patient’s…
Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University (China) uses information technology to improve service quality and efficiency
中国数字医学 (China Digital Medicine), article in Chinese (summary), March 2013: The Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University (China) uses information technology as part of its long-term plan to propel itself into the fast lane of the information highway. This technology was applied to sterile supplies traceability using barcodes, RFID, and mobile computing techniques; automated vital…
Singapore General Hospital’s new bed management system shortens waiting time for beds
News articles (summary), September 2012: Singapore General Hospital (SGH) implemented the world’s largest bed management system based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in May 2009. The system allows hospital staff to check patient status and search for suitable beds electronically in real time. With this system, the time from the moment a patient is charged to…
Medical device interface helps TTSH nurses halve the time for recording vital signs
Straits Times, news article (extract), June 28, 2012: Nurses at Tan Tock Seng Hospital have nearly halved the time they take to record patients’ blood pressure, pulse rate and other vital signs, thanks to a gadget which captures data on the go. The Medical Device Interface （MDI）— which runs on a tablet computer — automatically…
SingHealth’s CIO recounts experience with implementation of automated bed management system
Enterprise Innovation (Internet), interview, September 28, 2011: In this interview, SingHealth’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) recounted his experience with implementation of an automated bed management system at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). “… what the old system did not have is the visibility to the patient transfers done at the wards … We needed a way…
Singapore General Hospital improves bed management with automated system
Hospital IT Europe, article (summary), summer 2010: To better manage bed resources, Singapore General Hospital deployed the Eclipsys patient flow software in integration with wireless patient location tracking system from Cadi Scientific. The integrated system significantly improved operational efficiency in patient flow from admission to discharge. In particular, it reduced daily average overflow by 12%,…
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