Internet of Things and New Technologies for Tracking Perioperative Patients With an Innovative Model for Operating Room Scheduling: Protocol for a Development and Feasibility Study

• DOI: 10.2196/45477
• Publication Date: 2023-07-05T12:30:27Z
• Authors: Eleonora Bottani; Valentina Bellini; Monica Mordonini; Mattia Pellegrino; Gianfranco Lombardo; Beatrice Franchi; Michelangelo Craca; Elena Bignami
• Keywords: Operating room management

Management of operating rooms is a critical point in health care organizations because surgical departments represent significant cost hospital budgets. Therefore, it increasingly important that there effective planning elective, emergency, and day surgery optimization both the human physical resources available, always maintaining high level treatment. This would lead to reduction patient waiting lists better performance not only but also entire hospital.This study aims automatically collect data from real scenario develop an integrated technological-organizational model optimizes block resources.Each tracked located time by wearing bracelet sensor with unique identifier. Exploiting indoor location, software architecture able spent for every step inside block. method does any way affect assistance receives protects their privacy; fact, after expressing informed consent, each will be associated anonymous identification number.The preliminary results are promising, making feasible functional. Times recorded much more precise than those collected humans reported organization's information system. In addition, machine learning can exploit historical collection predict required according patient's specific profile. Simulation applied reproduce system's functioning, evaluate current performance, identify strategies improve efficiency block.This functional approach improves short- long-term planning, facilitating interaction between various professionals involved block, optimizing management available resources, guaranteeing efficient system.ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05106621; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05106621.DERR1-10.2196/45477.