This document discusses innovations in clinical security and mobility at hospitals in the Valencia region of Spain. It describes a solution using identification bracelets, mobile beacons, and a central server to locate and track patients and assets in real time. The system provides secure identification, effective tracking and analytics, and mobility of information. It has been implemented at the new Hospital La Fe in Valencia to guarantee clinical security for over 1,500 patients and 1,000 assets across its 260,000 square meter facility.

1. Last innovations on Clinical Security
and Mobility at Valencia region
Serafin Arroyo
www.tsbtecnologias.com
2011

2. About us
Development, licensing and
marketing solutions and products for
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 15 years of experience are the
background of our group. Company
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solutions and services based on
information technologies and
communication for the health and
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3. Introduction: Health strategies
Clinical security at hospitals is a key issue
•World Alliance for Patient Safety
Washington DC, USA — 27 October 2004
INTRODUCTION
"Please do me no harm“
•CISP (Centro de Investigación para la. Seguridad Clínica de los Pacientes)
•Alert nº1: False identification of patients
•Alert nº4: Mistakes on Surgery
•Alert nº7: Safe administration of drugs and
medicaments
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4. What is required at Health Facilities?
•Information about Location of patients and assets
•Room level approach
•Area level approach
•Real time access to information
•Centralized system
REQUIREMENTS
•Available for medical and
administrative staff
R&D and
•On real time, everywhere LABORATORIES EMERGENCY
•Secure identification DOCTOR´S
•Automatic security OFFICES
HOSPITAL
ENTRANCE
visitors
•Proximity identification
MAIN ENTRANCE
•Tracking and analytics ENTRANCE: tests TECHNICAL
•Record the patient’s BUILDING
habitual movements ADMINISTRATION
•Areas and rooms
•Define alerts
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5. The solution:
Overview, components
and functionalities
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6. Overview
Identification, tracking and monitoring patient
positions at hospital and clinics on real time.
Clinical security and secure identification
Effective tracking and analytics
OVERVIEW
Real time location of patients and assets
Control of time processes and optimization of
resources and planning of agendas of clinical
staff.
Mobility information
Individual bracelet for each patient
SYSTEM Mobile PDAs or tablet PCs to
receive information
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Central configurable system

7. Components
Mobile beacons
Server Access point mobile to the system
Network everywhere and everytime
coordinator,
location engine
and
functionalities
How it works?
Bracelets
Beacons
Wear by
patients and Network (RF and/
assets, transmit or ethernet to
periodic ZigBee transmit from
frames bracelets back
to the server
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8. Identification
Clinical Security
FUNCTIONALITIES
•Through the nearest reading of the bracelets
•In specific areas with continuous real time information
•Integrated at nurse trolleys for every process
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9. Location and tracking
 Security
 Assets
 Patients
Combined right
Place
FUNCTIONALITIES
Time
ID
 Real time access
 Traceability
 Patient’s movements and assets
 Recorded and shown in statistics such as length of time spent in one
place, length of time needed for going from one room to another etc…
 Usage of areas and rooms, load and flow or patients, etc.
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10. The central system: easy to use, flexible
configuration and complete information
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11. Mobility: new development for clinical security
and process optimization
New features inside ORION-Clinic.
Touch-screen functionalities for Nurse Trolleys.
Easy and secure way to day to day work and processes. 11

12. New Hospital La Fe in Valencia: a reality
TSB-SPHERAhospital chosen to provide location, tracking and monitoring
of patients and assets in the new Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain.
“Guarantees the clinical security of patients,
optimizes daily work and facilitates the entire
hospital management.” //
• Integrated with HIS (ORION-Clinic)
1.110 fixed
• Web technology, everywhere and any time beacons
Locate 1.500 patients
• Mobility at 82 nurse trolleys and 1.000 assets on
real time
260.000 square meters
1.000 hospitalization beds in individual rooms.
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39 operating rooms, 1100 operations per day

13. Serafin Arroyo
Marketing & Sales Director
Ronda Auguste y Louis Lumiere 23, Nave 13
Parque Tecnológico de Valencia
46980 · Paterna, Valencia · Spain
Tel: +34 96 182 71 77
Fax: +34 96 182 94 15
serafin.arroyo@tsbtecnologias.es
http://www.tsbtecnologias.com
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