A group of researchers at the Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working together to develop SMART: Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology, a system for patient tracking and monitoring that begins at the emergency site and continues through transport, triage, stabilization, and transfer between external sites and health care facilities as well as within a health care facility. The system is based on a scalable location-aware monitoring architecture, with remote transmission from medical sensors and display of information on personal digital assistants, detection logic for recognizing events requiring action, and logistic support for optimal response. Patients and providers, as well as critical medical equipment will be located by SMART on demand, and remote alerting from the medical sensors can trigger responses from the nearest available providers. The emergency department at the Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston will serve as the testbed for initial deployment, refinement, and evaluation of SMART.
Smart in the News
- Wireless in the ER Waiting Room - The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2006 (Subscription required to read full article.)
- Wireless in the ER Waiting Room - Technology Review, May 5, 2006
- Waist packs track ER patients - The Boston Globe, March 21, 2006
- Boston Hospital Uses Ultrasound to Track Patients, EWEEK, March 11, 2006
- Testing Ultrasound to Track, Monitor Patients, - RFID Journal, March 15, 2006
- Ultrasound To Track Emergency Patients,- Wireless Healthcare, March 10, 2006
- Boston Hospital Uses Ultrasound to Track Patients, - ExtremeNano, March 11, 2006
- Indoor Positioning System Installed To Track Patients, - Telematics Journal, March 7, 2006
- Sonitor Ultrasound Indoor Positioning System Installed at Brigham & Women's Hospital as Part of SMART Patient Tracking and Monitoring Project,-Yahoo.com Finance March 7, 2006