Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2017
Point-of-Care Testing Across Rural and Remote Emergency Departments in Australia: Staff Perceptions of Operational Impact.
New South Wales (NSW) Health Pathology is implementing one of the world's largest managed PoCT services across rural and remote Emergency Departments (EDs) in New South Wales, Australia to improve patient access to care. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain a context-rich understanding of the operational impact of the NSW rollout of PoCT across rural and remote ED settings as experienced by frontline clinical staff. ⋯ These factors have a potentially important role in saving lives. Staff also identified innovative and disruptive challenges to clinical work patterns associated with PoCT implementation, particularly in relation to work flows, resource allocation and the governance arrangements.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2017
Cybersecurity and the Medical Device Product Development Lifecycle.
Protecting connected medical devices from evolving cyber related threats, requires a continuous lifecycle approach whereby cybersecurity is integrated within the product development lifecycle and both complements and re-enforces the safety risk management processes therein. This contribution reviews the guidance relating to medical device cybersecurity within the product development lifecycle.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2017
Development of a Quick SOFA-Based Sepsis Clinical Decision Support System in a Tertiary Hospital Emergency Department.
New definition of sepsis introduced quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score. A qSOFA-based sepsis decision support system was designed and developed in an emergency departement. The system has functions of autmatically retrieving qSOFA score, 3 and 6 hours of sepsis and septic shock treatment bundle, semi-automatic calculation of SOFA score, etc. Early usage and user requests are needed to find aspects of improvement.