The new Hospital La Fe will be equipped with a precursor system. "The center will be a referent in the innovation for the tracking, location and security, including the global control and management of patients and assets," comments Pilar Raro, Innovation Manager at Information Systems Department of the Hospital.
TSB-SPHERAhospital will operate automatically by using the SPHERAone technology, based in location algorithms entirely developed by TSB. Serafín Arroyo, TSB Marketing and Sales Director assures that: "In TSB we are committed to the location systems based in the ZigBee technology, which meet in a very efficient way all the requirements needed at hospital environments." Furthermore, the solution is developed on web technology, so that the access to these functionalities will be made through adapted viewers, which can easily turn any computer into clients with access to the information.
A network of 1.110 fixed beacons installed in different areas will be used to monitor the hospital. These beacons will allow locating more than 1.500 patients and more than a thousand assets in the new hospital. The whole system will be centralized in a server to manage the real time information of patients and/or assets in an easy and simple way. In addition, Health Information System (HIS) ORION, developed by the Regional Health Ministry of Valencia (Conselleria de Sanitat de la Comunidad Valenciana), will be integrated.
Resource management optimization is a key issue for every hospital, and with the system installed in the new Hospital La Fe, the location of assets in real time will be guaranteed. Moreover, this system fulfills the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation for Patient Safety: "First, do no harm," providing the correct and unequivocal location and identification of patients in every moment and place on the entire hospital.
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About Hospital Universitari I Politècnic la Fe de Valencia
The new Hospital Universitari I Politècnic la Fe de Valencia is the main health project in the
last decades in the Valencia Region, with an investment of more than 383 million Euros. La Fe will
become one of the biggest hospitals in the world thanks to its 260.000 square meters of area and its almost 1.000 hospitalization beds in individual rooms. Thanks to its 39 operating rooms it will be able to perform 110 operations per day and the hospital will become the biggest European health center. It will be a leading institution in imaging diagnosis and tumor treatment and it will keep its nature of a national referent hospital for transplant procedures, operations and complex medical treatments.
About Technologies for Health and Wellbeing (TSB)
TSB has more than ten years of research, development, implementation and project experience in the social health sector; has achieved many awards and has projects and installations in referent centers such as the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander), Hospital Doctor Pesset (Valencia), Arnau de Villanova (Valencia) and Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe in Valencia. In addition, TSB is member of international organizations such as ZigBee Alliance and Continua Health Alliance and IEEE 11073.