Smart hospitals and A&E departments in Hong Kong: Advantages, considerations and way forward.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Lui, Chun Tat; Yee Wu, Clara Wing; Ho, Kendall
- Source
- Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. Nov2021, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p335-337. 3p.
- Subject
- *DIGITAL health
*HOSPITALS
*COVID-19 pandemic
*DOCUMENTATION
*PEDIATRIC emergency services
*MEDICAL triage
*ARTIFICIAL intelligence
- Language
- ISSN
- 1024-9079
The concept of smart hospital is not new, but its development has unprecedentedly been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughput and performance dashboard on ED operation running in real-time manner would facilitate ED managers to maintain smooth ED operation or even predict and anticipate the service surge. The ED health big data would also have potential impact on the development of geriatric and ambulatory emergency medicine to accurately identify high-acuity patients and stratify low-risk patients for ambulatory care. [Extracted from the article]