Title: Towards a pervasive information system for patient triage and referral in emergency departments

Authors: Abdelhadi Bouain; Abdelaziz El Fazziki; Mohammed Sadgal; Mohamed Nezar Abourraja

Addresses: Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Computer Systems Engineering, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco ' Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Computer Systems Engineering, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco ' Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Computer Systems Engineering, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, Morocco ' Applied Mathematics Laboratory of Le Havre, Normandy University, 7614, France

Abstract: Every day, many people come to emergency departments; the orientation and placement of these patients in a waiting list according to the seriousness of their health conditions is an important task that requires a lot of skilled human resources and time. In addition, some people abuse the system by seeking care for minor problems, which significantly increases the emergency department overcrowding. To facilitate and accelerate the process of triage and referral in emergency departments, we propose to create a pervasive environment with a set of sensors. The information system (IS) of this space must exactly determine the patient's state of health and whether he or she must be presented urgently to a specialist, or may be queued according to a given order of priorities; in some cases, he or she must be referred to specialised emergency (maternity, psychiatry, cardiology, etc.). In this document, we present the architecture, implementation and simulation of our system for triage and referral in emergency departments.

Keywords: pervasive computing; context information; health sensors; triage and referral; emergency department; pervasive healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2017.085132

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2017 Vol.25 No.4, pp.273 - 283

Received: 05 Feb 2016
Accepted: 18 Jan 2017
Published online: 12 Jul 2017 *

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