It might not do much to speed up wait for times, though Fujitsu is at least doing the partial to have a time outpatients outlay during hospitals and clinics a bit easier. It’s voiced a brand-new wireless outpatient superintendence system, that packs an electronic paper arrangement, as well as accommodates a card that the studious would receive when they arrive for their appointment. When placed in the label reader, a device would automatically register a patient during a hospital or clinic, beam them to their end, as well as continually surprise them of their wait for time as well as place in line. It’d also, of march, work anywhere there’s a wireless signal, so you’d be able to leave the waiting room but having to be concerned about blank your appointment. No word on any hospitals which have sealed up to use it only yet, but a complement will be commercially accessible in February of next year. Full press recover after the mangle. Show full PR textFujitsu Launches Electronic Paper-based Outpatient Guidance Solution

Tokyo, July 12, 2010 – Fujitsu Limited as well as Fujitsu General Limited today voiced the launch of the new electronic paper-based outpatient superintendence solution, commercially accessible currently from Fujitsu, written to be used during a check-in process at healing facilities such as hospitals as well as clinics.

Through a proprietary wireless communications system, the resolution connects electronic card holders (made by Fujitsu General) utilizing electronic paper (e-paper) with both a studious navigation system, that guides patients to examination bedrooms or diagnostic contrast rooms in healing comforts, and an electronic healing jot down system. This enables minute superintendence report to be delivered to the electronic card hilt of an particular patient during their revisit, from check-in as well as calling patients when the alloy is ready to see them, through to payment.

Through the electronic label holder, the solution shows outpatients their place in the queue when watchful for their consultation, and will forewarn them when they are called through visual displays and quivering. As prolonged as they have been within signal operation, outpatients do not need to stay in a watchful room, allowing them to outlay their time waiting however they find most comfortable and least stressful.

By shortening a time it takes for patients to make their approach by, a medical trickery can concentration some-more on nursing caring. As good, shortening a series of intake terminals as well as large information displays enables healing comforts to extent appetite use as well as CO2 emissions.

Background

Clinics typically make use of electronic signage in watchful rooms to uncover visiting patients who will be called next, that requires all patients to stay near a waiting room. There is an augmenting need, therefore, to find ways of relieving patients of a highlight of waiting as well as enabling them to use their time some-more effectively. Furthermore, healthcare facilities are interested in finding ways to urge the services and amenities they yield to outpatients.

To address this issue, Fujitsu began initial testing at Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Clinic in 2009. The contrast accurate the feasibility of a resolution being launched currently, a resolution which links electronic label holders regulating e-paper, with an electronic medical jot down complement.

The outpatient report solution will be on arrangement during the Hospision® booth during a International Modern Hospital Show 2010, opening July 14, 2010.

Solution Features

1. Simplifies registration
By simply inserting an IC-equipped registration label, the electronic label holder automatically links into the medical facility’s electronic studious navigation system as well as electronic healing record complement, completing the registration routine.

2. Conveys detailed report
The shade on the electronic card holder can arrangement the following equipment: (1) Today’s Schedule, (2) Place in Line, and (3) Updates. Message displays are accompanied by sound as well as vibration to keep a studious entirely sensitive. Today’s Schedule shows a scheduled time for the patient’s consultation and related standing report. Place in Line indicates how many patients are in the queue forward. Updates display any messages of significance to the studious.

3. Helps clinics with environmental efforts
As the electronic card holder uses tone e-paper for the display, it consumes almost no energy even when upon, and can run on the singular assign for one week. In further, as a registration functions of the electronic card holder obviate a need for any registration process upon subsequent visits, it saves the electrical energy that would otherwise be used in that process, assisting to revoke power expenditure and CO2 emissions. By restraining in with Fujitsu’s HOPE/EGMAIN electronic medical jot down complement, a information that had previously been passed along through paper reservation slips is now displayed upon a electronic card holder, shortening paper expenditure and further benefiting a surroundings.

Practical Testing during Fujitsu Clinic

Electronic Card Holder

From July through October of 2009, Fujitsu tested 50 of a electronic label holders during Fujitsu Clinic to assess them in conditions of (1) low-power opening and operational price savings in tangible make use of, (2) wireless transmission performance, as well as (3) quality of the report placement use from a point of perspective of clinic staff and patients. The testing involved 400 patients, and the results showed which rounded off 95% of them had a favorable impression of a solution. Fujitsu Clinic was set up during a company’s facilities in Kawasaki City with a goals of treating employees as well as their family groups as well as on condition that health government services. Its former name, Fujitsu Hospital, was changed to Fujitsu Clinic upon July 1, 2010. In the destiny it will be bringing online some of a latest healing technology, capable of enhanced minute imaging, such as CT and MRI equipment, as well as will be charity extended services to prevent lifestyle diseases as well as offer early showing of seizure, all of that have been partial of the joining to broach protected, secure, and reliable medical caring.

Pricing as well as Availability

Solution Name Pricing in Japan (excluding taxation Shipping
Outpatient Information Solution Available by selection February 2011
Sales Target

30 systems over subsequent three years

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based commercial operation solutions for a tellurian marketplace. With about 170,000 employees ancillary business in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide armed forces of systems as well as services experts with highly arguable computing and communications products as well as advanced microelectronics to deliver combined worth to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$50 billion) for a fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. For some-more report, gratefully see: www.fujitsu.com.

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