Paper Info
Title
Innovative Information Systems in the Intensive Care Unit, King Saud Medical City in Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the experience of implementing innovative information technology to improve the quality of services in one of the largest Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia. The Intensive Care Units in King Saud Medical City (ICU-KSMC) is the main ICU in the kingdom that represents the Ministry of Health. KSMC's ICU is also considered one of the largest ICU in the world as it consists of six units with 129 beds. Leaders in KSMC's ICU have introduced and integrated three information technologies to produce powerful, accurate, and timely information systems to overcome the challenges of the ICU nature and improve the quality of service to ensure patients' safety. By 2015, ICU in KSMC has noticed a remarkable improvement in: beds' occupation and utilization, staff communication, reduced medical errors, and improved departmental work flow, which created a healthy professional work environment. Yet, ICU in KSMC has ongoing improvement projects that include future plans for more innovative information technologies' implementation in the department.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3233/978-1-61499-538-8-145
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Intensive Care Unit,Information System,Quality Improvement,King Saud Medical City,Saudi Arabia
Information system,Intensive care unit,Christian ministry,Work environment,Emergency medicine,Information technology,Knowledge management,Medical emergency,Work flow,Medicine,Intensive care
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
213
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
al saleem n100.34
al harthy a200.34
Nouf Al Saleem301.01
Abdulrahman Al Harthy400.34