Flows and views for scalable scientific process integration
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
High frequency distributed data stream event correlation to improve neonatal clinical management
Proceedings of the 2007 inaugural international conference on Distributed event-based systems
Algorithms and heuristics for efficient medical information display in PDA
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Partitioning knowledge bases between advanced notification and clinical decision support systems
Decision Support Systems
Pervasive healthcare and wireless health monitoring
Mobile Networks and Applications
Enabling ubiquitous patient monitoring: Model, decision protocols, opportunities and challenges
Decision Support Systems
Examining the success factors for mobile work in healthcare: A deductive study
Decision Support Systems
A Personal Assistant for Autonomous Life
HCD 09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Simulated neonatal intensive care units to support neonatologist international mobility
Telehealth '07 The Third IASTED International Conference on Telehealth
Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation
Information Systems Frontiers
Healthcom'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on e-Health networking, applications and services
Automated management of assets based on RFID triggered alarm messages
Information Systems Frontiers
Mobile broadband-based healthcare management: advantages, issues and challenges
International Journal of Computers in Healthcare
Performance evaluation of data intensive mobile healthcare test-bed in a 4G environment
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Pervasive Wireless Healthcare
A WoT approach to eHealth: case study of a hospital laboratory alert escalation system
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Web of Things
International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
Journal of Database Management
A framework for enabling patient monitoring via mobile ad hoc network
Decision Support Systems
A collaborative food safety service agent architecture with alerts and trust
Information Systems Frontiers
Development of context-aware workflow systems based on Petri Net Markup Language
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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Recent advances in mobile technologies have greatly extended traditional communication technologies to mobile devices. At the same time, healthcare environments are by nature "mobile" where doctors and nurses do not have fixed workspaces. Irregular and exceptional events are generated in daily hospital routines, such as operations rescheduling, laboratory/examination results, and adverse drug events. These events may create requests that should be delivered to the appropriate person at the appropriate time. Those requests that are classified as urgent are referred to as alerts . Efficient routing and monitoring of alerts are keys to quality and cost-effective healthcare services. Presently, these are generally handled in an ad hoc manner. In this paper, we propose the use of a healthcare alert management system to handle these alert messages systematically. We develop a model for specifying alerts that are associated with medical tasks and a set of parameters for their routing. We design an alert monitor that matches medical staff and their mobile devices to receive alerts, based on the requirements of these alerts. We also propose a mechanism to handle and reroute, if necessary, an alert message when it has not been acknowledged within a specific deadline.