Smart119 Inc. (Head office: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture; President/CEO: Takaaki Nakata) announced today that they have added a "staff health management function" to "Smart: DR" ,a disaster countermeasure system for medical institutions developed and operated by Smart119, to manage and count the daily physical condition of staff, and has begun trial operation at the Osaka Acute and General Hospital.
Smart DR" is a disaster countermeasure system for medical institutions that supports the sharing of information and the redeployment of personnel to emergency sites in the event of a disaster, terrorist attack, or other emergency. The system enables to smoothly confirm the safety of staff members and request their assembly using smartphones and PCs, and has been introduced at medical institutions such as Shimane University Hospital and Rinku General Medical Center.
◆"Smart DR" website https://smart119.biz/dr/
In the event of a disaster or terrorist attack, medical institutions must urgently convene a large number of medical staff. On the other hand, in the current period of the spread of new coronavirus infections, there is a particular need for measures to prevent cluster infection in hospitals. One of the most effective ways to do this is to manage the health of hospital staff on the front lines of healthcare.
"Staff Health Management Function" of "Smart DR" sends a health report to the staff's e-mail or LINE(freeware app for instant communications) every morning. The staff can report their own temperature, physical condition, attendance, etc. with simple input. The reported information is automatically aggregated and centrally managed by the administrator, and can be used for infection control in the hospital, such as forbidding the calling of staff with fever. It is possible to collect high quality information without much effort. The system is already in trial operation at the Osaka Acute and General Medical Center.
"Smart DR" complies with Business Continuity Planning (BCP), which is required in all hospitals nationwide, and the related technology has been patented (patent registration No. 6166114). The usefulness of the system has been reported as a paper in an overseas medical journal*.
◆To counter the new coronavirus, the daily physical condition of the staff should be managed in total.
In order to have staff report their health status, an email with the URL of a survey form is sent at a fixed time every morning. You can enter your temperature and physical condition for the day, your work status (day shift, night shift, or night shift), and if you need to take a day off, the reason.
Medical institutions can centrally manage the information registered by their staff. Infection control measures can be implemented according to risk.
◆Features of Smart: DR
-Simultaneous notification of disaster to all staff
-One-click response to assembly requests from headquarters
-Automatic aggregation of assembly status and assignment of personnel to emergency sites
-Speedy communication of information among staff via chat
-Management and aggregation of daily physical condition of staff
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2. Tanaka K, Nakada TA, Fukuma H, Nakao S, Masunaga N, Tomita K, Matsumura Y, Mizushima Y, Matsuoka T. Development of a novel information and communication technology system to compensate for a sudden shortage of emergency department physicians. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2017;25:6.