An identification wristband given to a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital . A patient tracking system (also called patient identification system ) allows a healthcare provider to log and monitor the progress of a person through the provision of care during their stay there. Such systems are part of an overall information system and may interact with the person's electronic health record ,[ 1] system used by radiology departments to track patients as well as the system storing medical images , the pathology laboratory information management system , as well as patient check-in and check-out systems.[ 2] [ 3]
Increasingly people, as well as biopsies and associated equipment are tagged in various ways, for example with radio-frequency identification tags.[ 4]
A given floor or ward may use a white board as its system to track the status of all the people being cared for; for example in an obstetrics ward, each mother in labor is listed, along with her status and the time she was last checked.[ 5]
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References
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