Measuring mobility and room occupancy in clinical settings: System development and implementation

Abstract

Background: The use of location-based data in clinical settings is often limited to real-time monitoring. In this study, we aim to develop a proximity-based localization system and show how its longitudinal deployment can provide operational insights related to staff and patients' mobility and room occupancy in clinical settings. Such a streamlined data-driven approach can help in increasing the uptime of operating rooms and more broadly provide an improved understanding of facility utilization. Objective: The aim of this study is to measure the accuracy of the system and algorithmically calculate measures of mobility and occupancy. Methods: We developed a Bluetooth low energy, proximity-bas..