TY  - EJOU
AU  - 
T1  - A Research on the Implementation of an ICT-Based Entry and Exit Control System to Prevent Hospital Infection
T2  - International Journal of Management and Sustainability

PY  - 2016
VL  - 5
IS  - 11
SN  - 2306-0662

AB  - Recently as contagious diseases such as SARS and MERS etc. have been 
widely spread across the globe, there is an increased emphasis on the 
importance of infection management. As hospital infection has been 
pointed out as a critical issue factor, the need to implement a disease 
control system in order to control infected patients is becoming 
necessary. Because hospital systems are information dense systems, 
utilizing ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and convergence
 technologies such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Smart 
Devices, and LBS (Location Based Service) etc. are being proposed as the
 main methods to implement this system. But because previous research 
combining hospital data and the area of IT convergence, mainly conducted
 research with the objective of OA (Office automation) and MIS 
(Management Information System), there is a limitation of this previous 
research to be applied to infectious diseases and disease management. To
 address this, through in-depth interview with professionals, the entry 
routes of diseases into hospitals were examined and a method to prevent 
this was proposed in this research. The results of this research 
confirmed that to prevent diseases from entering a hospital, the most 
important factor was to increase the access layers of entrance of a 
hospital to control points of contact. Based on these results, an ICT 
technology that could be implemented in layers was proposed. It is 
expected that the results of this research will be helpful to managers 
and staff of hospital organizations that need to implement control 
systems to prevent contagious disease infection in hospitals.
KW  - Disease control system
KW  - Contagious disease
KW  - ICT (Information and 
Communication Technology)
KW  - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
KW  - LBS 
(Location Based Services)
KW  - Contagious diseases.
DO  - 10.18488/journal.11/2016.5.11/11.11.87.93