Sistemas de gerenciamento de bando de dados em tempo-real na área hospitalar: um estudo de caso para unidade de terapia intensiva

Abstract

Hospital Automation is an area that is constanlty growing. The emergency of new technologies and hardware is transforming the processes more efficient. This fact, which implies increasing the number and complexity of information systems development and data management. To this end, several studies have been developed and is usually addressed most of the problems involved in processes with automation potential, such as: security, communication, reliability and performance of applications, biomedical devices, systems usability, logical and temporal consistency, among others. Considering these problems, the database in real-time (RTDB) have the necessary characteristics to ensure logical and temporal validity of the data and transactions, and are designed to manage large volumes of data. The RTDB can be applied as: hospital automation, aviation, sensors network, and so on. These applications have the characteristic fact, need to run in open and unpredictable by presenting large geographic distribution, high heterogeneity, lack of global control, partial failures and lack of safety. Therefore, considering the complexity of these applications, it is essential to conduct a case study in intensive care unit (ICU), where we seek to automate data and real-time transactions with timing constraints, considering the logical and temporal consistency of the same. Thus, techniques will be used to define quality of service levels and correctness of performance that must be met by applications. Through the case study it is possible to perform analysis and simulations to guide in the process of decision making and propose solutions for improvement.