Performance Improvement in Hospital Management using RFID and ZigBee Technologies for Tracking and Monitoring Patients and Assets in Saudi Arabia

Abstract— This paper outlines a developed framework for presenting and visualising data from RFID and ZigBee technologies. The data is gathered from sensors that track and monitor the location and statuses of patients, medical staff and medical equipment by using visualisation concepts to assist in creating, transforming and sharing knowledge to improve hospital management performance and help and to support decision making in the Saudi Arabian healthcare sector.

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