The Regional Hospital of Horsens in Central Denmark Region has implemented the first interactive hospital in the world with the product Cetrea Surgical. Cetrea Surgical has been used since 2004.

The hospital has 13 surgery rooms and uses Cetrea Surgical to conduct both acute and scheduled surgeries with more than 70 surgeries each day. The Region Hospital of Horsens have experienced an increase of 2 additional surgeries each day due to the implementation of Cetrea Surgical. Also the clinicians' working environment is significantly improved with less stressful working days and fewer interruptions for both doctors and nurses. It is a big benefit for the clinicians that they now spend much less time making calls and trying to get a hold of colleagues.

Cetrea Emergency

For some time the Region Hospital of Horsens in Region Central Denmark has worked towards one common accident and emergency incident unit to recieve all acute patients. The hospital has established this new unit during 2008 and with a few specific exeptions all acute patients will be admitted here. Where Cetrea Surgical focuses on optimising dynamic and ever changing situations in the surgical ward, Cetrea Emergency handles the same for the accident og emergency incident unit.

Cetrea Emergency has been in use since November 2008 and is specifically designed to:

• Establish comprehensive status information which cover the acute admission, help in prioritising activities and patients, and secure fast and efficient treatment
• Facilitate fast and efficient cooperation
• Offer tools for cooperation and coordination across the hospital
• Improve quality in patient treatment and reduce the risk of errors

Cetrea Safety

The Region Hospital of Horsens from Region Central Denmark has initiated the Cetrea Safety project focused on the tracking of patients and clinical staff.

Based on the succes of Cetrea Surgical in Horsens, the purpose of Cetrea Safety is to create a more advanced and sophisticated product for tracking of clinicians and patients. A significant component of Cetrea Surgical is indoor localisation of clinicians and patients through the use of Bluetooth technology. The research behind Cetrea Surgical has documented significant efficiency and qualitative benefits by the use of Cetrea Surgical including localization of the clinicians.

Cetrea Safety uses active RFID for tracking of clinicians and passive RFID tracking for patients. The key focus is to reduce errors arising from mis-identification and wrong services delivered to patients. As this project leads to the existence of an RFID infrastructure, the project opens for other potentials such as tracking of equipment and RFID use for logistics of goods (e.g. purchasing of goods or central sterile supplies department).

The vision of the project is thus - through real time tracking of patients and clinicians as well as automated security checks in the surgery rooms - to:

• Improve patient safety in a hospital
• Improve the working environment for clinical staff
• Support coordination of the cooperation in the clinical treatment