CallMeSmart: A VoIP Softphone on Android Based Mobile Devices Using SIP (original) (raw)

The Wireless Communication Infrastructure represents a core for information sharing between health care workers in hospitals: Medical staffs work situation is highly mobile, and important information is constantly shared between health care workers to provide high quality service for the patients. Physicians carry mobile communication devices to be able to communicate in their mobile work, and often several wireless devices according to their role and responsibilities. This leads to a number of problems, especially regarding interruptions from these devices. Such interruptions are often due to the caller is unaware or ignoring the situation and context, in which their colleagues are. This can, and often does lead to severe medical consequences. This article deals with the CallMeSmart system (CMS); a communication infrastructure based on collection, analysis and dissemination of context sensitive information through a communication system based on smartphones and DECT devices, to improve the current communication backbones, and to reduce interruptions from mobile devices in hospital settings.