The 942nd Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is a GradeA tertiary comprehensive military hospital undertaking dual missions of medical treatment for military and civilian populations and military health service support. The hospital consistently delivers routine clinical diagnosis and treatment while undertaking combatready health service drills. Its clinical nursing services cover healthcare for general patients, and meet special operational requirements including admission and treatment of military service personnel and wartime emergency support.

2 With the continuous expansion of the hospital’s service scope, pain points have emerged under the traditional nursing model. Ward information circulated via paper cards suffered from delayed updates; ward call notifications relied on singlechannel transmission; nursing work depended heavily on manual documentation. Nurses devoted substantial time to paperwork, information verification and frequent onsite travels. Nursing quality control relied on manual reviews, and data statistics were timeconsuming and laborintensive. Such conditions failed to satisfy the mandatory requirements for highquality development and smart hospital construction of military hospitals in the new era.

3 To address practical clinical nursing challenges, the hospital, grounded in its positioning as a militaryaffiliated hospital, identified four core development objectives: daily ward operation, health service support, nursing quality control and patient safety management. Following multiple rounds of solution research and onsite surveys, the hospital adopted Ocamar’s holistic smart nursing solution to implement fullscenario intelligent transformation for the Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. The solution connects endtoend business workflows across nurse stations, corridors, ward doorways, bedside areas and mobile terminals, creating a benchmark smart nursing ward tailored to the operational characteristics of military hospitals.

Project Overview

This project avoids simple hardware stacking. Instead, it delivers scenariooriented implementations targeting realworld operational pain points of the hospital. A complete suite of software and hardware is deployed, including the Nurse Station Dashboard, Nurse Station Console, Digital Patient Room Door Display, Digital Bedside Card, DoubleSided Corridor Display, mobile nursing system and nursing management system, alongside medical PDAs. Deep integration with the hospital’s inhouse HIS and EMR systems enables bidirectional data interoperability. All deployed equipment complies with confidentiality and ward administration regulations applicable to military hospitals.

Nurse Station Dashboard Serving as the core fullperspective visualization hub at the nurse station, it presents multidimensional operational data including bed distribution across nursing units, basic patient profiles, nursing acuity levels, call queues, pending physician orders, vital sign monitoring, surgical records and nursing task statistics. Nurses gain realtime visibility into ward operations, with prominent alerts for warnings and pending tasks to realize onescreen overview of ward status. Synchronized with data from the Nurse Station Console, the dashboard supports status visualization and business alerts. It transforms nursestation workflows from passive call reception to proactive nursing work anticipation, and provides intuitive data support for manpower scheduling and emergency response.

Nurse Station Console It acts as the call dispatching core for the ward, responsible for incoming call reception, intercom communication and hierarchical call handling across the entire ward. It receives call requests initiated from bedside terminals and door displays, and supports call answering, call forwarding and call reset. Realtime interconnection with the Nurse Station Dashboard, DoubleSided Corridor Display, Digital Patient Room Door Display and medical PDAs enables synchronized distribution of call signals across all terminals. It ensures no call requests are missed and all events are traceable, satisfying military hospital requirements for fullprocess logging of call events.

Digital Patient Room Door Display As the primary information interaction node outside patient rooms, it replaces conventional paper information boards. It consolidates room numbers, bed information, department director, head nurse, attending physician, responsible nurse and core patient data. Content automatically refreshes upon data changes in hospital information systems, eliminating persistent problems associated with manual papercard updates including incorrect entries, omissions and delayed information. Equipped with cardswipe recognition and physical buttons for nursing call response, it allows nurses to acknowledge calls and confirm nursing tasks outside patient rooms without entering wards. Visual alarm notifications trigger upon call activation to alert passing clinical staff immediately. Information display permissions can be configured in accordance with military ward management rules to balance information transparency and patient privacy protection.

Digital Bedside Card Installed at patient bedsides to replace paper bedside cards, it serves both patients and onsite clinical staff. It displays patient information, nursing acuity and attending care providers. Functions include onetouch patient call, health education push and medical expense inquiry. Connected to monitoring devices, it aggregates and presents vital sign data. Nurses can verify identity via cardswiping and complete onsite service interactions directly at bedsides, advancing digital nursing workflows to the pointofcare and bridging gaps in bedside digital capabilities.

DoubleSided Corridor Display Mounted in ward public corridors as a shared ward information hub, it shows realtime time and ward reminders. When ward calls are generated, corresponding bed numbers and call types are broadcast via scrolling onscreen notifications. This breaks the limitation that calls could only be received at nurse stations. While conducting rounds and onsite interventions in corridors, nurses keep track of ward call dynamics without returning to nurse stations, enabling prompt response to patient needs and shortening response cycles.

Mobile Nursing System & Medical PDA It extends nursestation capabilities to patient bedsides. Under legacy workflows, nurses collected data at bedsides then returned to nurse stations for system entry, causing time loss and risks of secondary input errors. With medical PDAs, nurses complete patient identity verification, order review and execution, vitalsign entry and specimen validation at bedsides. Endtoend closedloop workflows enforce the “three checks and seven verifications” protocol, with operational data transmitted in realtime to hospital systems. Call notifications are pushed to PDAs, so nurses remain accessible to ward alerts even away from nurse stations, free from fixed workstation constraints.

Nursing Management System A datadriven backend platform for nursing administrators. It automatically aggregates comprehensive ward nursing datasets covering nursing documentation, nursing workload, quality control and adverseevent statistics, and generates automated analytical reports. It replaces traditional qualitycontrol modes based on manual ledgers and spot checks. Data insights inform nursing quality analysis and manpower scheduling optimization, meeting hospital nursing assessment requirements as well as military healthservice data traceability standards.

RealWorld Business Scenario Implementation

01 Ward Rounds During ward rounds, nurses quickly obtain bed assignments and responsible careprovider information via Digital Patient Room Door Displays. When a ward call triggers, ondevice alerts enable nurses to acknowledge requests outside rooms without returning to nurse stations. Visiting family members view clear information of attending medical staff onscreen, reducing repeated inquiries and cutting down nonproductive communication burdens for nurses.

02 Bedside Nursing Execution Nurses carry medical PDAs to patient beds and perform dual patientidentity validation together with Digital Bedside Cards before delivering infusions, medication administration, vitalsign collection and other nursing interventions. Data is logged onsite and synchronized to HIS instantly, with every operation permanently logged. Patients can initiate calls via Digital Bedside Cards when discomfort occurs. Call signals are simultaneously pushed to Digital Patient Room Door Displays, DoubleSided Corridor Displays, Nurse Station Dashboard, Nurse Station Console and nurses’ PDAs for multiterminal alerting.

03 Corridor Workflow While conducting dressing changes and patient transfers in corridors, nurses view scrolling call notifications on DoubleSided Corridor Displays. They can prioritize response tasks without returning to nurse stations and address patient needs onsite. The screens also broadcast healtheducation reminders to maintain orderly ward operations.

04 NurseStation Dispatching & Nursing Quality Control The Nurse Station Dashboard delivers fullvisibility of nursingunit operations, while the Nurse Station Console processes all ward calls. Onduty nurses receive incoming alerts and assign nursing tasks centrally. Nursing administrators access nursing workload metrics and qualitycontrol indicators via the nursing management system for performance reviews and manpower evaluation, supporting routine hospital assessments and satisfying military healthservice data retention and traceability mandates.

Measurable Project Outcomes

Streamlined nursing response workflows and improved ward operational efficiency A multiterminal collaborative call ecosystem covering nurse stations, corridors, ward doorways, bedsides and mobile terminals is established. Call alerts are distributed across multiple endpoints, moving beyond the legacy singlepoint reception model confined to nurse stations. Patient waiting time for call response is shortened, and unnecessary backandforth travels by nurses are reduced, freeing up more time for direct patient care.

Enhanced patient safety and mitigated humanerror risks Paper bedside documentation is fully phased out. Realtime synchronization with hospital information systems eliminates information errors originating from manual entry. Closedloop bedside verification via PDAs ensures full traceability of order execution and patientidentity checks, satisfying stringent military hospital standards for medical safety and auditability of clinical operations.

Reduced nursing manpower burden and transformation of nursing value Digital tools replace large volumes of repetitive manual work including paperwork, ledger logging and crossreference checks. Nurses are relieved from heavy administrative chores and can focus on core services such as patient care and health education. Automated reporting within the nursing management system drastically cuts manpower overhead for qualitycontrol assessment and data compilation.

Accommodation of militaryhospital specificities and alignment with healthservice requirements The complete solution is built around militaryhospital operational attributes. It supports dual admission of military and civilian patients, data retention for healthservice missions and rigorous information security governance. It serves daytoday clinical practice and lays hardware and software foundations for future digitalized emergency healthservice support. Meanwhile, transparent ward information improves overall patient experience and satisfaction with medical services.

Project Significance

The smart nursing project at the 942nd Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force represents a typical smart nursing and smart ward implementation delivered by Ocamar for GradeA tertiary military hospitals. Distinct from civilian hospitals, military hospitals bear special combatready healthservice responsibilities alongside routine clinical care, imposing higher requirements on system stability, data traceability and business adaptability.

This project goes beyond mere equipment procurement and delivery. It deeply addresses multifaceted realworld demands of militaryhospital clinical nursing, nursing administration and healthservice support. Leveraging medical IoT technologies, it dismantles information silos within wards and builds a closedloop smart nursing system that caters to both daily clinical operations and healthservice support.

On one hand, it realizes digital upgrading of nursing wards for the 942nd Hospital and fulfills smarthospital construction objectives, with tangible improvements in nursing safety, operational efficiency and service quality. On the other hand, the project establishes a replicable and scalable smartnursing construction model for military hospitals. It delivers practical references for smart nursing and smartward initiatives across domestic militaryaffiliated hospitals and general GradeA tertiary hospitals, advancing highquality development of nursing services through digital technologies.