ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the technology, implementation, and appli-
cation of a wireless patient monitoring system for triage support.
The SMART project was developed jointly at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston, MA and at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA. It was deployed and evaluated at
the Brigham and Women’s Hospital over an 18-month period. We
present a discussion of similar projects, all involvingwireless patient
monitoring, and then describe the SMART system design and the
results of our experience with its deployment in the waiting area of
the Emergency Department of the Brigham andWomen’s Hospital.
