Using OCR to improve inventory management in Health 4.0

PETROVA, ANA (author), Vavpotič, Damjan (mentor)

In this bachelor thesis Health 4.0 is described, as well as its history, main principles, ideas, and potential. We define the role of supply chain management in Health 4.0, as well as discuss its main issues, with a focus on inventory management as a crucial process that has a lot of room for improvement. The role of OCR in healthcare inventory management is explored via a domain overview of existing solutions. We describe the solution that was developed as a part of this bachelor thesis, the technologies that were used, the system’s design and its functionalities. The application implements a novel functionality in inventory health management, namely the use of OCR for the goals of data entry automation and data extraction from invoice documents in healthcare. The application aims to improve efficiency via the minimization of the time needed for processing documents, as well as improve the accuracy of the entered data.

• Language: English
• Keywords: health 4.0, inventory management, mobile application, OCR
• Work type: Bachelor thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Year: 2022
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136909
• COBISS.SI-ID: 109228035
• Publication date in RUL: 24.05.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Uporaba tehnologije prepoznavanja znakov za izboljšanje upravljanja zalog v Zdravstvu 4.0

Abstract

V diplomskem delu so opisani Zdravstvo 4.0, njegova zgodovina, glavna načela, ideje in potencial. Opredeljujemo vlogo upravljanja dobavne verige v Zdravstvu 4.0 in obravnavamo njene glavne težave, s poudarkom na upravljanju zalog, ki je ključni proces in ki ima veliko prostora za izboljšave. Vloga optičnega prepoznavanja znakov (OCR) pri upravljanju inventarja v zdravstvu je raziskana s pregledom domene obstoječih rešitev. Opisana je rešitev, ki je bila razvita v okviru te diplomske naloge, uporabljene tehnologije, dizajn sistema in njegove funkcionalnosti. Aplikacija implementira novo funkcionalnost pri upravljanju zalog, in sicer uporabo OCR za cilje avtomatizacije vnosa podatkov in ekstrakcije podatkov iz dobavnic v zdravstvu. Namen aplikacije je izboljšati učinkovitost z zmanjšanjem potrebnega časa za obdelavo dokumentov in izboljšanje točnosti vnesenih podatkov.

• Keywords: zdravstvo 4.0, upravljanje zalog, mobilna aplikacija, tehnologija prepoznavanja znakov