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The Danish government decided in 2008 to spend 10 billion Euros on 16 new hospital construction projects. In Odense, the budget is totally 1.3 billion Euros and will be approximately 220.000 m2. The hospital will be ready in 2022.

TOGAF as a framework has been used in order to secure a coherent and semi-automated logistics system, where:

• clinical logistics
• service logistics
• planning/scheduling

(the logistics complex) are the central elements. The project has identified those three areas as interdependent and most important, leaving out systems like electronic health records (EHR).

It has been crucial for the project that clinicians do not interact with the service logistics system, but instead focus on their clinical workflow through interaction only with the clinical systems at the hospital. A real time location system (RTLS) has been acquired, so it is possible to track mobile equipment, beds, trolleys, patients and personnel. Based on the exact position of equipment or personnel/patients, tasks can be created or registration made automatically in the surrounding application.

The new logistics solution will help the hospital cope with fewer beds, be more efficient and increase quality overall. TOGAF has proven itself as a reliable framework in order to map the business architecture of the future and select and design appropriate information system architecture and technology architecture.

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