RFID-based Solutions for Smarter Healthcare

TL;DR

This paper explores RFID technology's application in healthcare, focusing on patient identification, data management, and object tracking to enhance emergency care and operational efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces an RFID-based system integrating patient data retrieval, object tracking, and information management for improved healthcare services.

Findings

Enhanced patient identification and data access during emergencies

Improved tracking of RFID-tagged objects within healthcare facilities

Potential for increased efficiency and reliability in healthcare operations

Abstract

This paper proposes the application of RFID technology in healthcare industry based on its increased functionality, high reliability, easy-to-use capabilities and low cost. After a brief presentation of RFID technologies and their applications, the paper describes an RFID-based system that can provide efficient facilities to allow essential information management for emergency care across hospital boundaries. This system performs RFID-based identification of the patients, querying and retrieving medical data from various existing healthcare information systems, as well as storing and giving the most clinically significant information to the clinicians. Also, the system allows identifying and tracking RFID- tagged objects in order to provide new quality services for the mobility of objects.