Framework to Build an Intelligent RFID System for Use in the Healthcare Industry

Tsay, Li-Shiang; Williamson, Avery; Im, Seunghyun

doi:10.1109/taai.2012.58

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“…The majority of the technological components required in building a smart hospital environment are becoming readily available in the market. Currently, in academia (Fuhrer and Guinard, 2006;Chernbumroong et al, 2010;Ruan et al, 2011;Tsay et al, 2012;Aminian and Naji, 2013) and industry (Tapia et al, 2012), many systems are under development, and there are some commercial systems (Orlov, 2009) that are now capable of providing monitoring services. It is essential, however, that any transformation includes knowledge sharing of experience in healthcare organisations to build smart and deployable systems that allow the users a dynamic control of objects and transform operational processes, while minimising any potential risks to the "objects", such as patients and staff.…”

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Transforming to a smart hospital system

Alharbe

Atkins

2016

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Purpose Expert knowledge is an important organisational resource, and organisations need to retain the knowledge learned by experience, which can be shared as part of inter-professional learning. In a healthcare context, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and ZigBee technologies can be used together, to provide real-time information for decision support and to create a secure and reliable smart hospital management information system (SHMIS) that allows the dynamic control of objects and transforms operational processes, while minimising any potential risks to patients and staff. Currently, the RFID technology in Saudi Arabia is being solely used for the monitoring of newborn infants, and some difficulties have been encountered during the different stages of tagging and monitoring. The current system in Medina Maternity and Children’s Hospital (MMCH) uses battery-powered active RFID tags, which are expensive and require routine maintenance. This study aims to discuss the way in which the MMCH in Medina, Saudi Arabia, could be transformed into an SHMIS. Design/methodology/approach The extraordinary growth of RFID and ZigBee technologies has made it possible to identify, locate and track objects in various environments in real time. The RFID technology is a non-contact identification technology that is cheap and reliable but has limited range in the case of passive tags. ZigBee has greater range and lower power consumption, giving more precise location of the object’s movements (0.6 m). Passive RFID when combined with ZigBee technology can be used to improve services provided by healthcare organisations through continuous data collection and supporting real-time decision-making, by applying expert knowledge of domain experts to data produced by communication from electronic and sensor technologies. Findings A prototype object-tracking system using RFID and ZigBee was developed to support the knowledge transformation for knowledge reasoning for decision support (KRDS), and the outcome of this research was validated with domain experts in hospitals in Saudi Arabia. Two feasibility case studies were conducted at MMCH in Saudi Arabia, to evaluate the proposed system. A survey was also conducted to address the requirements at MMCH, and the researcher adopted a range of strategy techniques, including interviews and meetings with staff, and the setting up of communities of practise (CoPs) at the target hospital. Research limitations/implications This paper has investigated the transformation process of an automatic healthcare tracking and monitoring systems for the purpose of developing a smart system in Saudi hospitals. For the scope of the project, the prototype implementation was restricted to a laboratory environment, to demonstrate the proposed proof of concept. The next phase will include conducting a scale up of the system, with implementation and testing done in a real hospital environment. Originality/value This paper proposes a prototype application of an (SHMIS that allows the dynamic control of objects and transforms operational processes, while minimising any potential risks to patients and staff.

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Transforming to a smart hospital system

Alharbe

Atkins

2016

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“…To solve this kind of concerns, Li -Shiang Tsay, et al, proposed an integrated framework to build a RFID card system by embedding smart tags in insurance cards, medical charts, and medical bracelets to store medical information. Their scheme gives and simplifies the maintenance and transfer of patient data in a secure, feasible and cost effective way [8]. In recent years, hospitals are introduced by wireless communication systems.…”

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Analysis of RFID Application for U-healthcare System in Internet of Things

Kim¹

2014

IJSH

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In the past years, Internet of Things (IoT) has been focused and fused with wireless sensor node such as RFID, NFC tag and small sensor nodes, especially for hospital environment with mobile device. Due to the weakness characteristics of wireless signals, unauthorized person can access easier to hospital networks in wireless part than wired network systems. This may induced in several security problems. Therefore, a lot of threats, attacks and vulnerability are occurred in wireless surroundings because of their limited resources such as small memory and low computation capability in wireless sensor network. RFID is often utilized as a prerequisite for the IoT in healthcare system. We surveyed and analyzed the technologies and characteristics of RFID and its application based on IoT.

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“…To solve this kind of concerns, Li-Shiang Tsay, et al, proposed an integrated framework to build a RFID card system by embedding smart tags in insurance cards, medical charts, and medical bracelets to store medical information. Their scheme gives and simplifies the maintenance and transfer of patient data in a secure, feasible and cost effective way [5]. Figure 1 depicts a concept of the network topology for the Uhealth system.…”

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Attacks and Threats on the U-Healthcare Application with Mobile Agent

Kim

2014

IJSIA

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Wireless sensor network is widespread used in hospital environment with mobile device such as NFC, RFID tag and small sensor nodes. The use of a mobile agent in healthcare system under wireless network environment gives an opportunity to offer better services for patients and staffs such as doctors and nurses because of its mobility. But, optimized security protocols and schemes between sensor and patient device are essential for high performance and security problem in U-healthcare system. But a lot of threats, attacks and vulnerability are induced because of limited resources such as small memory and low computation capability in wireless sensor network. The characteristics of U-healthcare systems are analyzed to solve security issues in this paper.

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Framework to Build an Intelligent RFID System for Use in the Healthcare Industry

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Transforming to a smart hospital system

Transforming to a smart hospital system

Analysis of RFID Application for U-healthcare System in Internet of Things

Attacks and Threats on the U-Healthcare Application with Mobile Agent

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