Radio Frequency Identification Applications in Smart Hospitals

Nahas, Huzaifa Al; Deogun, Jitender S.

doi:10.1109/cbms.2007.90

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“…Some RFID networks have already been deployed in hospitals [4]. However, their usage is limited to local identification since these materials remain expensive and since many challenges need to be addressed.…”

Section: Challenges and Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

RFID in eHealth systems: applications, challenges, and perspectives

Bouet¹,

Pujolle²

2010

Ann. Telecommun.

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The radio frequency identification (RFID) technology promises to leverage eHealth systems. Highly pervasive RFID enables remote identification, tracking, and localization of the medical staff, patients, drugs, and equipment thus increasing safety, optimizing in real-time management, and providing support for new ambient-intelligent services. This article presents the potential and challenges on the use of RFID in healthcare. First, we state the required RFID infrastructure and its impact on patient life cycle. Then, based on this description, we identify and discuss not only the issues of large deployments, such as privacy, localization, and interference with medical devices, but also middleware systems to integrate this technology within multimedia and body area networks. Finally, we picture the future RFID-equipped hospital room, where RFID is the basis of the eHealth system.

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Section: Challenges and Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

RFID in eHealth systems: applications, challenges, and perspectives

Bouet¹,

Pujolle²

2010

Ann. Telecommun.

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“…More specifically, recent efforts focus on making buildings "smarter" by adaptively controlling power consumption in areas such as lighting [92], electric heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) [93], [94] and information infrastructure [95] within buildings. Building smart offices [96], smart hospitals [97], [98] and smart universities [99], [100] is an emerging trend that encompasses Weiser's ubiquitous/pervasive computing concept [101] through the seamless integration of technologies [100]. Finally, the combined operation of community's MGs with other supported communications networks can also significantly improve the economic performance of MGs [102]- [107].…”

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confidence: 99%

Financially Stimulating Local Economies by Exploiting Communities’ Microgrids: Power Trading and Hybrid Techno-Economic (HTE) Model

Lazaropoulos

2015

TRE

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This paper thoroughly considers the potential of installing microgrids (MGs) in communities that suffer from the economic crisis in order to financially stimulate their local economies. Exploiting the state-of-the-art evolutions in the fields of the MG technology, the Hybrid Techno-Economic (HTE) model is proposed as a suitable techno-economic tool for assessing the power generation/consumption behaviour and the financial performance of these communities' MGs. The contribution of this paper is four-fold. First, the HTE model is presented. HTE model describes a theoretical analysis that is suitable for studying community's MGs. Appropriately concatenating one well-validated technical module and one new economic module, the HTE model quickly and conveniently reveals the power generation/consumption and economic profile of community's MGs. Second, HTE model is integrated through an extended portfolio of power and financial metrics. The applied metrics study the influence of generation and consumption power changes on community's MGs. The validity and the efficiency of the HTE model are examined with respect to these power changes while the impact of these changes on the power and cash flows of community's MGs are assessed. Third, a cost-benefit analysis of the operation of community's MGs accompanied with a financial stability analysis is also demonstrated. The main outcome of these analyses is the daily total benefit (TB) of community's MGs with its respective financial bounds. Fourth, the contribution of the energy arbitrage and the power production mix among available power sources of community's MGs to the daily TB is investigated. Apart from promoting the ecological awareness, this paper tries to become a catching argument for the communities in order to exploit the community's MGs. 132communities around the world. While the severity of these problems varies from one community to another, new policies have to be adopted as well as new tools and mechanisms have to be invented, restructured, and overhauled [1]- [4]. In a regional basis, the consequences of the financial and economic crisis mainly affects four sectors of community's economy [1], [5], [6]: (i) Revenues: The revenues of the communities, which are either generated by local taxation or derived from state transfers, have undergone dramatic declines; (ii) Expenditures: The communities suffering from the crisis show high unemployment and significant slowdown of their local economic activities. Hence, additional funding is required so that the general social welfare status is maintained; (iii) Bank financing: Apart from the states, the crisis critically affects the banking institutions as well as their cash liquidity. Hence, the cost of money increases while the communities face serious difficulties in contracting loans in order to satisfy their current budget needs and projections; (iv) Investments: The crisis environment discourages either foreign or local investors. This implies that various projects, which could create extra financial fluidity in loca...

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“…Unlike a standard bar code reader that can analyze only one piece of data at a time, an RFID reader consists of a microprocessor that can rapidly and accurately track a large number of messages at one time. Radio‐frequency identification technology is now widely applied in many medical services, such as hospital management, 5 and for a variety of uses, such as managing inpatient medication administration, 6 tracking dressing changes, 7 determining whether an endotracheal tube is positioned correctly, 8 and tracking safe transfer of patients between caregivers 9…”

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Application of Radio‐frequency Identification in Perioperative Care

Ku¹,

Wang²,

Su³

et al. 2011

AORN Journal

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Every perioperative department could benefit from having an information system that facilitates managerial function and improves efficiency in the OR. The Patient Advancement Monitoring System-Surgical implemented in a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, is one such a system that uses radio-frequency identification technology for tracking perioperative care of patients along workflow checkpoints. This web-based medical information system can facilitate care provided throughout perioperative services by providing instant patient information to staff members in cross-functional health care teams. Manpower is not wasted on duplicating data entry because the surgical progression is displayed in real time. Satisfaction with the system has been high for both nurses and administrators.

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Radio Frequency Identification Applications in Smart Hospitals

Cited by 41 publications

References 14 publications

RFID in eHealth systems: applications, challenges, and perspectives

RFID in eHealth systems: applications, challenges, and perspectives

Financially Stimulating Local Economies by Exploiting Communities’ Microgrids: Power Trading and Hybrid Techno-Economic (HTE) Model

Application of Radio‐frequency Identification in Perioperative Care

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