RFID-based Hospital Real-time Patient Management System

Abstract

In a health care context, the use RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)

Improving communication among nurses and patients

“…The LSS is another event publisher which publishes the locations of nurses within the hospital using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. The nurse wears an active RFID badge which reports its unique ID to a reader device [15]. Since the location of the reader and the signal strength of the nurse's RFID signal are known, the location of the nurse is remotely identified [16].…”

Real-time Early Infectious Outbreak Detection Systems Using Emerging Technologies

“…Multi-layer RFID and sensor architecture establishes an infrastructure to address such a challenge, to automate and simplify the functionality for building RFID-based solutions in the health system. These integration layers (i.e., five layers) are: physical device layer, middleware layer, Health IT infrastructure management layer, data layer and graphical user interface layers [10]. The physical device layer consists of the actual RFID hardware component that integrates with the IODM system for capturing data automatically.…”

Challenges of Deploying RFID Technology for Reducing Medical Identity Theft

“…The Enrichment Layer is responsible for preparing information from device controllers in being readily available for use by high-level applications whereby business processes occur that allow real-time amalgamation with existing hospital systems. The Application Layer utilises applications that interact with the RFID data, as well as ascertaining an application level connection with the Device Layer that specifically necessitates the reader management and processing of numerous volumes of RFID data required for medical applications [11,16].…”