RFID Technology in Health Environment Opportunities and Challenges for Modern Cancer Care

Abstract

Cancers are significant contributors to the mortality and health care expenditures. Cancer can be reduced and monitored by new information technology. Radio frequency identification or RFID is a wireless identification technology. The use of this technology can be employed for identifying and tracking clinical staff, patients, supplies, medications and equipments. RFID can trace and manage chemotherapy drugs. There are different types of RFID. Implantable RFID allowing a chip to be embedded under the skin and that store the cancer patient's identifier. These are concerns about applications of RFID. Privacy, security and legal issues are key problems. This paper describes capabilities, benefits and confidentiality aspects in radio frequency identification systems and solutions for overcoming challenges.

Challenges to the design and testing supportive interventions for cancer patients treated with oral oncolytic agents

“…Currently bundled strategies that combine, smartphone reminders, motivational interviewing, and strategies to manage symptoms are being tested for assessing adherence [10–14]. Emerging strategies that are under testing and refinement for assessing adherence include the use of Radio Frequency Identification chips [15–17].…”

Cancer care improvement through positive patient identification technologies

“…47 In addition of mentioned capabilities, RFID in cancer care improves patient safety, operational efficiencies and total satisfaction via prevention of errors in patient misidentification and mistreatment. 50,51 If some barriers such as prohibitive costs, technological limitations, and privacy concerns can be overcome, RFID can be very useful tool in health. 52 RFID through quick patient information retrieval and correct identification is…”

Secure e-Health System on Passive RFID: Outpatient Clinic and Emergency Care

“…In addition, the privacy, legality, and security are the key problems needed to be solved in e-Health environment. Safdari et al [19] have pointed that the organization needs to concentrate on the following privacy and security issues: (1) only authorized users can access sensitive information, (2) the integrity and accuracy of data should be guaranteed, and (3) the hospital needs to protect the patient information. In order to achieve these three goals, the authors provided a security solution, that is, anonymous transmission at tag side.…”