Tracking the social dimensions of RFID systems in hospitals

Fisher, Jill A.; Monahan, Torin

doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.010

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“…The global market of RFID tags and systems in the health care sector will increase steadily from $ 90 million in 2006 to $ 2.1 billion by 2016 (IDTechEx 2006). RFID solutions have primarily been implemented in emergency departments and surgical centers, where medical equipments should be located quickly and there are large volumes of patients and heightened risk of medical errors (Chen et al 2008, Fisher andMonahan 2008).…”

Section: Rfid Technology As An Innovation Driver For Health Carementioning

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Using Survey Data to Design a RFID Centric Service System for Hospitals

2009

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The continuous growth of health care services expenses urges U.S. government to take actions. The adoption of Information Technology, and especially RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) allow hospitals to re-engineer their processes in order to reduce costs, maintaining the same level of service to the patients. Information technology represents a core element of the service itself; therefore a service design approach is believed to improve the adoption rate of RFID in hospitals. The main goal of the present study is to propose an RFID based service platform for hospitals, which is consistent with a service science driven design approach. A survey of 33 California based hospitals has been used to identify the user requirements of the hospitals. Later, a business process re-engineering for hospitals is proposed. Firstly the different actors involved in the health care services, along with their relationships in terms of information flows, are identified. This leads us to identify the various operations in a hospital setting that have a potential to be streamlined by introducing RFID technology. Having introduced these operations, we theorize a customizable RFID service, which can be implemented sequentially by each hospital according to its individual conditions such that it suits them most. [Service Science, ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.]

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Section: Rfid Technology As An Innovation Driver For Health Carementioning

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Using Survey Data to Design a RFID Centric Service System for Hospitals

2009

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“…The European commission defines that FSCTS is the Management Information System (MIS) to trace material used in animals or feeds in any specified stages of food supply chain(M. Reynolds, 2012; R. Angeles 2012) [2][3]. The definition of Agricultural Food Supply Chain Tracking System (AFSCTS), provided by the United Nations Codex Alimentations Commission (UNCAC), is a computer system to trace agricultural food in production, processing, distribution and sale process of agricultural supply chain (F. Fisher, 2013) [4]. In western nations, more and more attention is focused on the research of Tracking System, such as Tracking System based on products supply chain (May Tajima, 2013), Tracking System based on hospital applications (T. Monahan, 2012; P. Stanfield, 2013), and children's tracking system for large amusement parks (Xiaodong Lin, etc., 2012) [5][6][7].…”

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Key Technologies and Alogrithms’ Application in Agricultural Food Supply Chain Tracking System in E-commerce

Huang

Liu

2014

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VII

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Abstract. In nowadays' world, frequently occurred agricultural food safety events have severely done harm to people's health and directly initiated great trust crisis to governments and agricultural food enterprises, and the Ecommerce as virtual economy can enlarge the trust crisis terrifically. As a result, to establish unified traceability information sharing platform of agricultural supply chain has become an urgent task for the related organizations. This paper begins with an exploratory research on design and realization of Agricultural Food Supply Chain Tracking System (AFSCTS) in E-commerce environment, which can provide a powerful technical support for timely tracing and finding the link where a agricultural food safety problem happens in the supply chain. This paper has 5 sections: the first to briefly introduce the concepts relevant to AFSCTS and the significance of this research; the second to analyze three key technologies (RFID technology, database integration technology and data security technology) utilized in AFSCTS; the third to elaborate on two key algorithms (traceability algorithm and data encryption algorithm) designed in AFSCTS; the fourth to design and implement AFSCTS based on three key technologies and two key algorithms, and the overall system frame and function structure are narrated detailedly in the paper; the last to apply the AFSCTS in Nanfeng county (the hometown of famous Nanfeng Orange in China) for tracing agricultural food, and the system implementation has achieved experimental success.

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“…Bar coding, another AIDC technology, can be used to capture and manage patient-related medication information, track patient laboratory and radiology results, and track and trace blood bags [11]. Recently, however, RFID technology has emerged as a new wave of IT that may radically transform the healthcare sector [9,19] by allowing better patient identification [20], providing a better way of tracking and tracing the identity of patients within healthcare facilities [21], and reducing errors in patient care [22], as well as enabling better management of the various steps in the blood transfusion process [23], innovative management of patients with chronic conditions [16,24], a better way of checking, tracking, and tracing pharmaceutical products origin, and the management of incident audit trail between medical equipment and healthcare staff [25]. Indeed, RFID technology offers greater capabilities when compared to traditional AIDC (e.g., bar coding); this technology does not need line of sight and possesses unique item-level identification, multiple tag item reading, better data storage capability, and data read-and-write capabilities.…”

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Unveiling the Potential of RFID-Enabled Intelligent Patient Management: Results of a Delphi Study

Wamba

Ngai

2010

SSRN Journal

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Information technology (IT) in general, and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in particular, are considered as key enablers of healthcare sector transformation in terms of better quality of care, improved patient management, and increased healthcare efficiency and effectiveness. There is, however, a shortage of studies on the impact of RFID technology on patient management-related processes. This study intends to fill this knowledge gap in literature by unveiling the potential of RFID-enabled intelligent patient management. Twelve patient management-related processes are identified, followed by the assessment of the impact of RFID on the said processes by a panel of experts using a three-round Delphi study. The study identifies the top five processes that may benefit from RFID technology as follows: (1) accurate patient identification for medication safety; (2) patient identification to avoid wrong drug dosage; (3) accurate patient identification; (4) infant identification in hospitals to avoid mismatching; and (5) tracking of drug supplies and procedures performed on each patient. Furthermore, the evaluation of standard deviation variation shows a high convergence of consensus among the members of the panel with regard to nine of the twelve processes. Finally, the paper discusses future research directions.

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Tracking the social dimensions of RFID systems in hospitals

Cited by 198 publications

References 11 publications

Using Survey Data to Design a RFID Centric Service System for Hospitals

Using Survey Data to Design a RFID Centric Service System for Hospitals

Key Technologies and Alogrithms’ Application in Agricultural Food Supply Chain Tracking System in E-commerce

Unveiling the Potential of RFID-Enabled Intelligent Patient Management: Results of a Delphi Study

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