Tagging for nursing care

Author

Bravo, J. ; Hervas, R. ; Fuentes, Carmen ; Chavira, G. ; Nava, S.W.

Author_Institution

MAml Res. Lab., Castilla La-Mancha Univ., Ciudad Real

fYear

2008

fDate

Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

307

Abstract

Today, more and more hospitals manage patient records using computer support. Hospital personnel, however, are complaining increasingly about the complications involved in using healthcare applications. Dealing with complexity is a waste of valuable time that could be better dedicated to patient care. In this work, we present a proposal which seeks to adapt Near Field Communication technology (NFC) for nursing care. This consists of a combination of RFID and mobile phones. We propose that information management problems be solved with a single interaction by contact.

Keywords

biomedical communication; health care; information management; medical information systems; mobile radio; radiofrequency identification; RFID; computer support; healthcare; hospital personnel; information management; mobile phones; near field communication technology; nursing care; patient records; tagging; Application software; Communications technology; Health information management; Hospitals; Medical services; Mobile handsets; Personnel; Proposals; Radiofrequency identification; Tagging; Ambient Intelligence; Context Awareness; Healthcare; NFC; RFID; Visualization; ubiquitous Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-963-9799-15-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571097

Filename

4571097