Title :
RFID and IPv6-enabled Ubiquitous Medication Error and Compliance Monitoring System
Author :
Chen, Y.C. ; Liu, C.H. ; Wang, C.C. ; Hsieh, M.F.
Author_Institution :
Asia Univ., Taichung
Abstract :
Became of the world´s rapidly-aging population´ costs for healthcare are getting higher and higher due partially to people who failed to comply with their medication regimens costing billion per year and affecting few million patients. This paper presents a combination of IPv6 network and RFID-based medication error monitoring system integrating with Wi-Fi and GSM wireless communication techniques that is able to collect user´s medicine-taking records any time - anywhere as reference for the purpose of proper diagnosis and reduce the healthcare costs as a result.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; cellular radio; computerised monitoring; health care; radiofrequency identification; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; GSM wireless communication techniques; IPv6-enabled ubiquitous medication error; RFID; compliance monitoring system; healthcare; medication error monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Costs; GSM; Home automation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Application and Services, 2007 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0942-X
DOI :
10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381614
