Application of RFID in an Integrated Healthcare Environment

Author

Booth, P. ; Frisch, P.H. ; Miodownik, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Phys., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

119

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an evolving technology that can utilize its capabilities within a healthcare environment to locate and track staff, equipment, and patients. RFID has the potential to significantly improve operations by actively monitoring asset flow through an organization and enabling this data to be analyzed for process improvement. It can also help to provide validation to existing process improvement initiatives set forth by an institution. Furthermore, RFID can be integrated into other operations including patient safety, clinical operations, billing, and theft prevention

Keywords

biomedical communication; health care; medical information systems; radiofrequency identification; RFID; asset flow monitoring; billing; clinical operations; integrated healthcare environment; patient safety; radiofrequency identification; theft prevention; Cities and towns; Data analysis; Manufacturing; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Safety; Signal resolution; Transmitters; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259389

Filename

4461698