TY - GEN
T1 - A UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system for healthcare
T2 - 2nd International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2010
AU - Polycarpou, Anastasis C.
AU - Gregoriou, George
AU - Polycarpou, Panayiotis
AU - Papaloizou, Loizos
AU - Bletsas, Aggelos
AU - Dimitriou, Antonis
AU - Sahalos, John
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents a customized design of a UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to be installed at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center (BOCOC) in Cyprus. This is a pilot project that aims at evaluating the effectiveness and overall benefits of UHF RFID technology in the healthcare sector. The purpose of the project is threefold: a) Error-free identification of in-hospital patients through the use of RFID wristbands/cards; b) drug inventory control and monitoring; c) Real Time Location Service (RTLS) capable of locating tagged objects within the premises of the hospital. For the three main pillars of the project, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed in order to run on light-weight medical tablet PCs. The application can access data from a secured central database hosting sensitive information regarding patients, drugs, medical assets, and high-value equipment. The communication between the server and the medical tablet PCs is done over an encrypted wireless local access network.
AB - This paper presents a customized design of a UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system to be installed at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Center (BOCOC) in Cyprus. This is a pilot project that aims at evaluating the effectiveness and overall benefits of UHF RFID technology in the healthcare sector. The purpose of the project is threefold: a) Error-free identification of in-hospital patients through the use of RFID wristbands/cards; b) drug inventory control and monitoring; c) Real Time Location Service (RTLS) capable of locating tagged objects within the premises of the hospital. For the three main pillars of the project, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed in order to run on light-weight medical tablet PCs. The application can access data from a secured central database hosting sensitive information regarding patients, drugs, medical assets, and high-value equipment. The communication between the server and the medical tablet PCs is done over an encrypted wireless local access network.
KW - drug inventory control
KW - e-health
KW - patient identification
KW - RFID
KW - RTLS
KW - smart labels
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885892457&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-20865-2_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-20865-2_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885892457
SN - 9783642208669
VL - 55 LNICST
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 252
EP - 259
BT - Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Y2 - 18 October 2010 through 20 October 2010
ER -