Here is a video on the use of RFID in Healthcare:
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Showing posts with label Healthcare. Show all posts
RFID in Healthcare
These days Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being increasingly used in a number of industries as a tool for integration. One of the fields where this technology is proving to be very useful is the Healthcare industry. RFIDs can be used to monitor the movement of the patient, administering the right medicines to the patients, also to monitor if the right patient is being operated upon or not. It helps track the supplies of medicines/blood samples before and after administering the dosage. Using RFID enables the hospital to track which materials have been used and whether the disposables have been discarded or not. This kind of tracking is possible for every single patient in the hospital.
SI Challenges faced by the Healthcare Industry
An article by Jane Grimson, William Grimson and Wilhelm Hasselbring highlights the Systems Integration (SI) Challenges faced by the Healthcare industry.
These days, one of the major concerns of organizations in the Healthcare system is their inability to share information with other organizations. The need to be able to share data is required for the progress towards efficiency and cost effectiveness.
The authors of the article talk about ways in which SI can and is being used in the Healthcare industry today. The article talks about achieving Federated Healthcare in order to provide greater accessibility to patient information. A couple of examples of middleware components that provide interconnection of distributed systems are also discussed.
In order to have confidence in the use of IT in the Healthcare industry, Security and Confidentiality of sensitive patient data are required. The article lays emphasis on these characteristics and the challenges encountered by them.
The article can be found at:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=999418
These days, one of the major concerns of organizations in the Healthcare system is their inability to share information with other organizations. The need to be able to share data is required for the progress towards efficiency and cost effectiveness.
The authors of the article talk about ways in which SI can and is being used in the Healthcare industry today. The article talks about achieving Federated Healthcare in order to provide greater accessibility to patient information. A couple of examples of middleware components that provide interconnection of distributed systems are also discussed.
In order to have confidence in the use of IT in the Healthcare industry, Security and Confidentiality of sensitive patient data are required. The article lays emphasis on these characteristics and the challenges encountered by them.
The article can be found at:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=999418
