Smart Hospitals

Smart Hospital concept incorporate RFID technologies for wide range of applications inside the Hospital.

Technologies of identification by radio frequencies (RFID) experience a rapid development and healthcare is one of its major application area

RFID applications for Hospitals

The medical equipment should embed RFID tags. In the best case the tags should be placed into the devices by the manufacturer and should contain a standardized world-wide unique identiﬁer.
On arrival, each patient receives a wristband with an embedded RFID tag storing a unique identiﬁer, and some information about him (e.g. a digital picture, a unique patient code, etc.)
The doctors, nurses, caregivers and other staff members wear a “smart RFID badge” storing their employee ID number.
All the patients’ medical histories (aka paper medical ﬁles) and other important documents are tagged with self-adhesive RFID labels containing a unique number.
The bags of blood are attached with a self-adhesive RFID label holding a unique identiﬁer, the hospital tracking number and some important information about the contained type of blood.
The blister packs and other drugs’ packages all contain RFID labels. These transponders should preferably be EPC compliant.

Installation of RFID devices

Entrance & exit of hospital are secured with RFID readers
The staff members (doctors, nurses, caregivers and other employees) each have a handheld (PDA, mobile phone, etc.) equipped with an RFID reader and possibly with a wireless (e.g. WiFi) connection to the web.
Each operating theater contains a least one RFID reader.
RFID sensors are placed in strategic galleries and important ofﬁces. In the best case, every ofﬁce should contain an RFID reader: either placed next to the door or under the desks.

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