RFID-based health center

number: 
2439
إنجليزية
Degree: 
Author: 
Marwah Mazin Talib Al-Zubaidi
Supervisor: 
Dr. Fawzi M. Al-Naima
year: 
2010
Abstract:

In the health care context, devices for automated staff / patient identification provide multiple benefits, including error reduction in drug administration, an easier and faster use of the electronic health record, insuring safety using control features when accessing confidential data, etc. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology being adopted in many business fields, especially in the medical field. RFID is a method for remotely storing and retrieving data using devices called RFID tags that can be attached to or incorporated into a product. The tag transforms the energy of radio-frequency queries from an RFID reader to respond by sending back information that they enclose. Finally, a computer hosting a specific RFID application processes the data it sends. The suggested system is an RFID-Based Health Center in Nahrain University which attempts to automate the management of the health center patients by merging RFID and web-based database technologies. The system was designed and implemented using low frequency (LF) RFID reader operated on the 125 kHz, passive RFID tags and a computer network. The system can be described as client-server architecture. The client consists of the host specific application connected to the RFID reader while the server includes the web server and database. The tag stores only a unique identifier which is associated to patient’s record that is held in the centralized database that contains personal, medical and dental information. The staff members are allowed to access the database using user name and password. The patient information can only be retrieved using the patient’s tag number.