Heathcare and eldercare

1. RFID IN
HEALTHCARE
By: Nazarenu Fernandes

2. WHY RFID IN
HEALTHCARE ???

3. ADVANTAGES
Robustness:
•Survive high Temperatures (Sterilization)
•Survive Dirt, water, blood
Unobtrusiveness:
•No connecting physical media (wireless)
•Can be embedded behind or underneath surfaces
Ease of Use:
•User-friendly
•No explicit scanning required

4. ADVANTAGES
Value Proposition:
•Prevents patients from being misplaced
•Ensure right tools for an operation
•Reduce time spent to search equipment
•Assist elderly people

5. ADVANTAGES OVER BAR-CODE
RFID offers some distinct benefits over BAR-CODE:
• No “line of sight” requirements
• More automated reading
• Less labour required
• Improved read rates
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• Larger data capacity
• Ability to “write” information on a tag

6. HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT USE
TRACKING PEOPLE SAFEGUARD ASSIST MEDICAL
AND OBJECTS EQUIPMENT USE PERSONAL

7. TRACKING PEOPLE AND OBJECTS
•Hospitals are busy environments
•Equipments needs to be found quickly
•Finding the right tool for the right patient is critical
Analogous to SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Supply Doctors, Nurses, patients and equipment
Management Rapidly locate the above in the hospital

11. SAFEGUARD EQUIPMENT USE
•Use small RFID readers in hospital equipment
•Examples: Use in Blood bags, IV drips, anesthesia lines
•Ensures correct item connected to correct patient at correct time
•Reduces treatment errors
•Relieves stress from the nurses

12. SAFEGUARD EQUIPMENT USE
APPLICATION
Verify if corect drug is consumed

13. BLOOD TRANSFUSION - PROBLEMS
Most Problem Arise due to Incorrect Blood transfused

14. BLOOD LABELING
Blood packet – Tagged and stored
Verify Before Transfusion

15. MARKETS
Alerted when he picks any of the unsuitable (medically) product

16. ASSIST MEDICAL PERSONAL
•Show current state of an activity
•Display information
•Issue reminders
•Notify other personnel
•Asses students performance ( In medical colleges)

17. SKILL ASSESSMENT: IMPROVES
•Objectivity
•Efficiency
•Reliability

19. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Patient With RFID
Transponder
View And
Update Web-Server
Patient And
Information DataBase
RFID Wi-Fi
Interface Interface

21. HOME
ELDERCARE

22. HOME ELDERCARE
•Medication
•Exercise Use RFID
•Eating properly
•Hygiene
DISTANT

23. HOME ELDERCARE
•Permit Elders to enjoy high quality life
•Reduce burden on care givers
•Display current status to distant care giver
•Provide real time “Okness Checking”
•RFID can help with exercise, nutrition and social health

24. CHALLENGES: RADIO FREQ. ISSUES
•Hospitals have variety of radiation emitting devices
•Example: MRI units, X-Ray machines, Microwave sterilizers
•Interference of the above with the said technology can be concern
•To prevent EMI (electromagnetic interference ) ban cell
phones, provide proper shielding to all devices concerned

25. CHALLENGES: PRIVACY AND SECURITY
•Visibility of information exchange: Acknowledge that data is
read, maintain history of read data
•Consent: secure the data by using fingerprinting, retinal ID, digital
signatures
•Security levels: Use of critical data only visible to the doctor. No
access to patient

26. FUTURE AND CONCLUSION
•Elimination of Technological hindrances
•Larger memory capacities
•Wide reading ranges
•Faster processing

27. FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!!!
RFID APPLICATION
Presentation By: Nazarenu Fernandes