An RFID-based application for handling the workflow of radioactive patients in a nuclear medicine department

Authors:
G. Della Vecchia;M. Esposito
Affiliations:
ICAR-CNR, Via Pietro Castellino, Napoli, Italy;ICAR-CNR, Via Pietro Castellino, Napoli, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services
Year:
2008

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Applications of context-aware computing in hospital work: examples and design principles

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Healthcare Systems and Other Applications

IEEE Pervasive Computing

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Abstract

Pervasive Computing technologies can be successfully used in hospital and clinical environments in order to provide smart and enhanced healthcare services and applications. According to this vision, the paper presents an RFID-based application for handling the workflow of patients injected with radioactive substances in a nuclear medicine department. Specifically, the application exploits the RFID technology to provide automatic and non-intrusive mechanisms for i) guaranteeing the appropriateness of the clinical workflow of the injected patients and ii) accessing all the clinical information of the injected patients by automatically querying the radiological information systems.