RFID and NFC in healthcare: Safety of hospitals medication care

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2008, PervasiveHealth

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 241-244

  Lahtela, Antti ^a   Hassinen, Marko ^a   Jylhä, Virpi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

HUMAN ERRORS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONS; RESEARCH RESULTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 52149103541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2008.4571079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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