Introducing RFID technology in dynamic and time-critical medical settings: Requirements and challenges

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 958-974

  Parlak, Siddika ^a   Sarcevic, Aleksandra ^b   Marsic, Ivan ^a   Burd, Randall S ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Healthcare; Object tracking; RFID; Task analysis; Trauma resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; COLLOCATED COLLABORATION; GAIN INSIGHT; MEDICAL SETTINGS; MEDICAL TOOLS; OBJECT TRACKING; OPTIMAL TRACKING; RF-ID TAGS; RFID TECHNOLOGY; TASK ANALYSIS; WORK PRACTICES;

HEALTH CARE; JOB ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RESUSCITATION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MONITOR; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; SENSOR; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE; VASCULAR ACCESS; VENTILATOR; VITAL SIGN;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE; RESUSCITATION; TRAUMA CENTERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84865960966     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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