Hospital automation system RFID-based: Technology embedded in smart devices (cards, tags and bracelets)
Gustavo Henrique Florentino, Carlos A. Paz de Araújo, Heitor U. Bezerra, Hélio B. de A. Júnior, Marcelo Araujo Xavier, Vinicius S. V. de Souza, Ricardo Alexsandro de Medeiros Valentim, Antônio Higor Freire de Morais, Ana M. G. Guerreiro, Gláucio Bezerra Brandão · 2008
RFID is a technology being adopted in many business fields, especially in the medical field. This work has the objective to present a system for automation of a hospital clinical analysis laboratory. This system initially uses contactless smart cards to store patient's data and for authentication of hospital employees in the system. The proposed system also uses RFID tags stuck to containers containing patient's collected samples for the correct identification of the patient who gave away the samples. This work depicts a hospital laboratory workflow, presents the system modeling and deals with security matters related to information stored in the smart cards.