NFC in medical applications with wireless sensors
Huijuan Zhang, Junlin Li · 2011
Wireless sensors have the potential to greatly affect the health monitoring systems in health care. By outfitting patients with wireless, wearable sensors, monitoring the health condition of patients is distinctly simplified. Considering the current methods of health monitoring, medical assistants or caregivers just use some instruments such as Sphygmomanometer and Electrocardiograph to record the health status of patients on daily or some hourly basis, which is definitely time-consuming. In this paper we provide a solution to this tedious and time consuming task by using Near Field communication (NFC), an upcoming technology along with wireless sensors and android applications. By implementing the architecture described in the paper, medical assistants would simply use NFC enabled devices to collect the data from patients only touching or getting it closer to patient's NFC enabled device. Data collected from wireless sensors is stored in patient's devices first, and then it is transferred to the hospital database under patients' medical record via tapping two devices directly. Thus it provides an easy way to collect the medical data and save time.