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The increase of safety and the improvement of care received by the patient during their healthcare process are one of the main challenges facing health professionals. Obtaining patient traceability and minimising the occurrence of adverse events during the perscription-validation-dispensing-administration process of medication to patients, encourages making measures of improvement to ensure the quality of the processes that take place in the clinical practice of a hospital. It is therefore essential to study current leading technologies such as RFID and NFC in a sustainable way to determine the feasibility of its application in the healthcare environment.
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Martínez, M., Fontecha, J., Vizoso, J.R., Bravo, J., Cabrero-Canosa, M.J., Martín, I. (2012). RFID and NFC in Hospital Environments: Reaching a Sustainable Approach. In: Bravo, J., López-de-Ipiña, D., Moya, F. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7656. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35377-2_17
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