An RFID-based application for handling the workflow of radioactive patients in a nuclear medicine department

G. Della Vecchia; M. Esposito

2nd International ICST Workshop on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments

Research Article

An RFID-based application for handling the workflow of radioactive patients in a nuclear medicine department

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3852,
    author={G. Della Vecchia  and M. Esposito},
    title={An RFID-based application for handling the workflow of radioactive patients in a nuclear medicine department},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={SMPE},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Pervasive Healthcare RFID nuclear medicine},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3852}
}

G. Della Vecchia
M. Esposito
Year: 2010
An RFID-based application for handling the workflow of radioactive patients in a nuclear medicine department
SMPE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3852

G. Della Vecchia ¹^,*, M. Esposito¹^,*

1: ICAR-CNR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy.

*Contact email: gennaro.dellavecchia@na.icar.cnr.it, massimo.esposito@na.icar.cnr.it

Abstract

Pervasive Computing technologies can be successfully used in hospital and clinical environments in order to provide smart and enhanced healthcare services and applications. According to this vision, the paper presents an RFID-based application for handling the workflow of patients injected with radioactive substances in a nuclear medicine department. Specifically, the application exploits the RFID technology to provide automatic and nonintrusive mechanisms for i) guaranteeing the appropriateness of the clinical workflow of the injected patients and ii) accessing all the clinical information of the injected patients by automatically querying the radiological information systems.

Keywords: Pervasive Healthcare RFID nuclear medicine

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3852