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Deployment of RFID in Healthcare Facilities—Experimental Design in MRI Department

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Patient safety has become an important issue due to medical errors. Some health care systems use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to identify patients during medical procedures. However, the RFID data readability especially depends upon the environment, an investigation of data reliability and signal loss is essential to making an effective deployment plan. The operation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the major source of electromagnetic interference in the hospital. Therefore, this research conducts an experimental design of reading performance considering various notable factors in the MRI department. In addition to the readability experiment, this paper also measures the efficiency and reliability of implementing RFID technology in the MRI department using a simulation approach and helps hospitals by providing the measured outcomes.

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Work on this paper is supported by Taichung Veterans General Hospital/Tunghai University Joint Research Program,(TCVGH-T987810) and National Science Council, Republic of China, Grant No. NSC 99-2221-E-029-010.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chen-Yang Cheng

  2. Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Jyh-Wen Chai

  3. National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jyh-Wen Chai

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Cheng, CY., Chai, JW. Deployment of RFID in Healthcare Facilities—Experimental Design in MRI Department. J Med Syst 36, 3423–3433 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-011-9796-9

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