Abstract
The past two decades have witnessed the explosive growth of RFID-based applications in healthcare settings. This includes applications that are related to ePedigree for pharmaceuticals, asset tracking and workflow management in hospitals, pervasive healthcare, among others. We consider some of the benefits that are provided by RFID-based systems in healthcare settings. We then provide a critical evaluation of some of the challenges that are faced by these applications.
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Tu, YJ., Chi, H., Zhou, W., Kapoor, G., Eryarsoy, E., Piramuthu, S. (2019). Critical Evaluation of RFID Applications in Healthcare. In: Doss, R., Piramuthu, S., Zhou, W. (eds) Future Network Systems and Security. FNSS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34353-8_18
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