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RFID Application Infant Security Systems of Healthcare Organizations

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Abstract

The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is actually considered a hot topic in all scientific areas and has been described as a major enabling technology for the automation of many processes. Although it is not a new technology it has only recently come to the awareness of the public and widely used in many sectors and particularly in the Healthcare. This paper aims to illustrate the RFID technology deployment in Healthcare organisations, more precisely in infant security systems inside the hospitals. To attain this objective a case study about the experience of three hospitals and one RFID technology provider is presented to highlight the main architectural characteristics, functionality, and advantages associated with the RFID deployment.

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  1. UNIDEMI, Department of Management and Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Susana G. Azevedo

  2. UNIDEMI, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Helena Carvalho & Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Depart de Enge Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

  3. LeBow College of Business Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Benjamin Lev

  4. Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute ofTechnology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

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Azevedo, S.G., Carvalho, H., Cruz-Machado, V.A. (2014). RFID Application Infant Security Systems of Healthcare Organizations. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_92

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