RFID based Smart Healthcare System: A Survey Analysis

Abstract

The advanced enhancements in innovation and the openness of the Internet make it conceivable to connect distinctive devices that can communicate among them. Nowadays smart devices close most of the gaps in different domains including medicine too. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) adds essence for the uninterrupted communication to these smart devices as well as the technology too. This paper analyses the systems which are being used in medical industry / domain using RFID technology. Ten selected healthcare systems were selected for this analysis and those were analyzed against eight system functionalities. This analysis was concluded with the finding and proposing a new framework as recommendation. In this analysis out of ten systems, only one system more or less reached the standard with considerable shortcomings. In order to fix this problem, a hybrid framework was proposed in combining the functionalities of the few selected systems as a single system. There would be significant improvement could be yielded with this hybrid combination of functionalities in RFID smart healthcare system than the existing systems in medical domain along with its stakeholders such as patients, doctors and other remote systems.