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

Published: 21 July 2008 Publication History

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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 non-intrusive 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.

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Mobiquitous '08: Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services
July 2008
437 pages
ISBN:9789639799271

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

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Published: 21 July 2008

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  1. RFID
  2. nuclear medicine
  3. pervasive healthcare

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