Charles Hopkins
ABSTRACT
As RFID enhances many realms of the functional world including: retail, pharmaceutical, aerospace, and defense, it is beginning to show great promise in healthcare. Insurance companies constantly battle fraud among health care providers and new technologies need to be adopted to ensure a lean service-to-reimbursement relationship. This paper will investigate the current state of RFID in health care and demonstrate possible solutions pertaining to not only asset tracking and medication with RFID, but patient tracking and billing reimbursements exchange between insurance companies and practitioners. Fraudulent or not, billing errors among practitioners has continued to be on the rise creating an opportunity for RFID to better structure and secure the health care patient flow.
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Index Terms
- Securing insurance reimbursements with RFID technologies
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