RFID and IPv6-enabled Ubiquitous Medication Error and Compliance Monitoring System

Author

Chen, Y.C. ; Liu, C.H. ; Wang, C.C. ; Hsieh, M.F.

Author_Institution

Asia Univ., Taichung

fYear

2007

fDate

19-22 June 2007

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

108

Abstract

Became of the world´s rapidly-aging population´ costs for healthcare are getting higher and higher due partially to people who failed to comply with their medication regimens costing billion per year and affecting few million patients. This paper presents a combination of IPv6 network and RFID-based medication error monitoring system integrating with Wi-Fi and GSM wireless communication techniques that is able to collect user´s medicine-taking records any time - anywhere as reference for the purpose of proper diagnosis and reduce the healthcare costs as a result.

Keywords

biomedical communication; cellular radio; computerised monitoring; health care; radiofrequency identification; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; GSM wireless communication techniques; IPv6-enabled ubiquitous medication error; RFID; compliance monitoring system; healthcare; medication error monitoring system; Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Costs; GSM; Home automation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Application and Services, 2007 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0942-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381614

Filename

4265808