Management System of the Whereabouts of the Clinical Record using Radio Frequency Identification(RFID)

Abstract

 In general, it is said to be impossible to manage the clinical record collectively in a large-scale hospital. We put wireless IC tag(RFID: Radio Frequency Identification) on the clinical record in the hospital of about 3,000 people in the number of outpatients, and constructed the clinical record whereabouts management system that was able to track the clinical record in real time. This system is the first case where the clinical record is used so that RFID of 2.45GHz may instantaneously read individual patient ID. We report on the important finding obtained for the selection and the operation method of RFID. However, to use the terminal of an existing system, we needed a lot of time and the labor for cooperation with an existing system though we adopted the web application.