title: Hospital automation system RFID-based: technology embedded in smart devices (cards, tags and bracelets).
abstract: RFID is a technology being adopted in many business fields, especially in the medical field. This work has the objective to present a system for automation of a hospital clinical analysis laboratory. This system initially uses contactless smart cards to store patient's data and for authentication of hospital employees in the system. The proposed system also uses RFID tags stuck to containers containing patient's collected samples for the correct identification of the patient who gave away the samples. This work depicts a hospital laboratory workflow, presents the system modeling and deals with security matters related to information stored in the smart cards.
authors.affiliation: Symetrix Corporation, Colorado Springs, USA. gustavo@symetrixcorp.com
authors.forename: Gustavo H P
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Florentino
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Paz de Araujo
authors.forename: Heitor U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Bezerra
authors.forename: Helio B A
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Junior
authors.forename: Marcelo Araujo
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Xavier
authors.forename: Vinicius S V
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Ricardo A A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de M Valentim
authors.forename: Antonio H F
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Morais
authors.forename: Ana M G
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Guerreiro
authors.forename: Glaucio B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Brandao
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000458:organization & administration; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration