Abstract
In health care, medication errors can result in serious health risks to patients, and hospitals require a secure medication administration system to prevent such errors. This paper therefore proposes a secure medication administration method based on threshold sharing technology. When a patient visits a doctor and the doctor prescribes n medications, a photo and the personal information of the patient are encoded into n QR code transparencies that can be decoded by common QR code scanners available for smartphones. The prescription and n QR code transparencies are then stored in a hospital’s medication administration system. When the patient receives their medicine, they can scan these n QR code transparencies using a smartphone to ensure that they have all the medicines prescribed by the doctor; this function is accessible even if the patient’s phone does not have Internet access. The main purpose of the proposed system is to prevent hospitals from giving medicine to the wrong patient, or giving less than the prescribed dosage of medicine to the patient. The focus is not on the internal medicine packaging process in hospitals but on reducing the probability of counter staff giving medicine to the wrong patient. This function is of considerable importance to non-English-speaking people who are not used to reading medicine names in English.
Highlights
Introduction e National Coordinating Council forMedication Error Reporting and Prevention defines a medication error as any preventable event that may lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm when the medication is in the control of a healthcare professional, patient, or consumer [1]
In order to ensure that patients can only see their images and the QR code recording their personal information on their smartphones once all the correct medicines are scanned, a new visual cryptography method for generating meaningful QR code transparencies is proposed in this study. e aim is to ensure that patients are not shown their full patient image and the QR code recording their personal information unless they have obtained all the necessary QR codes transparencies
An image sharing-based solution is presented for securing medication administration to patients
Summary
Ensuring patient safety has always been an important issue of medicine management systems. E method proposed in this study is based on image sharing technology and uses visual cryptography to ensure that the images used cannot be viewed by patients until all the correct medicines are scanned. In most studies focusing on visual cryptography, secret images are encrypted into noisy transparencies with size expansion. Unlike previous research on visual cryptography, the proposed method combines visual cryptography with QR codes so that each transparency is unable to see the original image, but the QR code can be read. Unlike previous visual cryptography methods, the proposed method generates neither meaningful nor completely noisy transparencies. When n QR code transparencies are scanned, an image that is sufficient to recognize the patient and a QR code that records the patient’s personal information are revealed. Proposed Method e proposed approach has the same properties as traditional visual cryptography and has the ability to
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