Implementation of Near Field Communication based healthcare management system

Abstract

This paper proposes the application of Near Field Communication (NFC) for patient monitoring. The present paper proposes a NFC based architecture to implement patient record much faster. Different patient monitoring NFC based modules have been proposed in the paper pertaining to patients admitted to hospitals, self-care patients, patients suffering from memory loss diseases like Alzheimer, etc. With advances in medicine and technology, the focus is on creating better healthcare systems. With NFC technology, hospitals can better track patient information and update doctors' notes thus improving patient monitoring. Wearable health-related devices, ranging from heart monitors to biosensors that read body temperature, blood pressure etc. transmit critical information in real time to the patient's NFC tag. The doctor can then easily tap his/her device at the tag and then obtain the data. NFC is used to implement Electronic Medical Records (EMR) which aims at simplifying the process of keeping medical records. The specialized software stores patient history including digitized copies of x-rays, lab results and prescriptions. With the help of NFC tags, the patient's EMR can be synchronized and stored temporarily at the hospital for easy access by the physician. Further the patient's records and doctor's prescriptions for that day can also be updated.