Mobile healthcare service system using RFID

SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) has seriously hit to the worldwide for several months. Without a full understanding of the natural cause of illness and the mode of transmission, precautions are processed by the standard guidelines that lack of extensive system to identify and trace isolated persons, contact history of patients and infected disposals. To shorten the tracking time and increase the accuracy of infection, we introduce in this paper a MHS (mobile healthcare service) system, a platform that uses RFID (radio frequency identification) technologies and mobile devices for positioning and identifying persons and objects both for inside and outside hospital when disease taken place. Also, based on the applications for SARS infection control precautions, this system demonstrates how to receive patient's location and bio-information by using RFID technology for hospital and government to enact real-time infection control measures from the auditing mechanism among isolated patients in households or residential settings. Further, this model shows the possibility to bring medicare service that can become ubiquitous and can cross geographic barriers and enable medical information technology from e-Medicare to m-Medicare for future development in the medical industry.