The use of e-health technology in healthcare environment: The role of RFID technology

E-health technologies are designed specifically for facilitating challenges in the healthcare environment, and in 2003 the area of e-health technologies was identified by the SDO Programme Board as an important area for future research [1]. E-health encompasses a variety of technologies from telemedicine and mobile health to big data, Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR), Decision Support System (DSS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and a wide range of health services the final goal of which is to increase the quality of data, to reduce health errors, to enhance the health status of patients, and above all to facilitate taking care of the health requirement of the population [2]. Among e-health technologies, RFID technology is chosen since it is considered one of the top 20 technologies until 2020 [3], and its usage in healthcare has become more popular because of its unique characteristics over the other e-health technologies. In this paper the attempt is to investigate the impact of e-health technologies on today needs of healthcare industries with a special focus on the advantages of using RFID technology in healthcare.