A New Specimen Management System Using RFID Technology

Shim, Hun; Uh, Young; Lee, Seung Hwan; Yoon, Young Joon

doi:10.1007/s10916-009-9417-z

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“…3. The system has the ability to present the collector with a list of pending laboratory orders and generate unique bar-coded or RFID labels 16 at the bedside upon scanning the patient identification wristband or other unique physical patient identifiers. 17 The labels generated at the point of collection should include a minimum of 2 patient identifiers, as well as date and time of collection, collector identity, urgency of the order, and as much as possible, the abbreviated names for tests requested.…”

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The Ideal Laboratory Information System

Sepulveda

Young

2013

Archives of Pathology &Amp; Laboratory Medicine

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Context.-Laboratory information systems (LIS) are critical components of the operation of clinical laboratories. However, the functionalities of LIS have lagged significantly behind the capacities of current hardware and software technologies, while the complexity of the information produced by clinical laboratories has been increasing over time and will soon undergo rapid expansion with the use of new, high-throughput and high-dimensionality laboratory tests. In the broadest sense, LIS are essential to manage the flow of information between health care providers, patients, and laboratories and should be designed to optimize not only laboratory operations but also personalized clinical care.Objective.-To list suggestions for designing LIS with the goal of optimizing the operation of clinical laboratories while improving clinical care by intelligent management of laboratory information.Data Sources.-Literature review, interviews with laboratory users, and personal experience and opinion.Conclusions.-Laboratory information systems can improve laboratory operations and improve patient care. S ince the 1970s, laboratory information systems (LIS) have been critical components of the operation of clinical laboratories. They were initially developed to collect, record, present, organize, and archive laboratory results, often with a focus on generating information for proper financial management of the laboratory. While information technology in general is advancing at an increasingly faster rate, particularly in the hardware domain but also in software development, LIS have not evolved correspondingly. For example, the current LIS make very limited use of artificial intelligence approaches such as neural 1 or Bayesian 2 networks, fuzzy logic, 3 genetic algorithms, 4 and artificial immune recognition systems.5 Health care systems in general can be characterized as conservative and resistant to change and current health care information systems (HIS) and LIS are a reflection of this conservative approach. Despite the potential benefits in cost-efficiency and patient care improvements possible with well-designed HIS/LIS, most of these systems lag significantly behind the possibilities afforded by current information technology. In fact, some of these systems have deficiencies that most homeand Web-based software have long overcome, such as efficient navigation, rapid response, and spelling correction.Modern clinical laboratories are purveyors of information, in the form of laboratory results, which may be numbers, text, graphs, or other images, together with interpretative data, to assist health care providers in delivering optimal patient care. The complexity of the information produced by clinical laboratories has been increasing over time, and with the advent of large-scale analytic techniques, such as microarrays and next-generation sequencing, the amount of data produced will rapidly grow by several orders of magnitude. Advanced developments in data management and bioinformatics will need to be incorporated into LIS ...

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Section: Desirable Functionalities Of An Order Appropriateness Expertmentioning

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The Ideal Laboratory Information System

Sepulveda

Young

2013

Archives of Pathology &Amp; Laboratory Medicine

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“…In recent years, passive RFID has become a rapidly adopted technology in healthcare environments for various purposes, such as Shim et al proposed to use RFID for automatic management of specimen [3], Rogers et al applied RFID to surgical sponges to reduced or eliminate instances of gossypiboma [4], Vecchia and Esposito proposed to use RFID technology in Nuclear Medicine Department (NMD) to identify and locate patients [5], and Lai et al adopted RFID technology to guard inpatient safety [6]. From these proposed papers, it is clear to know that EPCglobal Class-1 RFID is a commonly used device in healthcare environments, due to the advantages of low cost, small size, and portability.…”

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Utilize Common Criteria Methodology for Secure Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment

Hou

2010

J Med Syst

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RFID technology is widely used in healthcare environments to ensure patient safety. Therefore, the testing of RFID tags, such as performance tests and security evaluations, is necessary to ensure inter-operational functional compatibility with standards. A survey of the literature shows that while standards that are around RFID performance tests have been addressed, but the same is not true for security evaluations. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce the Common Criteria security evaluation methodology, also known as ISO/IEC 15408, for the security evaluation of RFID tags and propose a framework as a minimal requirement for RFID tags to improve security assurance.

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“…The authors in [ 19 ] implemented the HF range RFID tags (13.56 Mhz) for the specimen management system in Yonsei University Wonju Christian Hospital for the indoor clinical laboratory. Instead of barcodes and stickers, the RFID tags containing patient information are stuck on the specimen holders.…”

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Deployment of Smart Specimen Transport System Using RFID and NB-IoT Technologies for Hospital Laboratory

Chit

Truong

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Sensors

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In this study, we propose a specimen tube prototype and smart specimen transport box using radio frequency identification (RFID) and narrow band–Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology to use in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. Our proposed method replaces the existing system, based on barcode technology, with shortage usage and low reliability. In addition, tube-tagged barcode has not eliminated the lost or incorrect delivery issues in many laboratories. In this solution, the passive RFID tag is attached to the surface of the specimen tube and stores information such as patient records, required tests, and receiver laboratory location. This information can be written and read multiple times using an RFID device. While delivering the specimen tubes via our proposed smart specimen transport box from one clinical laboratory to another, the NB-IoT attached to the box monitors the temperature and humidity values inside the box and tracks the box’s GPS location to check whether the box arrives at the destination. The environmental condition inside the specimen transport box is sent to the cloud and can be monitored by doctors. The experimental results have proven the innovation of our solution and opened a new dimension for integrating RFID and IoT technologies into the specimen logistic system in the hospital.

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A New Specimen Management System Using RFID Technology

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

The Ideal Laboratory Information System

The Ideal Laboratory Information System

Utilize Common Criteria Methodology for Secure Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment

Deployment of Smart Specimen Transport System Using RFID and NB-IoT Technologies for Hospital Laboratory

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