Electronic data capture in healthcare—NFC as easy way for self-reported health status information

Abstract

We present an electronic data capture (EDC) system based on Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC is an easy way for self-reporting of health status information. As traditional paper-based questionnaires are time-and cost-consuming and may be affected by low patient compliance, our EDC system allows patient monitoring and electronic data acquisition directly from the patient's home. It enables real time representation and analysis of patient data and thus allows direct medical intervention by physicians. The results of a field test indicate that NFC is almost as simple as filling out a paper-based questionnaire. During the study patients used the prototype autonomously and with minimal errors. Further, NFC technology was perceived as very intuitive and the information quality of each patient's health status could be improved. Based on the findings we derive recommendations for future research and applications of NFC based electronic data capture systems.

The Survey on Near Field Communication

“…Some studies on self-diagnosis and medication are also performed using NFC. In [ 123 ], the authors present an electronic data capture system based on NFC that makes use of smart posters and allows patients to assess their health status. The poster consists of pre-set questions about possible problematic areas towards the diagnosis of illness, which can be answered by the home-care patients using their smartphones.…”

Implementasi Near Field Communication (NFC) dan Kartu RFID sebagai Perangkat Mobile Presensi Mahasiswa

“…Sistem pakar berbasiskan teknologi NFC dan telah diimplementasikan dan diuji dikampus tersebut. Di bidang kesehatan juga telah diteliti sebuah electronic data capture (EDC) sistem berbasis NFC [6]. NFC adalah cara mudah untuk diri-pelaporan informasi status kesehatan.…”

Adoption of near field communication in S-Library application for information science

“…NFC technology simplifies the transaction process, provides easy content delivery and enables information sharing. This technology can also provide more service opportunities for various stake holders such as for tourism (Egger, 2013;Pesonen and Horster, 2012), in the classroom (Shen et al, 2014), healthcare (Prinz et al, 2012;Benelli and Pozzebon, 2010;Jara et al, 2012), mobile operators (payment/ticketing) (Tan et al, 2014;Harnisch and Uitz, 2013), banks, public transportation (Salonen, 2012) and merchants, with faster transactions, less cash handling and new operator services.…”