Toward a Unified Framework for RFID Adoption in Healthcare Sector

Abstract

Healthcare organisations are attempting to aggressively use internet of things (IoT) technologies in order to improve the quality of services provided to patients and to the workforce. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is considered a promising IoT technology that offers many benefits to the healthcare industry. When management decides to adopt RFID, this decision has strategic importance for the healthcare organisation, as it affects the whole organisation and leads to significant changes through the potential to improve operational processes by enabling real-time traceability, monitoring and identification. In this paper, an extensive, comprehensive study of the factors and attributes that contribute to the decision to adopt RFID is conducted. The study presents a proposed framework for RFID use that considers three theories: the technology-organisationenvironment framework, diffusion of innovation, and the human, organisation and technology fit.