Ubiquitous Use of RFID in the Health Industry

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Author(s): Mary Brown (Capella University, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 13
Source title: Ethical Issues and Security Monitoring Trends in Global Healthcare: Technological Advancements
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Steven A. Brown (Capella University, USA)and Mary Brown (Capella University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-174-4.ch012

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Information Security & Privacy / Medical Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics

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Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies are becoming ubiquitous in a variety of settings and industries. The healthcare industry has adopted the use of RFID as a means of tracking equipment, managing inventory, to locating human resources including controversial applications involving injecting chips into humans as a means of authentication. There are a variety of ethical implications to the use of this technology as well as potential health concerns that will be explored in this chapter.

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