An RFID-based System for Emergency Health Care Services

Introduction

In most emergency situations, health professionals rely on patients to provide information

about their medical history. However, in some cases patients might not be able to

communicate this information, and in most countries an online integrated patient record

system has not been adopted yet. Therefore, in order to address this issue the ongoing

project MyCare Card ( MyC2 , www.myc2.org) has been established. The aim of this

project is to design, implement, and evaluate a prototype patient held electronic health

record device. Due to the wide range of user requirements, the device, its communication

interface, and its software have to be compatible with many common platforms and

operating systems. Thus, this paper is addressing one of the software compatibility

matters—the cross-platform GUI implementation. It introduces a portable object-oriented

GUI framework, suitable for a declarative layout definition, components customization,

and fine model-view code separation. It also rationalizes the hardware and software

solutions selected for this project implementation.

DESCRIPTION :

In the EXISTING SYSTEM, Health related Medical History information’s are not

recorded for the User’s Sack. Every Patient would be carrying Physical Files which

cannot be carried always in the hand. so it may not be helpful in the case of Emergency

circumstances. In the PROPOSED MODEL, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is

used for automatic Medical History Information Retrieval Hardware. Every patient is

provided RFID card which is embedded with a unique Identity Number and all the

Medical Investigation Parameters are stored in the Hospital server and can be retrieved

upon showing the RFID card. The MODIFICATION that we propose is Deployment of

Cloud Server where all the Patients Information (Medical) from different Hospitals are

stored in a Centralized Cloud Server. All the data are encrypted and upon showing the

RFID card and proper key the Data can be retrieved.

ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM

EXISTING SYSTEM:

In the Existing System, the Patient’s Biomedical Values are stored in the Hospital

Database Server, and the Reports are given to the patients in the paper format. The major

issue or the problem is the patient cannot be able to carry the files all the time during the

Period of Transit. If in the case of any emergency, the doctor cannot be able to diagnosis

the disease of the patient.

PROPOSED MODEL:

The main objective of the Project is to provide a RFID Tag to every user so that the

Relevant information are retrieved when ever it is necessary. The Relevant information

may be the (A). Personal Information which deals with the Name, Age, date of Birth,

Contact Information, Passport number, Vehicle Insurance Number, Address & so on, (B).

User’s biomedical values are stored in the Hospital Database. Every patient is allotted

with the radio Frequency identification (RFID) Card. The Main advantage is when ever

and where ever the RFID Card of the Patient is communications the main cloud server

will retrieval the patients Biomedical Data if a patient goes to some other Hospital. The

RFID will retrieve the biomedical data from the cloud server to the new hospital. (C).

RFID Card can also be used as ATM Card to perform Money Transfer. After showing the

card user can transfer money and also can do Banking Process. Apart from RFID Card,

we would also include Password & One Time Password (OTP) is also used for this

Process. All these activities are carried from the Cloud Server where relevant

information is stored & retrieved when ever it is necessary.

Software & Hardware Requirements

Software Requirements

Java1.5 or More

MS-SqlServer

Hardware Requirements

Hard disk : 40 GB

RAM : 128mb

Processor : Pentium

RFID Tag & Reader

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