The RAND Corporation offers a comprehensive and FREE report on RFID in Health Care.
The RAND Corporation has released a report on the use of RFID in Health Care. RAND is a nonprofit research organization that provides objective research and analysis relevant to challenges in private and public sectors worldwide.
This RFID in health care report is entitled “Study on the requirements and options for RFID application in healthcare. Identifying areas for Radio Frequency Identification deployment in healthcare delivery: A review of relevant literature.” The report reviews 325 sources of RFID deployment information in the health care space from research literature to case studies.
Sources include policy documents, industry articles, scientific publications and a general literature review on RFID technology. It’s aim is to “[give] the reader an overview of all relevant issues related to RFID deployment in healthcare delivery.”
The top five categories of “enablers” for RFID adoption in health care it identifies, are:
1. RFID’s capacity to enable better healthcare delivery
2. The clear business case for certain RFID applications
3. The use of sound implementation approaches
4. The technological superiority of RFID applications
5. The existence of government incentives/support for healthcare RFID
It also identifies the top five barrier/obstacle categories, which are as:
1. Direct RFID costs
2. Privacy, security, data integrity and legal issues
3. Technical issues
4. Operational/ managerial challenges
5. Cultural and ethical concerns
This is a thorough, objective resource for anyone interested in RFID in health care. It’s also free to download in its entirety from the RAND web site. Download the full PDF from RAND.ORG here.
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