The implement of RFID in Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine is an important link in healthcare system. There is high complexity about the medical process across with different organizations because the care operation including multiple procedures and it's hard to pre-scheduling when there are many random emergencies happened in the chaotic environment. The bottleneck of emergency medicine system is hard to integrate the virtual data and physical object in emergency medical service (EMS) in real time with limited resource. The research describes an empirical experience about how Wan-Fang hospital in Taiwan implements RFID technology in EMS at the first stage, and how we integrate with the existent EMS architecture and legacy system. We develop an RFID EMS system, and evaluate the benefit from the implementation by quantity and quality methodology. The research can be referred to practice and academic in medical informatics related fields.