  This paper proposes the application of RFID technology in healthcare industry
based on its increased functionality, high reliability, easy-to-use
capabilities and low cost. After a brief presentation of RFID technologies and
their applications, the paper describes an RFID-based system that can provide
efficient facilities to allow essential information management for emergency
care across hospital boundaries. This system performs RFID-based identification
of the patients, querying and retrieving medical data from various existing
healthcare information systems, as well as storing and giving the most
clinically significant information to the clinicians. Also, the system allows
identifying and tracking RFID- tagged objects in order to provide new quality
services for the mobility of objects.
