A digital personal health record (PHR) is a computer-based software application that allows you to store a variety of personal health information including illnesses, hospitalizations, encounters (i.e. visits and communications), journal information in between doctor visits, medications, allergies, immunizations, surgeries, lab results, and family history. The personal health record differs from an electronic medical record which is a similar...more
A middle ground between independent living and nursing homes, assisted living homes aim to foster independence to residents who want to live alone, to maintain a sense of self. They offer a balance of residential living and help with day-to-day activities with the provision of medical and recreational services. If you are looking for an assisted living home for you or your dear one, then certain elements require serious consideration...more
The recently released ANSI/HIBCC 4.0 standard, created by the Health Industry Business Communications Council provides guidance for use of item/package level data formatting for product identification plus recommends high and low frequencies for individual passive RFID tags in hospitals and healthcare settings. Now healthcare systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers can use new systems that combine HF RFID with sensors.Besides the concern that improperly tuned passive UHF systems could interfere with sensitive equipment, 13.56 MHz High frequency (HF) RFID provides a secure proximity read ensuring 100% accuracy on reads that simply cant be achieved with active UHF. HF also provides superior performance on/around liquids and tissues. HF RFID ensures that matching tags to medical equipment and devices does not require complex anti-collision algorithms.However, besides monitoring of identification, healthcare applications and in particular, pharmaceuticals, sensors are used for monitoring of a variety of parameters like temperature, humidity, IR and shock for temperature sensitive materials and equipment. However, those sensors are either hardwired or add to...more
When senior citizens find that they have a harder time doing daily activities and functioning in everyday life, they may consider the option of utilizing some kind of long-term care. There are many different ways that senior citizens and those coordinating their elder care can seek assistance without creating a financial burden. Though some options...more
For many in their senior years, moving to live in a nursing home is the best thing they can do to maintain their quality of life. There's really no substitute for having around the clock professional care in a caring home, especially if there are serious health issues involved. But it's not always easy to find a nursing home that offers everything...more
As new generation NFC tag readers have been introduced to help NFC system, NFC events are emerging continually, such as Mass Transit , Access Control, Contactless Automatic Fare Collection Programs for Music Concerts, Conference and Sports. By scanning the NFC tags or cards within 10cm, the NFC tag reader combining the smart phone and system could save time and costs for events or organizers. And the latest NFC Tag Readers released by DAILY RFID have also flooded into NFC markets to enhance NFC events management.Delivering unmatched performance, the NFC Tag Reader allows people to carry easily and collecting or detecting information fast and exactly. Available in both desktop and portable reader types, these NFC Tag Readers are pretty suitable for NFC system indoors and outdoors applications. For the desktop NFC tag Readers could make the attendees record seen from computers or phones screen by connecting computer via the USB or RS232 interface. For the mobile NFC Tag Readers, they deliver powerful force to NFC-capable applications and promote the NFC events.Certainly, the NFC Tag Readers from DAILY RFID, as the portable devices to support secure personal identity verification and...more
As RFID NFC technology has made its way into NFC Tags and RFID Tags in the world and Both NFC tags and RFID tags are rather prevalent, many people can experience the big wave of NFC Tags and RFID Tags by getting in touch with them in the market. In...more
Looking for ways toreduce cost and improve accuracy in supplying drugs on their hospitals crash carts, The University of Maryland Medical Center has jumped into using radio frequency identification or RFID.The University of Maryland Medical Center...more
The technology of deploying mobile and related applications in providing easy healthcare facilities is called as mHealth or mobile health. The main feature of this technology hybrid is that it allows a practitioner to contribute to health services...more
Information technology (IT) aims to empower its users through rapid deployment of systematic data. IT has influenced several industries around the world by introducing novel work ethics, which has affected trillions of lives around the globe. With US...more
When you are struggling with parents who are aging and having medical ailments, it may be time to look into adult home care or specific elder care programs such as Bethesda Home care. If you are serious about considering elder care for aging parents,...more
Healthcare technology is to modernize the processes of improving the health of patients through introduction of improved features in the conventional methods like diagnosing or treating of diseases. Improved life expectancy rates have been achieved...more