Building a Secure RFID Enabled Application for High

Building a Secure RFID Enabled Application for High Risk Drugs Control and Management to Enhance Patient Safety n n 英文摘要 In recent years, most of the countries in the world have paid the closest possible attention and raised awareness and commitment to improve the quality of patient safety. In August 2003, TJCHA (Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation) has enquired hospital personnel about adverse event and medical errors by questionnaires, the result showed that highest rate among different adverse events is medication errors including giving wrong doses、 wrong patients and wrong drugs, the false rate reached 23% of all. As often as not the medication errors caused deaths and injuries especially for controlled drugs, such incidents remind us how important the improvement must be carefully and continuously proceeded to reduce the possibility of medication errors. n In this study, we use RFID technology that doesn’t require the line of sight touch to build up the Controlled Drugs System for medication safety. Accompanying with the assistance of voice and image, this system applies the RFID’s characteristics of automatic identification and the RFID reader scans and acknowledges freely the information from RFID tags when they are within range of an electromagnetic field to refine the traditional checking process of “Five Rights and Three Checks safeguards” for medical personnel. Also, system can enhance the managements of high-risk drugs in hospital to reduce the possible human errors and improve medication safety.