A RFID grouping proof protocol for medication safety of inpatient.

In order to provide enhanced medication safety for inpatients, the medical mechanism which adopts the modified grouping proof protocol is proposed in this paper. By using the grouping proof protocol, the medical staffs could confirm the authentication and integrity of a group of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags which are embedded on inpatient bracelets and the containers of drugs. This mechanism is designed to be compatible with EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 standard which is the most popular specification of RFID tags.

A study of pre-decision evaluation using influence diagram: an estimation of the benefits of influenza vaccination.

The purpose of this study is to develop a decision analysis model based on the influence diagram and estimate the benefits receiving of influenza vaccination. We collected more than 300,000 samples of elders aged over 65 years in Taiwan and then analyzed the health expenditure of the elders with and without influenza vaccination. We incorporate clinical results and the knowledge of physicians by an influence diagram.