Secure medical administration in hospital

Patient safety has gained importance after an increase in the number of errors made in healthcare. The number of deaths due to healthcare errors is in the 8th spot, among deaths due to traffic accidents, breast cancer, AIDS etc. The main goal is raising the patient health quality and patient safety. JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) recommends the "five right" principles in all hospitals. With this principle the correct patient, the correct medicine, the correct dosage, the correct method at the correct time philosophy is practiced. This principle has to be executed correctly for a good quality healthcare process. After the evaluation of the state of the patient, the needed care and service has to be identified and planned. This is the area where IT is gaining a major role in healthcare. Due to their characteristics RFID and NFC technologies can be used to set up a ubiquitous system to reduce human errors in a hospital. Our project involves the control and monitoring of the medicine and the medication procedure of an inpatient, after being granted the inpatient status by a doctor. One of the main goals of our project is to monitor the security of the medication procedure and control the overall medication process. The solution is a system which is made up of tags placed on inpatients for identification, tags in identification cards of the doctors and nurses for treatment and medication tracking and mobile devices as tools to relay information to the back end servers. It is planned that the tags are used to keep information about the actors of the procedure. The developed system described in our project will improve the monitoring of inpatient's medication and by doing so, it will boost human healthcare, help to improve the technological infrastructure of our university and form a positive step towards our country's economy and development of the software sector.