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Figure 8. The clinic system user interface, based within an industry standard ERP package. Various forms are accessible from the
left-hand-side selection menu, including patient card, clinic visits, outstanding investigations, and medical resources.

Mobile Tracking System
The overall merits of an RFID-backed community healthcare solution is to enable easy and reliable
identification of individual patients, maintain more
accurate and consistent medical records, and most
important of all, facilitate better healthcare outreach
and enhance the quality of life for the individuals in
communities remote from the central medical facility.

The large amount of collected data
creates the scope for data mining ...
allowing more informed decisionmaking at a number of levels.
In addition, it can also help to relieve the load on an
overcrowded central medical facility and improve the
efficiency of that facility to focus resources on the more
specialized medical cases. Clinics can increase reve-

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nue opportunities by broadening the addressable base
of patients to more remote locations.

RFID System
Radio Frequency Identification is an established wireless technology. The use of near field communications
or RFID for public health in developing countries has
been proposed and the technology is not completely
new. The solution framework described here is built on
established concepts but leverages the collaboration
between community healthcare workers and the central
medical facility to design a sustainable solution that
can potentially improve the quality of life for people in
underserved communities.
The system uses standard Mifare cards (13.56Mhz
ISO14443A or compatible tags), and multiple RFID readers
[7]. The RFID cards are passive; the energy for transmission and reception by the RFID tag is harvested from the
read device through electrical induction, as the tag has no
inherent power source. Tags come in different forms, but
deployment is only using cards at this stage. Card layout
is designed using Asure ID software, linking to SQL for
acquiring patient details, as depicted in Fig. 10. The card is
printed using a FARGO DTC1000 direct-to-card printer.

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