RFID Hermes System can aid in diagnosis of dementia at early stages
Filed in archive Healthcare on January 17, 2009
Researchers at University of South Florida are working on something quite laudable. They are trying to figure out whether this RFID based system could be deployed as diagnosis tool for keeping watch on the movements of the patient. Labeled as Health Research Management and Evaluation System or HERMES (not the messenger from Greek mythology), it can track the movement of patients and on the basis of information collected it could be used for diagnosing dementia at early stages.
RFID is already being used to take care of dementia patients at medical care facilities but this RFID system would be used for diagnosing the disease at onset. Here a computer program is used for scanning patterns of movement of the person and the RFID system works towards feeding the data collected into the program so that it could be analyzed in a scientific manner and arrive at results.
Early detection becomes more important as certain drugs would work only if the patient takes them before the brain reaches a certain stage of decaying. The HERMES system is being tested and it could prove as a vital link in curing dementia before it plays havoc with the life of an individual.
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Chris MacDonald
(02/02/09 11:58pm)
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Forsikring
(02/06/09 6:33am)
You must be aware that metal and RFID don't gel along and in order to bring them closer researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS.
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Of course, not surprisingly, privacy questions arise. At the early, research phase, it's being used on elderly people in an institutional setting -- voluntariness is an issue, here. They may not realize, for instance, just what it means to have their movements monitored 24/7. I'm not saying it's necessarily problematic, but I'd be curious to know whether this particular population is hip to the standard RFID issues.
See:
http://www.researchethics.ca/blog/2009/02/is-behaviour-tracking-minima
lly.html