Application of RFID Technology in e-Health Management and Outsourcing in Bhutan

The evolution of medicine and Information
Technology has enabled emerging health informatics to be
used in healthcare system in innovation ways. This has given
rise to recent e-health applications that support public access
to e-health facilities. This paper focuses on e-health
management and its introduction in Bhutan through the use
of RFID technology and also the use of digital health records
together with communication between the health care-givers
and patients over long distances (referred to as outsourcing).
This paper proposes a health management system using
RFID technology that tags patients, health records, health
workers and equipment for an automated database update
system for tracking and tracing.