Intelligent Technologies for Self-Sustaining,

RFID-Based, Rural E-Health Systems

Abstract:
Community-based healthcare is increasingly important for the well-being of inhabitants
of emerging economies. The community model is needed partly because roads are less
developed, limiting patients’ ability to commute from distant villages to central medical
facilities. Also, developing countries have a large rural population base. Some estimates are that
rural agriculture employs 75% of the population in developing countries. It is difficult at times
for community- based healthcare workers in developing countries to access medical records of
individual patients in the field if the records are maintained and stored at a central health facility.
In some instances, individual patients must keep their own paper-based medical record and carry
it with them to the central medical facility for follow up visits and treatment. This type of system
can be unreliable, cumbersome, and susceptible to human errors. Consistent medical histories of
individual patients can easily be lost leading to errors in diagnosis, medication, and treatment. At
best, there are cost and efficiency implications.

Existing system Proposed system

There is no proper system for storing the We propose a RFID based intelligent system
database of the patient in rural areas, where we to maintain more accurate medical records,
need a system especially for rural villages facilitate better healthcare to patients.
which is disconnected from the city. Hence we
go for proposed system.
Drawbacks:
 Medical records in papers Advantages
 This type of system can be unreliable,  More reliable.
cumbersome, and susceptible  Clear database maintenance

Working principle:
 In this proposed system we have designed a system which has controller which in turn
interfaced with PC. When the patient has entered into the health care center he/she has to show
the RFID card in the RFID reader which is interfaced with the microcontroller. The controller
will read the RFID tag and sends the data to the PC via UART protocol. In the PC the data is
already stored to that particular RFID number. And also the doctor can update the database for
the particular RFID card.

Block Diagram:

Field Section:

Power
Supply

Heart rate
Sensor PIC16F877A 4X16 LCD
Micro
Pressure Controller
Sensor
UART PC
With .Net
RFID Reader

RFID Tag
Hardware requirements:
 PIC16F877A Microcontroller with Power Supply
 Heart Rate Sensor
 Pressure Sensor
 RFID Reader & Tag
 4X16 LCD

Software requirements:
 Embedded c
 MPLAB Compiler
 .NET

Application:

 This system used in hospital to storing the database of the patient in rural areas.