Research lands author in the midst of RFID controversy and on the award stand.

摘要

When Barbara Christe and her colleagues at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) were approached by a company seeking help in adapting their radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to a clinical application, their first step was to research what studies had already been performed on the issue. They found only one study analyzing the effect of RFID systems on medical equipment, and confirmed with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) representatives that no additional studies were known to them. They decided to undertake a study of their own, and launched themselves into the middle of a controversy over the safety of these applications in the healthcare environment.