Argument against my position: Medication errors and adverse
effects in patients are preventable by the implementation of Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) in medication administration.
Argument 1: The exploitation
of radio frequency identification can disrupt patients’
security which place them at a greater risk for fraud and
identity theft.
When RFID is misused through carelessness and
oversight from healthcare professionals, it is possible that
unauthorized personnel can obtain personal information about
patients (Freeman, 2007, p. 62).
Argument 2: The RFID
tags attached to the patient, blood products, and other objects
have the potential to continually transmit data to the RFID reader
without an individual’s consent or knowledge.
If the RFID tags are not disabled, then
there is a higher probability that patients’ personal
confidentially may be disclosed to the public and used for
nefarious purposes, which violates the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) (Freeman,
2007, p. 62).
Another disadvantage of the radio frequency
identification system is that all handheld RFID readers
require an internet to function. Therefore, if the Wi-Fi
system is slow or not operating optimally, it can affect the
ability of the RFID system to deliberate the process of
locating, identifying and tracking samples (Hawrylak, Schimke,
Hale, & Papa, 2011, p. 3492).
Sources:
Freeman,
E. H. (2007). RFIDs and personal privacy. Information Systems
Security, 16(1), 61-64. doi: 0.1080/10658980601051821
Database or web link: ProQuest Central
database
Type of Source: Scholarly
Is it peer reviewed, refereed or a legal
review? Yes
Are there citations inside the article? Yes
Bias evaluation: No bias
Hawrylak, P. J., Sc
himke, N., Hale, J., & Papa, M. (2011). Security risks
associated with radio frequency identification in medical
environments. Journal of
Medical Systems, 36(6), 3491–3505.
doi:10.1007/s10916-011-9792-0
Database or web link: Health Management
database
Type of Source: scholarly
Is it peer reviewed, refereed or a legal
review? Yes
Are there citations inside the article? Yes
Bias evaluation: No Bias
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M. (2007, July 30).
Human-implantable RFID chips: Some ethical and privacy
concerns. Healthcare IT
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Database or web link:
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/human-implantable-rfid-chips-some-ethical-and-privacy-concerns
Type of Source: popular
Is it peer reviewed, refereed or a legal review?
No
Are there citations inside the
article? no
Bias evaluation: No citations and references
noted. Written by an
associate editor of Healthcare IT News. No evidence based
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