Development of a clinical registration system using RFID: article

This paper presents on the development of a prototype Clinical Registration System using RFID. The system developed was to enhance the management system in clinic and mainly proposed for Pusat Perubatan Angkatan Tentera (PPAT) in Kem 5 Rejimen Sempadan (5 RS). Most clinics nowadays are still using the traditional method that is, using pen and red card and some clinics are already implement a computerized registration system at their clinic. This latest registration system can be developed to offer more benefits by interfacing it with RFID technology. The new designed system only requires patient to scan their smartcard when registering at the counter and their personal information will automatically be updated in the system. To achieve this, both hardware and software, including database is developed suite to its objectives to show its functionality. The main development tools used for this system are ATMEGA328, Ethernet Shield, RFID module, Arduino IDE 1.0, PHP script, apache and MySQL server.