ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a triage system using radio frequency identification device (RFID) and mobile devices with a wireless network. It explores its advantages through an experiment assuming an incident of massive injured people. Most of the RFID tags are passive, which means the power is supplied through radio frequency communication from external readers. The chapter shows a realistic solution for the challenges by specializing the network usage in a way that only particular paths are used in particular stages of the workflow by analyzing the workflow and exploiting RFID tags to slim down the possible paths. It describes triage and challenges for pervasive computing, and discusses the RFID triage system. Triage is captured as an application that requires immediate improvement in the field of emergency medicine and is realized as one of the important applications in pervasive computing. A variety of information systems can be considered to be useful to support triage, such as wireless and mobile telemedicine systems.
