NFC eHealth

Sero Solutions works with all the stakeholders responsible for a service users care, to provide holistic, connected care technologies to ensure that care is provided in the most optimum manner possible.

The NFC eCare solution uses a technology called Near Field Communication (NFC). NFC enables electronic devices to communicate with each other by merely touching each other.

The NFC eHealth solution allows a care worker to monitor medication compliance and capture information from healthcare devices used in long term health conditions.

Medication compliance is one of the biggest issues in healthcare today. When a service user fails to take their medications, this often leads to a deterioration in health and the unwanted cost and complications of entry into a hospital environment. These issues can be avoided by a proactive system being put into place which monitor and prompt users to take their medications in a timely manner.

How the system works

Service users medication schedules are recorded on a central system. The central system contains the names of the medications and the times at which these medications should be taken.

The service user is issued with a electronic card called an Sero eHealth Adaptor. The adaptors contains a number of buttons which correspond to a service users medication schedule. Once a medication has been taken, the button on the adaptor responding to the medication is pressed. After this a NFC mobile device is touched against the card to record that the medication has been taken, by sending the information across a cellular network onto the central system.

Healthcare devices such as Glucose monitors are tagged with a NFC tag, after a user has taken their reading, they touch the tag with their NFC phone and are prompted to enter their reading from the healthcare device. This information is sent to a central monitoring system.