Challenges of Challenges of Deploying RFID Technology for Reducing Medical Identity Theft

The healthcare industry is the biggest user of RFID technology due to its mobility in delivering data, tracking and surveillance of every individual, pathology tests, medications and the management of patient data. Because this technology is so vital within the healthcare/hospital environment this paper investigates and analyses the challenges as well as the issues facing RFID technology in implementing and providing security in guarding against the occurrences of medical identity theft. This form of identity theft is life threating as it adds medical data to a patients file who didn’t receive treatment for whatever conditions the imposter obtained as a result of their criminal activity. In preventing medical identity theft requires specific proposals from a policy, social and technological perspective.C