RFID and healthcare

This is an increasingly active area of research - particularly for tracking of patients and high value items around hospitals - It is left to the reader to determine whether patients are themselves high-value items..
In the community and primary health care arean, more attention has been focussed on tracking drugs in particulr for identifying conterfiets drugs - the FDA has a current study round in this area
http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/counterfeit/rfid_cpg.html . Other work in our lab involves the use of RFID for tracking and analysing behaviour.