A review of authentication protocols for rfid security on smart healthcare

Patient safety is a top priority in the medical tasks where patient identification is one of the important things in the process of anesthesia and surgery. Errors in identifying patients can be fatal to the patient's safety. Such identification of patients that still use traditional methods is very susceptible to causing medical faults. To overcome the weaknesses of such traditional identification, researchers have used Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to automatically identify patients. With RFID technology, automatic identification can be done without having to make physical contact with the patient. However, RFID technology still has flaws, including the absence of a protection mechanism for RFID security. This paper presents the results of a literature study on authentication protocols for the security of RFID implementation for smart healthcare.