NFC-Based Digital Health Record System for Clinic Management

Modern healthcare management is undergoing a significant transition from paper-based documentation to digital ecosystems to meet the growing demands of efficiency and data integrity. This paper introduces an innovative, non-invasive digital health record framework titled "MediTap". The conventional record-keeping paradigm in small to mid-sized clinics often suffers from severe data fragmentation, physical degradation of documents, and critical delays in accessing patient history during emergency triage. The proposed system utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to establish a seamless, "tap-and-go" interface for instantaneous access to medical records stored in a secure cloud architecture. Developed using the Flutter mobile framework and Firebase Cloud Firestore, the system empowers healthcare professionals to retrieve patient biographies, update medication prescriptions, and manage diagnostic reports with a single physical interaction. A prototype was evaluated at Pimpri Chinchwad Polytechnic, demonstrating that the NFC-integrated approach significantly reduces administrative overhead and patient check-in latency compared to traditional manual or software-search systems.