It's a Phone, It's a Reader, It's a Healthcare Application

Just yesterday I was wondering out loud here how ordinary people were going to be able to read RFID tags. Obviously, Nokia has been reading this blog and stealing my best ideas. They've just announced they are putting their near field communications (NFC) radio frequency tagging technology in a mobile phone. Hey, somebody get my lawyer on the line...
Here's the deal: Based on a new short-range wireless specification, the NFC technology has been built into Nokia's 3220 mobile phone so that it can act as an RFID tag reader... Finnish home health care firm Allévo is using the phone along with software from Nedap N.V. to centrally register, update and store information on the patients it visits. Allévo will provide every patient with a chip card when they first sign up to the service. At each subsequent visit, a nurse touches the patient's chip card using the Nokia phone to register thus eliminating the need to fill in forms and allowing the care giver access to the latest patient data.
Say 'Ahhhhh!'