December 3, 2013 – by Peter B. Counter
Biometrics have been helping the healthcare verticals in many ways, but patient tracking is the most visibly beneficial to clinics and facilities all over the world. Medical fraud is a plague enabled by unaccountable record keeping either enabled by criminals using forged documents or the lack of those documents all together. Biometric solutions attack this problem head on: when enrolling a patient into a system and tying her record to her biometrics, it can be assured the she and only she is receiving the medical attention she needs with up to date records, regardless of language barriers or lack of paper documents.
Generally this is done with a single biometric, but M2SYS is set on changing that with its RightPatient solution. RightPatient is a multi-factor patient identification platform that matches medical records with their corresponding visitors via iris recognition.
Today M2SYS announced that Martin Health System has deployed this solution in its two Florida hospitals, where the company is trying to reduce not only fraud, but also other industry evils such as duplicate patient records and billing errors.
Assistant VP of revenue cycle management for Martin Health System, Carlo Plato, expands: “The risks associated with misidentification jeopardize patient safety, so we wanted a solution that would mitigate these risks and add another layer of protection. RightPatient was a perfect fit for us because it doesn’t require physical contact, seamlessly communicates with our electronic health records software, and runs flawlessly over Citrix. Patients simply have their photo captured, the system matches their iris templates, and their medical record is automatically retrieved.”
Iris technology is ideal for this kind of deployment in which hygiene is of the utmost importance. Iris scanning is contactless, so when the platform scans the patient in order to match her with the corresponding medical record, there is no risk of germ spreading. Add this to the cost and care benefits associated with fraud prevention and more accurate records and it’s no wonder biometrics are continuing to enter healthcare spaces all over the world.
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