Unique patient identification allows hospitals and Healthcare providers to instantly retrieve a patient’s medical record following a fast biometric scan. Using PrintScan for patient’s fingerprint capture enables healthcare providers to immediately identify, verify and authenticate patients and thus preventing duplicate medical records, eliminate fraud, increase patient data integrity while improving patient safety systems and patient identity management along the continuum of care.
By utilizing Biometric-based Patient Identification Systems, the risk of creating duplicate health record for patients is mitigated. The primary benefit of implementing a Patient Healthcare ID solution, healthcare providers are assured that the possibility of overlooking critical medical data needed for proper treatment is totally eliminated.
Additionally, Biometric ID are great solutions for the cases where an imposter fraudulently misrepresent his or herself and claim the identity of others in an attempt to receive healthcare without payment.
Securing medication cabinets through biometric access can provide accurate accountability for inventory. This process will help healthcare providers to reduce inventory (medication/narcotics) loss or theft.
The first step is patient biometric enrollment. During this step, patient’s fingerprint biometric data is collected. Prior to adding new enrollment record into the biometric database, the existing biometric database is searched for a pre-existing record to prevent a duplicate enrollment. Additionally, the fingerprint quality is assessed prior to conducting the fingerprint matching process. If no duplicates are found, the patient’s fingerprint record and other associated data are stored in the biometric system.
When a patient enters a medical facility, a fingerprint search using patient’s biometric data is conducted to locate the corresponding patient’s identity in the master patient database. This biometric search determines if a record exists for that particular patient.
If the patient is already registered, medical staff can access existing healthcare data and immediately provide quality care. Using patient’s fingerprint biometrics is particularly useful when patients are unable to communicate with medical staff to assert their identity.
Insurance Fraud can be controlled by integrating the Patient Biometric Identification with Health Insurance databases.
To achieve a seamless integration between Healthcare and Health Insurance providers, a middleware is designed to support the interface between the two systems databases.
To verify patient’s insurance coverage, the system sends out a query to the insurance database. Depending on the results of the query received form the insurance database, medical providers with take the appropriate course of action.
