ID-POD – Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
Hospitals and healthcare facilities need to accurately verify patients ID to protect them from medical identity theft and insurance fraud, as well as to optimize lengthy outpatient registration processes. Furthermore, HIPAA compliance mandates incorporation of minimum two factor authentication for authorized employees to access protected health information. Basic password management no longer satisfies this requirement, since passwords can be shared among employees for convenience.
Palm vein authentication can be used to secure access to patient data. Using ID-POD ™ , doctors, nurses, and other hospital employees register their palm vein data to the smartcard. To access a patient’s electronic medical chart, they simply insert their smartcard and place their palm over the ID-POD ™ sensor, which is attached to the PC. The biometric sensor converts the palm vein image into a digital record that is associated with a patient’s medical records. Only doctors and other personnel authorized to treat a given patient can access that patient’s records.
ID-POD ™ can also be used to protect patients from medical identity theft and insurance fraud, and ensures that the proper medical care is given to the right person. Positive identification enables the healthcare facility to quickly verify eligibility before any medical services are provided. As such, the risks of medical negligence and malpractice lawsuits are also significantly reduced, allowing the healthcare facility to benefit from lowered insurance costs.
In the medical environment there is a strong demand for hygienic biometric devices. ID-POD ™ meets this need by being a non-contact device. It can be used to secure access to patient data or to restrict access to specific laboratories, operating rooms, etc. to authorized personnel only. Doctors can log into the system in sterile areas without having to remove their gloves.
An additional benefit of using ID-POD ™ is that it relieves the burden on IT departments of medical facilities, which find it difficult to provide technical support 24/7, most of which is associated with password resetting and reissuing.