Patients Are Often Misidentified And Given The Wrong Care In Hospitals. Could Biometric Technology Help?

It is not uncommon for patients to share the same name and birthday, which can get confusing for traditional record-keeping systems. But technology that relies on things like fingerprints or other physical characteristics could hold the key to eliminating some of the mistakes can result from those mix-ups. In other health technology news: the challenges of telemedicine, virtual reality and childbirth, and electronic health records.

from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2GjDNuD