Add biometric patient & visitor identification to your hospital safety checklist

Hospital safety checklist is prioritized nowadays, but the question remains, is it enough? Are all measures taken to restrict intruders? Needless to say, hospitals require safety and security measures strongly. Despite having so many patients and so much medical data, security concerns are lower at any hospital, which makes it an easy target for possible data breach and or threat to the patients and staffs.

With so many people going in and out all the time it is quite impossible to properly check everyone all the time. In case of an emergency check the patient or the accompanying person cannot be questioned and for obvious reasons. During patient visiting hours, many people come in to visit. All these visitors are let pass without proper identification and registration. Also to properly security check every visitor, it will take a lot of time and people will take it as extra harassment. However, all these factors could pose a serious threat to the hospital and people associated with it. Many hospitals faced some serious issues regarding this.

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False reject rate is a statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the verification task and it usually calculated as the percentage of times the system produces a false reject. A false reject occurs when an individual is not matched to their own existing biometric template. For example: John claims to be John, but the system incorrectly denies the verification. This can be particularly frustrating for an end user who knows that they are enrolled in the system and should be recognized and verified, but for some reason the system is incorrectly rejecting their scan. This can cause unnecessary logjams, affect service, frustrate staff and negatively impact productivity.

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