Reading Palms for Identification

HDM Breaking News, November 5, 2008

ValleyCare Health System in Pleasanton, Calif., is using vein authentication technology as part of its new patient registration and identification system. ValleyCare has two campuses with a total of 212 inpatient beds.

The PalmSecure technology, from Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., uses near-infrared light to capture a patient’s palm vein pattern. That generates a biometric template that is matched against a database of enrolled users’ palm vein patterns. The technology helps ensure clinicians access the appropriate electronic records from its hospital information system from Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, Pa.

More information is available at fujitsu.com.

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