Realization of a universal patient identifier for electronic medical records through biometric technology

Authors:
D. C. Leonard;Alexander P. Pons;Shihab S. Asfour
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL;Department of Computer Information Systems, School of Business, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL;Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on biomedical informatics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The technology exists for the migration of healthcare data from its archaic paper-based system to an electronic one, and, once in digital form, to be transported anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. The advent of universally accessible healthcare data has benefited all participants, but one of the outstanding problems that must be addressed is how the creation of a standardized nationwide electronic healthcare record system in the United Stateswould uniquely identify andmatch a composite of an individual's recorded healthcare information to an identified individual patients out of approximately 300 million people to a 1:1 match. To date, a few solutions to this problem have been proposed that are limited in their effectiveness.We propose the use of biometric technology within our fingerprint, iris, retina scan, and DNA (FIRD) framework, which is a multiphase system whose primary phase is a multilayer consisting of these four types of biometric identifiers: 1) fingerprint; 2) iris; 3) retina scan; and 4) DNA. In addition, it also consists of additional phases of integration, consolidation, and data discrepancy functions to solve the unique association of a patient to their medical data distinctively. This would allow a patient to have real-time access to all of their recorded healthcare information electronically whenever it is necessary, securely with minimal effort, greater effectiveness, and ease.