Biometrics in healthcare as a technological contribution to mitigate patient identification errors: A Review

Biometrics are becoming essential and have been recommended as a technological method for identification due to its ability to provide unique verification of a person. Biometrics use physiological characteristics of the human’s body which were chosen because they usually do not change over a lifetime and cannot be duplicated or forgotten. Different biometrics technologies have proven to be applicable to solve the problems of duplicated patients’ records and assure a correct identity. This research would make contribution in relation to solutions for patient identification methods within the healthcare sector, by expanding the knowledge base of biometric technology as an identification system that have been used in healthcare sector worldwide. Also, pointing out the patient misidentification issue within hospitals. The research may have influence on the awareness to the importance of proper identification and to the biometric use in the healthcare sector.