For Finger Scan’s, an economical hardware is readily available and an algorithm to match with the saved finger print data making it a good tool for authentications.
Most of the Picture Archival / Patient Information servers carrying a patient database use name/numbers as key for searching patient info.
The method of Querying of Patient Medical / Diagnostic data using biometrics can be very efficiently used if the entire hospitals have a common network to query from.
By the time I was struck with the idea of using the biometric finger scan as an identifier for searching patient info it was too late as it is completely and comprehensively covered under U.S. Pat. No. 20060293925 by Dr. Leonard Flom in the year 2006.
The patent covers an idea of a System for storing medical records accessed using patient biometrics. The Abstract is as follows: A system for viewing and updating medical records using patient biometrics including at least one biometrics database including a plurality of biometric identifiers, at least one records database including a plurality of medical data records, at least one biometrics reader for receiving two or more biometric identifiers from a patient, a central records processor, software executing on the processor for querying the at least one biometrics database to verify the two or more biometric identifiers, and software executing on the processor for retrieving a medical data record corresponding to the two or more biometric identifiers from the at least one records database.
I am currently working on two of the ideas as a hobby project for open source and non-commercial use and definitely without violating the USPTOs United States patent law for U.S. Pat. No. 20060293925
- In Picture Archival / Patient Information servers resolving patient biometrics into DICOM identifier enabling querying using patient biometrics
- Adding patient biometrics tag in DICOM set
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