A Glance into Healthcare Innovation: Facial Biometrics for Accurate Patient Identification

The moment a patient walks into a hospital and checks in for an appointment is the moment their care journey begins. Ensuring that patient is accurately and efficiently identified is critical to ensuring they receive the appropriate care and have a good experience at the hospital. Yet, while accurate identification may seem simple, it relies on manual identifying information like addresses and birthdates – which can be difficult to rely on when hospitals see hundreds of thousands of patients every year. And to make things worse, the implications of misidentification can be deadly.

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