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

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 494-500

  Leonard, D C ^a   Pons, Alexander P ^b   Asfour, Shihab S ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief theory; Data fusion; Electronic medical record; Multilayer biometric

Indexed keywords

BELIEF THEORY; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFIERS; BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL FORMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORDS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL DATA; MULTI PHASE SYSTEMS; PAPER-BASED SYSTEM; PATIENT IDENTIFIERS; REAL-TIME ACCESS;

BIOMETRICS; DATA FUSION; DNA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; GENES; INFORMATION FUSION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MULTILAYERS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

HEALTH CARE;

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SECURITY; DERMATOGLYPHICS; HUMAN; IRIS; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; RETINA;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SECURITY; DERMATOGLYPHICS; DNA; HUMANS; IRIS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; RETINA;

EID: 67749102393     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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