Case Study 2 – Absolute Protection
Identify patients whose lives depend on absolute assurance. See how we stop potentially fatal medications reaching the wrong hands.
Iris recognition has been used for the identification of patients whose lives depend on absolute identification for the dispensing of potentially fatal medications. When time is of the essence, misidentification can and tragically has, led to preventable deaths.
The Problem
The State Coroner of Victoria recognized that patients were manually being identified in medical facilities. When an error occurred, the patient might receive a dosage suited for another patient but which might be lethal for them.
The Solution
Iris recognition technology was married to a laboratory grade pump and a third party patient record system. When correctly identified by the iris system, the patient would receive an automatically dispensed measure of medication suited and prescribed to them.
The Results
The results were dramatic – no patient deaths have been recorded by any application of iris recognition to this problem.
Other benefits include:
- Improved throughput of patients, given the speed of identification.
- Increased time the medical practitioner had to engage with their patient since they were not distracted by the manual identification process.
- Patients didn’t have to carry identification documents and experienced lower waiting times for medication to be dispensed.
- Eliminated threat of misadventure, based on misidentification.
