Biometric patient identification has come to the Terrebonne General Medical Center in Louisiana. After an evaluation of multiple potential solutions, TGMC selected RightPatient as the provider of its new identity management system.

RightPatient’s solution uses iris recognition, letting hospital workers access medical records simply by taking a picture of a given patient. In addition to generally improving administrative efficiency by its ease of use, the system should help to reduce patient fraud and to prevent the creation of duplicate patient records. The system has been implemented to work with McKesson EHR, a prominent electronic health record system.

TGMC CEO called the implementation of the RightPatient system “an important step to raise patient safety standards at TGMC,” while RightPatient President Michael Trader explained that his company was able to work with TGMC staff “to tailor RightPatient for their McKesson EHR system workflows and seamlessly retrieve patient records after successful identifications, helping to increase patient safety and eliminate the risk of medical identity theft.