Healthcare Electronic Medical record systems
Issues hindering EHR
The goal of patient information privacy conflicts with the goal of improved healthcare that can be achieved with EMRs. Provisions in HIPAA provide some confidentiality protection, but not enough. A major possible privacy breach lies within the system of primary or secondary users.
What privacy and security issues are hindering the adoption of EHR?
Biometric Authentication
Biometric authentication is the verification of a user's identity by means of a physical trait or behavioral characteristic that can't easily be tracked and validated. Biometric authentication has increasingly become one of the main measures used by healthcare facilities to protect patient records and ensure medical services are provided in safe manner.
How is biometric authentication more secure compared to other authentication methods like text passwords, tokens, smartcards, etc.? What special challenges does biometric authentication pose?