Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care will implement Imprivata PatientSecure in its four university hospitals and 11 community clinics.
Through Imprivata PatientSecure, patients use palm-vein biometrics when they arrive at hospital registration. Their medical record is then identified, preventing misidentification errors within the hospital.
"Imprivata enables us to positively identify patients across our health system with a biometric identifier and automatically access their correct medical record," said University of Utah Health Care CIO Jim Turnbull in a statement. "This enables clinicians to have an accurate medical history of the patient they are treating and also protects our patients from medical identity theft and insurance fraud."