{"id":716,"date":"2011-03-23T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=716"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:48:26","slug":"the-healthcare-industry-bids-adieu-to-inaccurate-patient-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/patient-identification\/the-healthcare-industry-bids-adieu-to-inaccurate-patient-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healthcare Industry Bids Adieu To Inaccurate Patient Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starbug\/304092308\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Waving Goodbye\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/117\/304092308_60280068b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>Today, M2SYS Technology released <strong><a title=\"RightPatient\" href=\"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/rightpatient-biometric-patient-identification.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RightPatient<\/a><\/strong>\u2122 the newest biometric identification platform that increases patient safety, lowers healthcare liability and stops medical identity theft.\u00a0 You can read more about the technology in our Press Release which you can find here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/rightpatient-healthcare-biometrics-patient-identification-pr.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/rightpatient-healthcare-biometrics-patient-identification-pr.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite radical advances in healthcare technology over the past decade, the industry continues to suffer as <strong>billions of dollars are siphoned away<\/strong>, liabilities skyrocket, medical identity theft grows and patient health is jeopardized by health care fraud.\u00a0 Medical identity theft dominates all forms of health care fraud and continues to be the biggest fly in the health care soup, with patient identification hovering as one of the top concerns for health care professionals. \u00a0It\u2019s no surprise then that <a title=\"accurate patient identification has been number one on the list\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jointcommission.org\/assets\/1\/6\/2011_HAP_NPSG_EASYTOREAD_docs_112-29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>accurate <\/strong><strong>patient identification has been number one on the list<\/strong><\/a> of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations&#8217; (JCAHO) Hospital National Patient Safety Goals since 1993. The medical field is increasingly recognizing that patient misidentification is a common, potentially deadly and largely preventable error.<\/p>\n<p>RightPatient\u2122 answers the call and aims to help save the healthcare industry over $70 billion annually by effectively preventing patient fraud and misidentification.\u00a0 It instantly interfaces with any EHR\/EMR or patient management software allowing healthcare facilities to implement a scalable 1:N matching system with the ability to match millions of biometric templates per second.\u00a0 The system can be off to the races within 24 hours and M2SYS already has a number of custom interfaces developed for several popular EHR\/EMR systems.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit our <strong><a title=\"M2SYS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web site<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about RightPatient\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been experiencing problems that result from misidentification of medical patients?\u00a0 Could a free trial of RightPatient\u2122 help you to understand how biometric identification can work for you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, M2SYS Technology released RightPatient\u2122 the newest biometric identification platform that increases patient safety, lowers healthcare liability and stops medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[17,29,6,107,46,22,105,11,106],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-identification","tag-biometric-systems","tag-biometric-technology","tag-biometrics","tag-eliminate-patient-fraud","tag-fingerprint-reader","tag-fingerprint-recognition","tag-heath-care-biometrics","tag-palm-vein","tag-patient-identificaiton"],"acf":{"_how_to_content":"","_faq_content":"","_structured_meta_data":"","_tl_dr_content":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.6.1 - 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