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Patient identification system

  • US 5,381,487 A
  • Filed: 09/18/1991
  • Issued: 01/10/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A patient identification method for confirming the identity of an individual to receive a treatment with the patient for whom said treatment is intended, which method comprises the following sequence of steps:

  • a. obtaining a live print identification characteristic of the patient;

    b. storing data representative of said characteristic in an electronic data storage device;

    c. after said data is stored, obtaining at a treatment location a live print identification characteristic directly from said individual to receive a treatment;

    d. comparing said data representative of the print identification characteristic obtained from the patient with data representative of the live print identification characteristic obtained at said treatment location from the individual to receive a treatment; and

    if identity is confirmed by said comparing of data, producing at said treatment location a patient identification device comprising a dimensionally stable base member having affixed thereto identification information of the patient for whom said treatment is intended.

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