BioLink enhances another medical application with its fingerprint biometrics
Released on = October 17, 2006, 11:46 pm
Press Release Author = Natalia Voronina
Industry = Software
Press Release Summary = BioLink Solutions announces implementation of its
fingerprint biometrics in Clinical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia. From now on, users of
a medical information center Thorax.6 implemented in this hospital are being
identified with their fingerprints when logging on to this Internet-based system.
Press Release Body = Thorax.6 is an Internet application, designed in an ASP.NET
environment and accessed by users via Internet Explorer on the HTTPS protocol. Users
of the application are: doctors accessing their personal computers, organizers and
desk computers in medical rooms; nurse personnel (nurses, physiotherapists)
accessing the application via the computer in medical rooms of each department;
office personnel accessing Thorax from their personal computers installed in their
offices.
For this medical project, BioLink Solutions delivered its software development kit
for the Web and biometric scanners BioLink U-Match Matchbook. Based on the provided
kit, the clinical center itself developed a customized application allowing for
biometric identification of Thorax users.
The custom development is now in its pilot phase and used mainly for testing
purposes. It involves installation of the software and biometric equipment on all
workstations of one clinic department, namely the Department of thoracic surgery.
The Clinical Centre Ljubljana is planning to expand the project to a number of
departments that are much interested in implementing biometrics, and enhance the
biometric functionality to reliably identify medical personnel signing diagnoses and
other medical records. They will also expand the use of biometrics to all other
parts of the computer database – not only to the information system Thorax.6, the
final objective of which is paperless hospital expected to be reached by the end of
2007. Clinical Centre Ljubljana has over 2000 beds and over 6000 employees,
including over 500 medical staff.
The feedback of Thorax users towards the BioLink offering is quite positive, because
it strongly simplifies and quickens the procedure of accessing the application.
Because biometrics is less intruding and more user-friendly, employees are eager to
use it. The whole system is much safer and the overall security is much stronger.
Fingerprint authentication based on the BioLink solution has operated perfectly all
the time, only a few minor adjustments of the FAR/FRR settings had to be made.
About BioLink
BioLink, a leading provider of biometric identification solutions, develops,
manufactures, and markets advanced fingerprint biometric products. The Company’s
goods and services form the core of biometric identification and authentication
solutions for all scales of civil identification, access control and information
security applications. BioLink’s solutions provide the lowest total cost of
ownership in the industry and are being implemented by corporate and government
entities worldwide. For additional information, please visit BioLink’s web site at
http://www.biolinksolutions.com.
2009
