Shamane Mills of WPR reports:
Hospitals in New York and San Diego are using hand scans to identify patients. Now a Wisconsin hospital is too.
Patients with the same name even the same birthday are rare but it’s one of things that a new system at UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison is designed to sort out. It’s starting a database of hand scans to identify people through the vein patterns in their palms.
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Some people have refused to have their palms scanned.
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