Fujitsu Frontech North America, a supplier of biometric products and services, has announced that Missouri-based Bates County Memorial Hospital has successfully incorporated Fujitsu’s PalmSecure vascular scanner into their time and attendance tracking system.
The hospital already had a biometric time and attendance solution in place that utilized fingerprints rather than palm vein scans.
The switch was made due to concerns over hygiene as well as improvements in the security of the authentication. PalmSecure is a more hygienic solution due to its contactless capabilities wherein a picture is taken of a user’s palm via near-infrared light and doesn’t require any contact with a machine.
With a fingerprint solution, however, hospital personnel were required to push their unprotected finger onto a scanning plate that every other hospital employee had previously used in the same fashion. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/thirdfactor-4.gif)
