Online Patient Data Verification for Health Care Providers
The trend of telemedicine is rising in the aftermath of Covid-19, it can provide health services remotely but patient data verification and security are essential for this.
As the global pandemic hits the world in 2019 and the situation worsens as time passes. This swifts the health sector to adopt the more automated ways that can be applied through social distancing protocols. There was double responsibility for health to minimize the spread of the virus and give the best health services at the time.
Trend of Telemedicine
It was the need of the hour during Co-vid19 when there were Covid-19 restrictions about minimum movement and physical interaction. E-health and M-health surge in Covid-19 outbreak. They were complying with all the Covid-19 measures and also prescribing medicine to the patients at the time.
The best example of e-health is that now people can make their diet plan from websites, there is no need of visiting a nutritionist physically. E-health is also used for giving prescriptions to patients remotely.
M-health is one step further, this can also include a voice call between patient and doctor. The most recent use of m-health is through mobile apps. Today users have their full diet and exercise plan on mobile phones. Smartphones can calculate how many calories have burned and how long has the person walked.
Now the Covid-19 restrictions have eased, but the health sector does not want to limit its advanced program of telemedicine. But there is also a problem with telemedicine i.e. patient data identification. When there is a physical treatment, the medical staff can verify the identity of the patient but when it comes to voice or video calls the identification of the patient is a tough task.
Patient Data Verification
Financial institutions are verifying their customers for a long time because there is a risk of fraud in it. Financial institutions deal with daily to daily financial transaction processing and perform the Know Your Customer verification on every customer. But this term is used as Know Your Patient in the health industry. This term shouldn’t surprise anyone because the World Bank has stated that patient data is meaningful when using telemedicine for treatment. It will draw new models of patient identification policy and health services providers. An automated patient data verification solution can elevate health services quality and will set new benchmarks for healthcare management. Moreover, it will assist in patient record maintaining, reduce medical frauds, and secure patients’ data.
Know Your Patient Verification
It is a process in which the patients are verified smoothly and remotely. The patient data verification is done in seconds and the process is described below:
- The image of an ID document is uploaded
- A Live selfie of the patient is captured
- Identity checks are performed
- Data on the document is analyzed and verified
Regrettably, some healthcare service providers are not using this service and still maintaining patient data on papers. But this system needs to be upgraded to comply with modern customer demands.
Patient data verification streamlines the health management process will simplify the health-providing methods.
Benefits of Patient Data Verification
Fast Data Retrieval
As the patient data is stored in a cloud database which is a centralized method for data retrieval. It means that the patient data can be retrieved at any time. If the patient shifts to another healthcare provider, they can also demand the full medical history of that patient.
As patient medical history is significant in prescribing new medicine to him. If the doctor does not have the history of the patient it can lead to wrong medicine prescriptions. Like the doctor can know whether a patient has some kind of allergy or not.
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