Biometrics and identity management in healthcare applications

The long term objective of this research is to provide a model for the delivery of identity management services to a diverse range of healthcare applications. . This is a challenge, due to various regulations and requirements that are unique to the healthcare system. Healthcare applications require a strong form of authentication, which goes beyond the capabilities of passwords, based on what you remember, and tokens, based on what you have. Healthcare applications are now considering biometrics as a potential authentication methodology. Biometrics is the automated recognition of humans based on biological and behavioral traits, like fingerprint recognition etc. This research proposes the development of an identity management model and in doing so provides the healthcare system with knowledge about the efficacy of biometrics in various healthcare applications.