You can just forget about pulling out your insurance cards or filling out forms. Well, not quiet yet. However, New York University's Langone Medical Center has introduced a new way for patient check-ins. It's purpose is to speed up patient check-ins and reduce hospital errors, which I read that with our current system, there are about 98,000 deaths a year because of it. Absolutely outrageous. These scanners are made from the famous company Fujitsu and apparently, a person's palm-vein lattice vary with each person, just like fingerprints and irises. Is it secure? We definitely have to worry about security and identity-theft these days. But according technology testing, these scanners had a false rejection rate of 0.01% which is quite impressive. Of course, nothing is PERFECT, correct?
I guess people just keep finding new ways to speed up processes and make things easier for the rest of us. This is of great use I think, but just like with robots, what purpose will humans be serving? Will we be unintelligent, overweight people who sit around all day every day, like the people in the movie Wall-E. I definitely don't want to get there, but at the rate we're going, it seems that Disney/Pixar may have predicted the future of the useful-ness of humans.
source: Fujitsu- Vein Scanner
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