Acquire Patient Fingerprints

Obtaining fingerprint data allows your patients to sign into your Patient Tracker system.

Important: This feature does not store actual fingerprints. Ten data points or markers are stored that enable the fingerprint matching. Except for during the initial fingerprint acquisition process when fingerprints are shown on the screen, fingerprints cannot be viewed, printed, or reconstructed in any way from the stored data.

Get Started

• Install fingerprint sensors - Install fingerprint sensors at your workstations so that your office staff can simply touch the sensor to log into Edge, and to clock in and clock out of your timeclock. In addition, patients can use fingerprint sensors at your Patient Sign-In station. See "Install Fingerprint Sensors" for details.

How to Get Here

• Patient folder > Patient Information Panel > Edit.

   

  Open a patient folder, and expand the Patient Information Panel. Then click Edit.

  

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• You can also obtain fingerprint data while creating a new patient folder.

Setup

• Acquire fingerprint - If no previous fingerprint file is found for this patient, click Add; if a fingerprint is already stored, click Replace.

   

  

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  A graphic of the fingerprint appears in the first section of the Acquire Fingerprint screen.  Repeat three more times: The system uses all four samples to create the file. Note the Quality notation below the fingerprint samples. Samples that are not of good quality must be redone.  

   

  

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• Register files - Click Register when four good samples have been acquired, then click Yes to verify the fingerprint data.

• Test match - Ask the user to touch the sensor once more. You should see a screen indicating that the fingerprint matched.

• Confirm fingerprint registration - Before exiting, you are given the opportunity to change/overwrite the stored fingerprint if needed.  This allows you to re-register existing fingerprint samples when necessary.

Now, the patient can log into your system by pressing the fingerprint sensor installed at that workstation.  Anyone without registered fingerprint data attempting to log on using the sensor pad will see a No Fingerprint Found on File message.

Notice!

• How to use the fingerprint reader - Always use the right index finger to acquire fingerprints or to log into your system. Press the sensor briefly and lift. Do not roll the finger on the sensor, and do not touch the sensor while the progress bar is running. (Click below for a graphical version of these instructions.)

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