In the healthcare sector, biometrics typically pertain to patient identification and user access control. Biometrics are also used to detect fraud and protect the information of patients enrolled in clinical studies. Healthcare insurers in the United States suffer a high level of fraud and manipulation of facts in order to claim as paid benefits. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), fraudulent billing to public and private health care programs accounted for 3-10% of overall healthcare spending in 2015. According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, an anti-fraud monitoring group, Medicare fraud costs the United States around US$ 80 billion each year.
Healthcare biometrics is an ideal solution for data security and fraudulent claims, and it has the potential to save the government and healthcare insurers billions of dollars. Secure patient identification is critical for controlling logical access to centralized archives of digitized patients' data, as well as limiting physical access to hospital wards and buildings and authenticating medical professionals.
The Global Healthcare Biometrics Market is segmented by Application (Logical Access Control, Transaction Authentication, and Physical Access Control), Technology (Face Recognition, Iris Recognition, Hand Recognition, Voice Recognition, Fingerprint Recognition, Vein Recognition, and Signature Recognition), End-user (Hospitals, Clinics, Clinical Laboratories, and Healthcare Institutions), and Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa) (2019 – 2027). Increased product releases are likely to contribute to the growth of the global healthcare biometric market. For example, Fujitsu America announced a cloud-based Biometrics-as-a-Service (BIOaaS) solution in September 2018, allowing enterprises to manage increasingly complex data security issues. Fujitsu America introduced the MedClick Technology in March 2018, a cloud-based platform that promotes connection between healthcare practitioners and patients. The Biometrics-as-a-Service (BIOaaS) platform protects the MedClick application.