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uPrint – Ensuring Delivery with Fingerprint Authentication

finger print logger

About uPrint

(Developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, India, Operation ASHA, and the Prajnopaya Foundation.)

Fingerprint identification establishes with a high degree of confidence that patients received their drugs from providers. While readers tend to be expensive, they are affordable in, e.g., urban settings where a single provider may serve, on the order of, a hundred patients a year.

How It Works

The solution consists of a fingerprint reader attached to a processing device, like a netbook or a cell phone, running custom software. Prints are recorded by impressing the finger on a reader. The system then searches a database of previously registered patient and personnel prints to identify and authenticate the user. Each provider is equipped with a unit, and patients and providers register their prints to establish the meeting.

Progress

A prototype has undergone an initial round of user testing and feedback in slum communities in Delhi served by Operation ASHA, a TB treatment NGO. A pilot program is scheduled after another round of software refinement, including integration with the IIH electronic medical record system.