SHAPE Card - Privacy
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Identification, Authentication and Authorization - the Three Pillars of Privacy

The SHAPE Card provides three pillars of Encryption, and assures that a unique individual has one identity.

• Identification - The identity of a network participant is biometrically verified matching their actual fingerprint to the fingerprint encrypted on their Identity Smart Token.
• Authentication - After identification of both the individual and the provider, the platform authenticates individuals' access to particular information.
• Authorization - Finally, the platform authorizes individual's access to information.

Providers of Healthcare

• SHAPE provides absolute accuracy of each individual's identity.
• SHAPE uses biometrics to identify and authenticate a person based on physiological characteristics, ensuring they are the patient for whom the service or treatment is intended.
• SHAPE enables care for your patients in an environment of mutual trust via accurate identification.
• SHAPE enables a patient to electronically "check in" informing reception and the provider of health care of his/her arrival.
• SHAPE electronically captures a patient's demographic information ensuring accurate front end information on claims.
• SHAPE uses biometrics to eliminate potential for error in translating information, unlike errors that can occur with barcodes or radio tag identifiers.
• SHAPE offers cost savings by preventing costly litigation resulting from errors in patient care.
• SHAPE can reduce malpractice insurance premiums (risk and liability reduction).
• SHAPE improves case management.
• SHAPE improves clinical operations.
• SHAPE creates a culture of patient safety and mutual trust.
• SHAPE encourages each patient's active involvement in his/her own care as a patient-driven safety strategy.

Payors

• SHAPE matches patients with their care through identification, authentication and authorization of each person, improving patient safety and reducing care costs.
• SHAPE uses a secure, automated method to reliably identify a person based on physiological characteristics, ensuring that the patient and the service or treatments match.
• SHAPE electronically captures a patient's demographic information ensuring accurate front end information on claims.
• SHAPE uses Biometrics to eliminate potential for error in translating information unlike errors that can occur with barcodes or radio tag identifiers.
• SHAPE may provide cost savings by preventing costly litigation resulting from errors in patient care.
• SHAPE improves case management.
• SHAPE improves clinical operations.
• SHAPE creates a culture of patient safety and trust between patients, providers of health care and payers.
• SHAPE encourages each patient's active involvement in his/her own care as a patient-driven safety strategy.
• SHAPE dramatically reduces instances of fraudulent claims due to false identification.
• SHAPE offers efficiency as well as cost effectiveness via matching each patient with his/her care.

Individuals

• SHAPE uses a secure automated method using Biometrics to identify, and then authenticate you and only you based on your own individual physiological characteristics.
• SHAPE gives you the power to identify yourself absolutely, and carry that power from physician to each provider of health care to pharmacist to insurer to home.
• SHAPE eliminates identity errors that can result in potentially dangerous misdirected care and potentially costly misdirected claims/charges.
• SHAPE informs reception and your provider of health care of your arrival.
• SHAPE enables you to securely access records that can be held electronically and made available online.
• SHAPE is a positive step toward taking control of your own healthcare safety.