Emergency Search
Emergency Search is a special Imprivata PatientSecure function used only in emergency practice by an authorized user.
Emergency Search capability is an opt-in setting that can be applied to specific departments as deemed necessary.
How it works
When a patient is unconscious, incoherent, or otherwise unable to identify themself in an emergency situation, an authorized user can estimate the patient's age and sex and make an Emergency Search request.
Imprivata PatientSecure searches a candidate pool made up of patients aged ten years older and younger than the approximate age provided, filtering on sex.
Imprivata PatientSecure looks through all potential candidates in this pool for a matching palm scan. If a match is found, a successful match message is displayed and the matched patient is returned via the API result.
When to use it
Imprivata PatientSecure Emergency Search is a process-intensive, server-side search for a matching biometric. Because Emergency Search pulls in a larger pool of candidates from weaker demographics, searching for a matching palm scan takes significantly more time (several seconds) than a date of birth search on a large data set.
Imprivata recommends that Emergency Search be used only when critically needed, for example, if a patient cannot be identified by a name or date of birth due to unconsciousness or missing identification.
