Advances in biometric technology could expand healthcare coverage in Africa

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• Release on :2017-07-10

Advances in biometric technology are on the horizon which could be critical to the delivery of health services to many Africans, an informational session dedicated to healthcare at last month’s ID4Africa 2017 in Windhoek, Namibia heard from a panel of experts.
Advances in fingerprinting which allow enrollment of children and even infants, biometrics capabilities in mobile devices, and open database systems are needed for a greater range of health services to be delivered to a greater number of people.
ID4Africa’s vision of legal identity for all in Africa as a driver for social and economic development takes in not just identity registration but service delivery as part of that development. Increasingly, that service delivery is being facilitated by biometrically established identity.