A PROPOSAL

ON
STUDENT MEDI-BIOMETRIC SYSTEM
(A CASE STUDY OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC ADO, HEALTH
CENTRE)

BY

ADEOJO ADESEWA
FPA/CS/21/3-0129

SUPERVISED BY
DR. (MRS.) B.I FALUYI

A PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

AND COMPUTER STUDIES,

IN PARTIAL FUFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE

AWARD OF HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA (HND) IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE

MARCH, 2023

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 INTRODUCTION

Medi-biometric refers to a website for doctors and patients for monitoring health

information. This includes access control, identification, registration, verification of patient

medical information (Shawl, 2022). Medical information must be automatically updated on

every time a patient suffers through medical treatment. During the time of emergency, it'd be

difficult for the physicians to understand the past health history of the victim to proceed with

further treatments. This project presents a health monitoring system where an individual

himself/herself can enter their own health and emergency information into our servers and it

is accessed by anyone using the biometric technology at the time of an emergency (Elissa,

2022).

The system would be implemented within the web based operating environment

which is that the most generally used accessible system everywhere the planet. This method

helps to stay track on the individual’s health information, henceforth giving the simplest way

for the physicians to access the knowledge during the time of emergency. This not only saves

the lifetime of the victim but also helps the physicians to figure comfortable (Elissa, 2022).

Student Biometric technology can add operational efficiencies to the healthcare

system that reduce costs, reduce fraud, and increases patient satisfaction by reducing medical

errors. Many hospitals and healthcare organizations are currently deploying biometric

security architecture. Secure identification is critical within the health care system, both to

manage logical access to centralized archives of digitized patient’s data, and to limit physical

access to buildings and hospital wards, and to authenticate medical and social support

personnel (Duquenoy, George and Kimppa, 2022).

1.1 Background of the Study

There have been massive innovations in healthcare sector over the past decade with

the aim of enhancing health care procedures, cost effectiveness as well as efficiency

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(Omachonu and Einsprunch, 2019). Information technology (IT) has played a vital role in

these innovations and has seen the emergence of biometric authentication systems in

healthcare. The application of biometric technology in healthcare has been mainly prompted

by security concerns, in the areas of medical schemes and patients‟ medical records

(“Biometrics in Healthcare”, 2019.).

Biometrics refers to a science involving statistical analysis of biological

characteristics (Zhang, 2020) and represents the measurement of physiological or behavioural

characteristic that is distinctive to an individual (Jain, Hong & Pankanti, 2020) such as face,

fingerprint, palm print, retinal scan, iris pattern, keystroke dynamics, signature, and voice

pattern. Biometrics is considered a definitive and superior method in authentication and

identification of individuals (Heracleous and Wirtz, 2019). A biometric authentication system

is a pattern recognition system that validates a person‟s identity by comparing captured

biometric data with an existing biometric template(s) stored in a database (Jain, Ross, and

Prabhakar, 2018).

Student biometrics technology has been surrounded by a number of technical, social

and legal issues which have impacted on its growth. Like most emerging technologies,

biometrics has been subjected to high performance expectations and some systems have

proven inadequate when assessed using a combination of factors such as; system error rates,

robustness, usability, user acceptance and security (Pato and Millett, 2021). The technical

performance in terms of accuracy and speed of recognition is key to successful

implementation of biometric systems (Jain et al, 2019). The fact that there is no biometric

system that is free of recognition errors has been a major challenge. Systems have failed due

to technical inefficiencies. For instance, a Malaysian border checkpoint biometric system

failed the speed test leading to lost business as tourists cancelled their visits (Homeland

Security News Wire, 2021). It is such performance failures that have led to resistance by

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number of potential users as the perceived and portrayed inadequacies may lead to adverse

effects on services delivery and to the entire business.

Regardless of the area and scope of application, the impact of biometric systems has

been noted to be diverse with both positive and negative outcomes (European Community,

2021). The impact of biometrics in service delivery relate to efficiency and convenience of

transactions, costs of and savings in service delivery, security and safety of individuals and

resources, and in customer satisfaction (Jain et al, 2019; Pato and Millett, 2021).

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Although commercial applications are emerging there are still concerns on biometric

system performance, especially in large-scale application (Chandra and Calderon, 2020).

While biometric technology is used in a variety of applications, questions remain regarding

the technical and operational effectiveness of biometric technologies.

However, it is argued that technological improvements have contributed in making

biometrics solutions more viable, less expensive and more accurate, leading to increased

acceptance by potential users (Coats et al, 2019). According to Heracleous and Wirtz (2019),

if the power of biometrics is exploited, it shall be the next technology after the Internet to

enable value and productivity enhancements. Heracleous and Wirtz, (2018) further suggest

that biometrics can offer significant security enhancements as well as other value-added

applications including improvement in service delivery.

Although a number of studies have been undertaken on different areas of biometrics

and healthcare service delivery, there is none that has been focused on the impact of

biometrics in healthcare service delivery. A survey by Abanti (2010) aimed at determining the

acceptability of biometric-based authentication system in a private university in Nigeria and

among his recommendations was further research to examine the effects of biometric

authentication systems on the efficiency and speed of existing hardware.

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 Due to the problems in patient monitoring, health information, authorization and

verification of patient and employee at healthcare centre, the proposed study shall introduce

biometric into the medical healthcare system where doctor can monitor the patient’s

information and also the entire healthcare could be secured using fingerprint techniques.

1.3 Aim and Objectives of the Study

The aim of this study is to develop a Medi-biometric healthcare system that would

authenticate the user the user into his personal account where he provides all the private

details and data of his medical records.

The specific objectives are:

a) To secured data storage and retrieval; it not only saves the lifetime of the victim but

also helps the physicians to figure comfortable.

b) In case of emergencies, the fingerprint may be scanned and also the details stored

within the database are retrieved.

c) To develop a web-based application that would allow doctors and patients for

monitoring health information and also secured their personal medical record.

1.4 Research Methodology

The method to be adopted for this proposed is critically explained. The system will

use waterfall model architecture to achieve the objectives, furthermore, the structural and

behavioural model of this study will be achieved by using Unified Modelling Language tool

(UML) such as Microsoft Visio, UMLPro. The system design model would be transformed to

coding using PHP programming language because of its versatility and its flexibility and the

medical record information of both the doctors and patients would be stored into the MySQL

database. The proposed system will use fingerprint to authenticate and verify the patient’s

information and open the accessibility page after a true login process. The complete system

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testing will be made after the completion of the system development before deployment to

the client’s machine/health centre.

1.5 Scope of the Study

The study will centre is focus on development of a secured Medi-biometric healthcare

system using Federal Polytechnic Ado, Health Centre as a study area. The system will cover

the authentication of a patients and doctors, patient records and doctors report. The proposed

system will not by any means cover the pharmacy, drug procurement and prescription of drug

1.6 Expected Contribution to Knowledge

After the development of this proposed project, the application will be able to

authenticate patient’s detail using biometric authentication technique. The medical biometric

for healthcare system will also save time to start out the treatment of a patient admitted at an

emergency. This protects time taken to finish all medical procedures so as to start out

operating the patient.