Health-Care IT. The Wall Street Journal. October 16, 2012.
A finger print technology to deal with the tremendous problem of tuberculosis drug adherence in India was the winner in the Health-Care IT category of the WSJ Technology Innovation Award. Combined with changes in drug accessibility and distribution, Operation ASHA, uses fingerprints to record the patients who picked up their medicines. Counselors are notified when patients did not pick up their medicines. Fingerprinting increased adherence to the complete drug program.
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