From the Wall Street Journal Health Blog:
The fight against painkiller abuse is going high-tech in southern Ohio, where local health officials areadopting biometric tools similar to those used by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starting this week, patients must submit to a fingerprint scan to see a doctor at one hospital system. At several pharmacies, patients must use fingerprint IDs to get their prescriptions filled.
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