Mordini Emilio, Ottolini Corinna
Centro per la Scienza, la Società e la Cittadinanza, Via Sistina 37, 00187 Rome, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2007;43(1):51-60.
Identity is important when it is weak. This apparent paradox is the core of the current debate on identity. Traditionally, verification of identity has been based upon authentication of attributed and biographical characteristics. After small scale societies and large scale, industrial societies, globalization represents the third period of personal identification. The human body lies at the heart of all strategies for identity management. The tension between human body and personal identity is critical in the health care sector. The health care sector is second only to the financial sector in term of the number of biometric users. Many hospitals and healthcare organizations are in progress to deploy biometric security architecture. Secure identification is critical in the health care system, both to control logic access to centralized archives of digitized patients' data, and to limit physical access to buildings and hospital wards, and to authenticate medical and social support personnel. There is also an increasing need to identify patients with a high degree of certainty. Finally there is the risk that biometric authentication devices can significantly reveal any health information. All these issues require a careful ethical and political scrutiny.
身份认同在其薄弱时至关重要。这一明显的悖论是当前身份认同辩论的核心。传统上，身份验证基于对赋予的和传记性特征的认证。继小规模社会和大规模工业社会之后，全球化代表了个人身份识别的第三个阶段。人体是所有身份管理策略的核心。人体与个人身份之间的紧张关系在医疗保健领域至关重要。就生物识别用户数量而言，医疗保健领域仅次于金融领域。许多医院和医疗保健组织正在部署生物识别安全架构。安全识别在医疗保健系统中至关重要，既用于控制对数字化患者数据集中档案的逻辑访问，限制对建筑物和医院病房的物理访问，又用于对医疗和社会支持人员进行身份验证。此外，越来越需要高度准确地识别患者。最后，存在生物识别认证设备可能会大量泄露任何健康信息的风险。所有这些问题都需要进行仔细的伦理和政治审视。
