Health Care & Insurance  December 17, 2018

Two hospitals add baby scanning technology

FORT COLLINS and LOVELAND — UCHealth has teamed up with CertaScan Technologies LLC to create electronic identification records of newborn babies’ feet.

The health-care company will use CertaScan Technologies at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins and UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland — the first in Colorado to use the technology to scan footprints electronically minutes after birth.

Much like fingerprints, footprints have a ridge pattern that stays the same through a person’s life. While the space between those ridges may…

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