An Oklahoma woman said she was relieved of her duties at an Integris hospital after she cited religious reasons for not wanting to comply with a hospital policy.

Maggie McBane, of Grove, recently told her supervisor at Integris Grove Hospital that she objected to signing up patients to use palm scanners that the hospital uses to identify patients.

Integris, the largest Oklahoma-based health system in the state, uses a palm-vein scanner system known as PatientSecure, which works by scanning the vein pattern of a patient's palm, according to the Integris website.

McBane cited religious reasons, explaining that she thought the company was lying to its patients about the type of information it was collecting and that she thought the system resembles the “mark of the beast” referenced in Revelation, the last book in the Bible.