Imprivata adds touchless biometric palm scanner for safe patient matching
Digital identity firm Imprivata has partnered with biometric device supplier Keyo on a new contactless biometric palm scanner for its…
Healthcare Biometrics
Biometrics are used in doctors’ offices, hospitals, and other healthcare setting for ensuring accurate patient identification, or for monitoring patients. Applications can include access control or patient record storage. Patient monitoring outside of traditional healthcare settings can also employ biometrics, and biometrics are also being implemented for developing applications like electronic prescriptions and remote diagnosis.
Biometrics in the medical industry is blooming- what’s next?
This is a guest post written by Sarah Amundsson, senior business developer at Shufti Pro. Data security is an increasing…
Biometric app for dementia patient management set to launch
A biometric application vital for the management of persons suffering from dementia is set to be launched in the course…
Simprints biometric vaccine management solution among winners of MIT healthcare challenge
A biometric system for vaccine delivery entered by Simprints Technology is among the winners of MIT Solve’s Health Security &…
Study tests if smartwatch biometrics could spot early COVID-19 clues
Fans of siccing biometrics on COVID-19 have another possible solution. Purdue University is studying the possibility that an AI-enabled smartwatch…
Heart biometrics launched to Samsung wearables, military tests illness prediction with Garmin and Oura
Samsung wearables in the U.S. are gaining a biometric function, and the country’s military is testing wearables from Garmin and…
EU research group talks up access control, biometrics in healthcare
A European Union-funded innovation project called Panacea is showing biometric access control software tools that would be a part of…
Majority of Americans want biometrics for health record access and sharing, Pew survey finds
Biometrics are the first choice of patient health record identifier by 54 percent of American adults, according to a survey…
Acuant ID document scanning to verify COVID-19 patient data for NeuroLab
Acuant has announced NeuroLab BI, a clinical lab optimization company, is licensing its ID document scanning technology to verify the…
Aadhaar biometrics extend to drivers’ processes, expansion of police biometric data collection proposed
Drivers in India can now use biometrics to perform Aadhaar authentication for drivers’ license renewal and vehicle registration processes, the…
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