PhilHealth to add biometric fingerprint scanning to end health insurance fraud
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) plans to adopt a smartphone-based biometric fingerprint scanning system in health facilities in the…
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.
Not there yet: Biometrics to link developing world community, hospital patient data
Researchers who conducted a new study on an effort to assign biometric IDs to HIV patients in Kenya discovered that…
Imprivata upgrades OneSign biometric application security, partners with Modeus
Imprivata has unveiled OneSign 7.0 with Imprivata Web SSO for seamless, more secure fingerprint biometric access to on-premise and cloud…
Sentara Healthcare integrates Imprivata biometric patient identification technology
Over a century old Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia, is now using biometric palm vein identity authentication to connect over…
Elektra Labs launches biometric monitoring platform and raises $2.9M seed funding
Healthcare security startup Elektra Labs has launched a new management product for biometric monitoring technologies and announced a $2.9 million…
Verato earns Hitrust CSF information security certification
Cloud-based identity resolution service provider Verato has earned information security validation from Hitrust for its Verato Universal MPI and Verato…
Mastercard taps biometrics and behavioral analytics in new product suite for healthcare partners
The digital healthcare services market has a new major player, with Mastercard announcing the launch of an integrated product suite…
Nuance and Microsoft partner for automated health records with voice biometrics
Voice biometrics and processing provider Nuance Communications has formed a partnership with Microsoft to transform healthcare delivery with ambient clinical…
Canadians expect government, private sector to develop digital ID framework
Some 70 percent of Canadians would adopt digital identity and think the government should join forces with the private sector…
NHS enhances app with biometric security and releases code to developers
The National Health Service in the United Kingdom has released two pieces of open source code that developers can use…
