ImageWare partners with Gatekeeper Innovation to tackle opioid crisis with biometrics
ImageWare Systems has announced a partnership with Gatekeeper Innovation to combine their technologies to combat the national opioid epidemic in…
Healthcare Biometrics
Healthcare biometrics refers to biometric applications in doctors’ offices, hospitals, or for use in monitoring patients. This can include access control, identification, workforce management or patient record storage. Read our research report on biometrics and healthcare.
Singapore emergency responders to identify patients with biometrics by 2020
Paramedics and emergency service (EMS) responders in Singapore will be able to identify patients with fingerprints by 2020 to save…
Singapore to extend national biometric ID system to banking and healthcare sectors, expand facial recognition at borders
Singapore’s government is planning a trial of a National Digital Identity Facial Biometric System, which could enable banks and healthcare…
Medical biometrics R&D proving to also have wide-ranging security applications
Rapidly advancing mobile-device technologies and information-sharing platforms like “wearable devices,” are hurriedly being developed which can “capture a wide variety…
Integrated Biometrics tech enables anonymous mobile HIV testing in South Africa
South African non-governmental organization “Shout It Now” is using fingerprint sensors from Integrated Biometrics in its mobile testing vans to…
Standards needed for biometrics and other data to tap potential of electronic health records
Patient matching needs to be significantly improved with a national strategy and standards agreed to by health organizations and technology…
Fujitsu biometric remote patient engagement software launched to Epic marketplace
Fujitsu America has launched its MedClick medication adherence and patient engagement product to the Epic App Orchard marketplace to help…
Kenya progressing toward biometric deployment in all hospitals to curb health insurance fraud
At least 1,370 hospitals in Kenya have deployed biometric kits in a bid to stamp out health insurance fraud as…
Integrated Biometrics fingerprint scanners powering remote healthcare services in Kenya
Kenyan healthcare provider Afya Research Africa (ARA) is using fingerprint biometrics to establish identity to provide care to people in…
AfriDOKTA adds Smart Applications International biometrics to secure telehealth accounts
Telemedicine and mobile health company AfriDOKTA and biometric health insurance administration automation company Smart Applications International (Smart) have formed a…
