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.
BIO-key International announced it is partnering with Experian Public Sector to provide combined, streamlined multi-factor ID proofing services and fraud…
Biometric wearables’ development firm Sensoria, formerly named Heapsylon, announced it has signed a term sheet with Italian consulting, systems integration…
The FBI announced it is working with the Department of Defense to expand the FBI center campus in Clarksburg, West…
M2SYS Technology announced that its M2-FuseID “smart” fingerprint reader has received FBI Personal Identity Verification certification. According to the press…
A professor at the University of Illinois is currently developing a new method of facial recognition technology to help predict…
Hitachi Europe and MIG Int. announced the launch of mobile Wi-Fi scanners, which use finger vein authentication technology to analyze…
Biometrics Week in Review: biometric sensors in smartwatch and smartphone, new biometric ID card for India, finger vein recognition, biometrics2014,…
In a new report, Reportlinker.com estimates that the gesture recognition and touchless sensing market will reach US$22.04 billion by 2020….
M2SYS Healthcare Solutions announced that Archbold Memorial Hospital has installed RightPatient, the company’s biometrics patient identification management solution designed to…
Microsoft will apparently launch its new smartwatch platform in October, which will be equipped with 11 biometric sensors, according to…
