Patient data privacy should be a focus of patient safety, say industry insiders
Not that many people would have heard about it, but September 17 was World Patient Safety Day, and the United…
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Biometric vehicle cabin monitoring promises safer occupants
A new report on the future of technology embedded in the driver and passenger seats of automobiles suggests biometrics will…
Simprints hiring consultant to evaluate biometrics pilot for young children in Bangladesh
Biometrics non-profit Simprints is seeking a consultant to perform monitoring and evaluation for a trial project to use fingerprints to…
Biometric wallet, facial recognition deployed for patients in US, Israel
MSP Recovery has deployed its biometrics-enabled app, LifeWallet as part of a new pilot program with Miami-based care provider Cano…
The Gambia launches new biometric CRVS and health insurance scheme
President Adama Barrow of The Gambia has appealed to citizens of the West African country of 2.5 million people to…
Ignoring race in health care AI solves nothing. There is a better option
Talk about a contrarian stance. A stats-and-analysis team from RAND Corp. says predicting a patient’s race and ethnicity can result…
Berkshire granted $2M to further develop opioid treatment device with finger, dental biometrics
Berkshire Biomedical has been awarded funding to continue the development of its biometric home methadone administration device. The technology’s development…
FaceHeart’s new face biometric software enables remote diagnosis of patients’ vitals
Taiwanese startup FaceHeart has developed AI-powered software capable of remote diagnosis of patients via image processing, along with biometric matching….
Portable health record created for US Border Patrol. Can it work for everyone else?
When officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency recently discussed their new portable health records system used for…
How biometric technology is reinventing patient identification
It’s hard to care for patients if you don’t know who they are. Yet while patient identification systems have come…
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