Kenyans urged to register biometrics for health insurance
The Chief Executive Officer of Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has called on citizens not to drag their feet…
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‘Narrow opportunity’ to use biometrics for fair COVID global vaccination programming
“An effective vaccination program will falter if we don’t invest in the information infrastructure for vaccine delivery in developed and…
India’s COVID vaccination management system ‘issued over 110M unique health IDs’
India’s biometrics-backed COVID vaccination management system, CoWIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) has issued 110,542,794 unique health IDs (UHIDs) as part…
Apple studies integrating biometric health sensors in AirPods
Apple’s Machine Learning Research team has published a paper, spotted by Patently Apple, that hints at the integration of biometric…
RAIsonance biometric app makes coughing a tool for societal recovery
RAIsonance, a group of AI-focused companies working on health, wellness, safety and natural language processing have announced the release of…
Device-based biometrics expand for banks, healthcare and enterprises
Mobile device biometrics continue to grow in adoption and scope, with FacePhi approved as a provider of selfie facial recognition…
Smartphones have handed us the key to frictionless patient experiences
By Daniel Cidon, CTO, NextGate Since the beginning of healthcare’s digital revolution, organizations have been striving to achieve the Triple…
Healthcare digital identity immature? Imprivata can answer that
Imprivata has developed a new tool for healthcare delivery organizations to assess the maturity of their digital identity systems and identify…
India’s centralized biometrics systems allegedly increase exclusion they are intended to solve
The use of biometrics for an Indian government healthcare initiative has drawn intensive criticism from a researcher, who claims it…
UK researcher says digital ID being used for exclusion in Dominican Republic
A new book entitled ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic’ by Dr. Eve Hayes de Kalaf, a…
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