ID.me expands reach of digital identity wallet for healthcare management
U.S. patient access and healthcare records management provider Flexpa has signed on to use ID.me’s digital identity wallet to give…
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Concerns over the security of electronic personal health information intensifies
On Friday, an attorney for Ascension Health, a major U.S. hospital operator, wrote to Maine’s attorney general to tell him…
NEC admits password complacency in Japan hospital patient data breach
A ransomware attack last year which led to disruptions in the digital medical records system of the Osaka General Medical…
Health Gorilla, Clear join forces for biometric access to portable medical records
Health Gorilla, a health information network and interoperability provider, has partnered with Clear to launch the Individual Access Services platform….
Biometrics in healthcare to see four-fold increase by 2024 to over $2.7B
Although biometric adoption in the healthcare sector was initially limited to patient identification and verification, the adoption of electronic health…
It’s 2020: Why is patient matching still so hard?
Anyone of a certain age will remember the early Internet’s utopian promises: democratic governments the norm; truth the global currency,…
HHS, DISA Assured Identity pilot aims to protect healthcare data with biometrics and behavior authentication
The U.S. government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is developing biometric and behavior-based authentication for employees in partnership…
U.S. Senate urged to allow federal funding for national patient ID
Advocates are urging the U.S. Senate to follow the House of Representatives in removing a ban on federal funding for…
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…
SmartMetric introduces biometric card for medical records storage
SmartMetric announced it has created a biometrics-secured smart card that stores an individuals medical files, including scans and images. The…
