Biometrics
Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“My name is Don Fluckinger. My pals and work colleagues will likely confirm that I am, er, a unique individual.
Last I checked, I’m the only Don Fluckinger on Facebook, which makes me a popular guy, a conduit for all the John Smiths I went to school with looking to friend our mutual pal Jim Johnson, but who can’t figure out which one of the thousands Jim Johnsons on Facebook is the right one (or is he James? Or does he still go by his high school nickname, “Flock of Seagulls?”) — until they friend me and access my friend list. Ditto for LinkedIn, Twitter and other social media sites.
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18 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Identification, Identifiers, Patient
Engadget
“If athletic events were accessorized with coffee, comfy pajamas, and a particular knack for sedentariness, well, we’d be champs. Alas, sports are more typically characterized by movement which, we’re told, increases the participant’s pulse, breathing, and likelihood of turning an arm into a tattooed sleeve. Nevertheless, we can’t help but be intrigued by the Under Armour E39 (”E” for electric) compression shirt.
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28 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Sensors, Smart Clothes, Telemedicine, Wearable
Gold S. Biometric Technology Today, 2010(7)
Protecting patient data using biometrics is a surefire way of preventing a gross invasion of privacy from taking place
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12 September 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe, United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Data, Data Protection, Patient, Security
Joseph Kim, Medicine and Technology
“There are many people out there who fear that their medical data will be at greater risk for theft once we convert from a paper system to an electronic system. That’s a legitimate fear.
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13 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Biometrics, Privacy, Security
Jean-Jacques Fraslin, i-med
“Pour le rapporteur Dominique Tuan, tout est blindé. Le Dossier Médical Baladeur est autant en sécurité que s’il était entreposé à Fort Knox. Jean-Pierre Door renchérit : « La sécurisation est primordiale, qu’il s’agisse de la sécurité informatique, avec cryptage du support, authentification de l’utilisateur par mot de passe et biométrie, mais aussi de la sécurité de l’information par authentification de l’auteur des informations fournies et gravées, traçabilité des accès et, bien entendu, ce qui est techniquement possible, sécurité en cas de vol ou de perte du support ».
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26 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: France | EHR: EHR, EHR France | Tag(s): Biometrics, USB
Neil Versel, FierceHealthIT
“Last week in this space, I wrote about the importance of a master patient index or other form of reliable patient identifier as key to making health information exchange work.
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22 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Identification
iHealthBeat
“Hospitals and medical clinics increasingly are looking at biometric identification technology as a way to combat medical errors and identity theft and insurance fraud, CNN reports.
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16 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Hospitals, Identification
John Moore, Chilmark Research
“At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing citizens to receive their personal health information (PHI) is a digital format.
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18 December 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Biometrics, Data Sharing, phr, portability, Privacy, Security, Standards
PRNewswire
“When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers — a cutting edge biometric registration system that “reads” patients’ identities by scanning the unique vein structures in their palms.
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18 November 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics, Hospitals, Identification, Industry, Patient Safety, Privacy
Detlef Borchers, Heise Online
“Es kann nun offenbar doch losgehen mit der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK). Der für Oktober geplante Rollout in der Region Nordrhein stand im Mittelpunkt des zweitägigen Fachkongresses IT-Trends Medizin in Essen.
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11 September 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Germany | EHR: EHR, EHR Germany | Tag(s): Biometrics, Smart Card
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“A review of issues around medical records ownership and protection shows that medical records are the property of those who prepare them (medical professionals), and not the property of those about whom they are concerned (patients), although patients generally have a right to review them, demand copies of them and demand their confidentiality.
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18 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Biometrics, Cloud, Confidentiality, Ownership, Paper Conversion, Security
Pamela D. Mitroff, Digital ID News
“Smart cards, available since the 1970s, contain a computer chip embedded on the card, making them a mini-computer. Because of this computing power, they are considered the “gold standard” for secure data exchange.
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11 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Biometrics, Identification, Security, Smart Card
Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Kaiser Permanente is preparing to expand an IT pilot, while other IT initiatives are being piloted in limited production or tested at its R&D facility.
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22 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Biometrics, Data Mining, Innovation, Kiosk, tablet PC
Jeffrey M. O'Brien, Fortune Magazine
“Enter Springfield Clinic. “We’ve been doing patient satisfaction surveys for the last three years,” says Jim Hewett, CIO of the 195-physician medical treatment center, which serves 14 counties in Illinois.
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6 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Biometrics, Kiosk
“Last week, my BIDMC CEO Paul Levy posted a question in his blog about the utility of fingerprint biometrics for USB storage drives. This raises the more global issue of the usefulness of biometric authentication in hospitals.”
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John Halamka, 12 February 2008
14 February 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Biometrics
“Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems. Once live, doctors and nurses will no longer have to remember a password to log onto the hospital information system (HIS).”
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e-Health Europe, 17 January 2008
17 January 2008 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Austria | Tag(s): Biometrics, Hospitals
