You may not have noticed, but the biometrics identification industry is growing. Fast. As a fervid biometrics news curator, I am particularly in tune with stories about biometric identification technology deployments across the globe and new biometric modalities that could potentially have an impact on the market. A story came across the wire yesterday that […]
Read moreInteresting article about a recent deployment of biometric patient identification technology at Baptist Health Hospital in Florida in today’s news: https://fcnews.tv/SMdnU5 The article quotes the Director of Information Systems as saying the motivation for using biometric patient identification is: “to stop identity theft and ID Card sharing.” This we found to be perplexing based on the […]
Read moreToday, we released a brand new Infographic that illustrates the negative effect that inaccurate patient identification, patient fraud, and medical identity theft have on the healthcare industry. Here is a link to the Infographic: The Effect of Fraud, Theft and Inaccurate Patient Identification on Healthcare Since healthcare is increasingly focusing on cleaning up fraud and […]
Read moreYesterday, Becker’s Hospital Review published an article written by M2SYS entitled “Is Biometrics the Answer to Healthcare Data Integrity?” As healthcare slowly moves towards full scale adoption of electronic medical records and this digitization manifests into the creation of health information exchanges, more health IT professionals are worried about how to effectively manage healthcare data […]
Read moreYesterday, we announced a new partnership with Australian based ABT Security Systems designed to help businesses who struggle with antiquated workforce management systems and a lack of access control protocols by introducing biometric identity management tools that will help create efficiency and save money. The partnership will provide ABT Security with access to the following […]
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Planet Biometrics released an article today “Iris attacks no surprise to iris recognition inventor” which details an interview with John Daugman, Professor of Computer Vision and pattern Recognition at Cambridge in response to the recent Black Hat conference paper that hacked into an iris system and re-engineered images to fool a recognition device. Professor Daugman is […]
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How soon could we expect to see gesture biometrics vault into the mainstream as a viable biometric modality? According to an article in ZDNet Asia today, gesture biometrics, at least for ATM security banking purposes, is “unlikely to happen anytime soon.” Part of the reason is that gesture biometrics requires investment in an intricate system […]
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In biometrics, iris and retinal scanning are known as “ocular-based” identification technologies, meaning they rely on unique physiological characteristics of the eye to identify an individual. Even though they both share part of the eye for identification purposes, these biometric modalities are quite different in how they work. Let’s take a closer look at both […]
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Perhaps foreshadowing a future shift for micro-credit banks across the globe to start using biometrics for customer identification, we distributed a News Release today announcing that ASMAB, a micro-credit bank in the country of Benin, has started to use fingerprint biometric banking technology for customer identification. The genesis for ASMAB’s decision to start using fingerprint […]
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An article on the HotelierMiddleEast.com caught our eye this morning that could spell a new niche for biometric identification technology that has the potential for wide scale adoption. Here is a link to the article: Hotel key cards to be replaced with biometrics (HotelierMiddleEast.com) Seems that CADD Emirates out of the United Arab Emirates has implemented […]
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