Smart Card Alliance’s Industry Councils will be holding elections to designate steering committees and officers. Five of the six Industry councils will be electing new committees and officers— Access Control, Health care, Identity, Payments and Transportation— as the newly formed Mobile and NFC Council held its election in May of 2012. The councils’ nomination process […]

McKesson Corp. announced the launch of its latest RFID-based cabinets, designed to enable hospitals the ability to better manage expensive physician preference items (PPIs). The cabinets use low-touch technology to automate control of high-dollar medical inventory, including stents, pacemakers, implants and orthopedic supplies. The cabinets enable hospital staff to manage inventories automatically and give nursing […]

Ohio-based Standard Register’s Healthcare business unit has released its Identity Authentication Solution for the health care industry as a way to combat medical identity theft. The product is designed to augment the unit’s portfolio of patient access solutions, giving health care providers a means to validate patient identities and verify addresses during the admittance procedures. […]

If you work with access control solutions at your company or institution, don’t miss this chance to hear from four high-profile organizations that are actually using smart phones as access credentials in their environments. At the ASIS Conference in Philadelphia – Sept. 10 from 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. EDT – HID Global will host a […]

Researchers at Dartmouth College have published a paper describing how a sensor bracelet can passively take biometric readings for heath care identification. The team is examining the bracelet as an option to help authenticate the wearer and identify medical needs by using bioimpedance as a metric. This technology could simplify medical record gathering and share […]

BIO-key International Inc. will present advances in fingerprint biometric authentication technology at the Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) at McCormick Place in Chicago on Aug. 15 to 17. Ed Black, director of healthcare solutions for BIO-key, will be presenting its technology with John Judd, manager, product management at Allscripts. Black intends to show how the technology […]

The SAFE-BioPharma Association has named Peter Alterman, Ph.D., its Chief Operating Officer. The Association is a non-profit collaboration responsible for the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and digital signature standard for the life science and health care industries. Alterman has 33 years of information security experience in the U.S. federal government, most recently with the National […]