By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications President Obama has created a group called the National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions. The charge of the organization is to produce a framework that may eventually lead to U.S. citizens using strong authentication when conducting business on the Internet. The vision of the group is: “To improve the […]

The Korean government stated that 50% of all its drugs will be equipped with RFID technology by 2015 to improve inventory control and reduce the number of prescription errors, according a Korea Times report. The country’s low recovery rate for second-rate drugs is currently around 20% and government officials have long considered RFID as a […]

The Identive Group, formerly SCM Microsystems, Hirsch Electronic and Bluehill ID, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RockWest Technology Group, a privately-held identification and security solutions provider. RockWest provides ID management solutions and services to the education, government, corporate, casino and health care markets in the southwest region of the U.S. […]

Jim Zok, director of identity and privacy assurance at CSC, talks about the issues surrounding identity assurance. With concerns regarding ID theft and cybersecurity on the rise there should be some type of way for citizens to authenticate online. Standards, liability and practices are all issues that need to be settled before an identity assurance […]

EXTENSION INC. is planning to start a group to advocate the issuance of smart card IDs for health care, says Todd Plesko, CEO at the Fort Wayne, Ind.-based company. With the push to deploy electronic medical records underway there needs to be a way to properly identify patients while also keeping the information secure. Plesko […]

The United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued an interim final rule on the use of e-prescriptions of controlled substances, according to a Government Health IT article. The new ruling requires that a doctor or pharmacist creating the prescription must authenticate their identity via two factors: a biometric factor, a knowledge factor such as […]

Simply Healthcare Plans (SHP), a Florida-based HMO, has partnered with Biometric Technologies, an ID systems provider, in an effort to thwart health care fraud, according to a CIOL article. The Biometric Technologies product that is to be used for the SHP project is their BioClaim software that is developed specifically to weed out fraudulent health […]