HID announced that its Trusted Tags meets the Electronic Visit Verification requirements for home health agencies enacted by several states as a condition of Medicaid participation; GlobalPlatform has published white paper examining how its Specifications can address the key privacy and security concerns for the deployment of Internet of things or machine-to-machine devices; Biometric Signature ID released an authentication solution for use with Epic’s electronic medical record software; ImageWare Systems was selected to implement a multi-modal biometric driver license system for the State of Baja California, Mexico.

The Regarding ID summer 2014 issue is online. Read about the biometric boogeyman, digital identity technologies, will Bluetooth challenge NFC, problems with e-passports, identity vetting efforts at the local level, defining the hardware security module and much more.

Resilient Networks’s pilot for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is enjoying success. Two west coast Health Information Exchanges are using the system and it’s enable messaging between provider in a safe and secure manner.

New Jersey legislators are considering new, high-tech identity documents for Medicaid recipients in the state. The new identity documents could potentially save the state millions of dollars per year as they reduce fraud and waste in the program.

By Kathleen Erickson, VP of Business Development, Fulcrum Biometrics When a medical clinic based in Papua New Guinea was tasked with the challenge of accurately identifying repeat patients, biometrics turned out to be the ideal solution. In a culture where name changes are frequent and people often have no form of ID, the clinic found […]

Can smart cards save the Medicare system $30 billion per year? Although there has been some success in combating Medicare fraud, we still do not have an answer to this question because implementation of a smart card program has yet to come to fruition.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has had an identity and access management road map in place for a number of years. “It encompasses things like directory services, single sign-on identity management provisioning, and we have best-of-breed applications at the enterprise here for each of those areas,” says Frank Morrow, program manager for Identity and Access Management […]

Michigan’s Department of Human Services will use a $1.3 million NSTIC grant to pilot an automated initiative to help clients establish their identity and avoid concerns related to cyber fraud. Michigan is among the top states for identity theft complaints, and today half of the agency’s applications for benefits are made online. “We just want […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

Delays in national ID and health care programs have caused ABI Research to predict a drop in smart card shipments for these applications in 2013. ABI forecasted that 435 million smart cards will ship into the government and health care citizen ID market in 2013, a reduction of 6 million when compared to 2012. The […]