LifeMed Card Inc. announced that it has installed its new smart card-based patient access system called “LifeMed” at The Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. LifeMed has been developed for hospitals identify patients and help manage them through the admissions process. Patients also have the ability to view and contribute to their overall medical records. […]

China’s Daily RFID has unveiled a new RFID-based hospital patient management solution. The solution is marketed in an easy-to-deploy kit format, containing the necessary components for a complete, hands-free patient identification system. The solution kit includes passive RFID wristbands, a PDA-style handheld reader, and a desktop reader, along with the necessary software. The wristbands are […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. announced that its eHeatlh500 mobile terminal has received the required certification for use with the new eHealth cards in stage two of the introduction of the electronic health cards in Germany. The certification for SCM’s eHealth500 mobile reader comes from gematik, the German health care organization overseeing the implementation of the country’s […]

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has unveiled a health ID card through partnerships with EXTENSION Inc. and TrustBearer Labs. This system has been deployed at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City with the issuance of the first G&D patient health cards on April 1. EXTENSION Health Connect provides patient identification and information exchange. It […]

The Smart Card Alliance released a brief for federal health care policymakers on the importance of reliable identification technology in the market. “With the $17 billion federal government investment planned for health care IT as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009, we thought this was the right time to bring […]

As the technology increases in reliability and affordability, more health care IT professionals are pointing hospitals towards biometric solutions for patient management, according to a Health Management Technology article by health care IT consultant Mike Wisz. Among the many recommendations from Wisz are replacing standard ID cards with smart cards, specific utilization of fingerprint biometrics, […]

A new world-wide survey of human saliva microbiomes, the various bacteria found in human saliva, conducted by Mark Stonking, a molecular anthropologist from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, shows that saliva could potentially be used as a unique authenticator for biometrics, according to an article from The Escapist. In addition […]

M2SYS, a developer of biometric products, has been tapped by RPGSi Business Solutions, a provider of business technology for Latin America, for integrating their Bio-Plugin fingerprint software with their HealthGest health care software. Additionally, the integrated software will be shipped with M2SYS’ M2-S fingerprint readers. The HealthGest software is a module that supports health clinic […]

The Medical Group Management Association is starting to push for health insurers, vendors and health care providers to adopt standardized, machines-readable patient ID cards. The standard calls for use of magnetic stripe or two-dimensional bar code technology with the IDs. Most patient ID cards in use have no machine-readable elements. Health care providers typically photocopy […]

Thanks to hospitals implementing biometrics for patient identification purposes, many patients will no longer need to worry about having correct ID cards and health insurance cards at the ready for their hospital visit, according to a Contra Costa Times article. ValleyCare hospital on the U.S. West Coast is only the third hospital in the county […]