Card producer Arthur Blank & Co. has teamed with INSIDE Contactless to give the U.S.-based company access to INSIDE’s technology, allowing it to “offer a global solution for contactless cards” produced in all of Arthur Blank’s facilities. Boston, Massachusetts–Arthur Blank & Co. has announced a partnership with INSIDE Contactless for the supply of its newly […]

Arthur Blank & Co., part of the American Banknote Group, has received MasterCard and VISA certifications for its 50,000 square foot production facility in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. The newly-certified operation, with an annual production capacity of more than 100 million cards, will now add secure bank cards to its roster of pre-paid, private label and […]

Key Benefit Administrators (KBA) will be implementing BioPassword Internet Edition to help secure access to the sensitive health insurance and benefits records of more than 3,000 clients covering 500,000 insured members. SecureWebManager, a centralized Web portal, depends on BioPassword’s authentication platform to verify users based on their unique typing rhythms, even if they are accessing […]

Sony has developed a bioplastic version of its FeliCa contactless smart card that can be used for photo ID cards and other applications that involve printing. Smart cards made from plant-derived plastics do not take printing well, so applications to date have been limited to uses like health insurance cards. Instead, Sony uses a proprietary […]

VeriChip has equipped 27 American Medical Response (AMR) ambulances in three counties in the Atlanta metro area with Bluetooth-enabled scanners. The company, well-known for its controversial implantable RFID chips, says the ambulances are the first fleet of their kind in the country to be equipped with the VeriMed system for both emergency and non-emergency transport […]

Secure Services Corp. (SSC) has integrated their Secure Health and Privacy Environment (SHAPE) Smart Token® Constructive Key Management (CKM) cards with Intercede’s MyID smart card and identity credential management platform. Features of SSC’s SHAPE Smart Token® CKM card include: the card holder controls who has access to specified information and their fingerprint is converted to […]

Why do you want need to go RFID Journal’s “RFID in Health Care” conference, slated for Jan. 23, 2008, in Las Vegas? For starters, we’ve reached the point where, if you don’t go, you may be missing out on latest and greatest in the biz. The conference’s educational tracks will cover patient monitoring, asset tracking, […]

ScreenCheck has qualified for the new AET Europe B.V. (AET) Certified Solution Program. AET uses ScreenCheck for total card solutions concepts. ScreenCheck provides smart card ID solutions for national ID card systems, weapon card systems and medical card solutions. AET has a global ranking as a market and technology leader when it comes to middleware […]

In order to make the process more secure, efficient and convenient for patients, Fujitsu and HT Systems are partnering to offer PatientSecure, a comprehensive biometric patient identification management system. The PatientSecure system uses the Fujitsu PalmSecure™ biometric authentication sensor which uses near infrared light to capture the vein pattern in a patient’s palm. The biometric […]

Some 1.2 million patients of two New York hospitals will soon be using ID cards carrying a chip manufactured by Infineon Technologies. The new health smart cards include the patient’s printed photo. To use the card, the patient inserts the card into a card reader and enters a private PIN number to unlock the data […]