Health care providers are starting to see the benefit of using biometrics for patient identification. These benefits include: less fraud, fewer duplicate records, shorter wait times. M2SYS Technology’s Michael Trader and Novant Health’s Melanie Wilson chat with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about biometrics in health care.

The new Zwipe MasterCard enables consumers to dump PIN codes and passwords. Zwipe and MasterCard have teamed up for on a contactless payment card featuring an integrated fingerprint sensor.

Whether you call it a squiggle, doodle or free-form gesture, the act of drawing a curvy line in lieu of typing a four-digit code is getting positive reviews from researchers, software developers and users when it comes to authentication.

Weekly news briefs detailing new reports on the fingerprint sensor and smart card markets as well as details on the Norwegian Police PKI project and improvements in fingerpint spoofing from NexID.

The Security Industry Association looks at some of the potential technologies that can help the U.S. secure its borders. From biometric exit and entry to fences, real and virtual there are a variety of systems that can help protect the borders.

Tangerine is enabling banking customer to use the fingerprint scanner on iPhones as an additional factor of authentication to access their accounts on the mobile devices and will introduce voice biometrics later this year.

The Fall 2014 Regarding ID magazine is available for viewing online. Read about identity and the Internet of Things, Bring Your Own Identity, vulnerability in two-factor authentication and doodling your way to secure access.