Biometrics In Healthcare
   
 Healthcare providers nationwide have deployed biometrics to identify staff and patients to reduce risk,  improve user convenience  and lower operating costs.

• Dr. Halamka has experienced first hand the benefits of incorporating biometric identification.
  Click here to read 5/29/09 blog on BIO-key  "A simple way to prevent identity theft and to authenticate web applications using your finger. That's cool!"
  Click here to read 12/2/2009 blog on the value that biometric provide healthcare institutions.

 
Click here to read 3/29/10 blog on a recent DEA rule on e-Prescribing Controlled substances and the need for 2 factor authentication. The BIDMC will
investigate 3 approaches; "The use of fingerprint biometrics using web-based software from Bio-Key as described in my cool technology blog".

John D. Halamka, MD, MS is Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing Emergency Physician.

• Case Study: Allscripts addresses patient confidentiality & physician convenience at George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates
   

• Nurses Dispense Medications Faster and Pharmacies See Hard-Dollar Inventory Savings with McKesson's Latest Connect-Rx Software.
           Click here to read more Sept 16, 2008 Story
           Click here to read October 2008 Installation Summary
  
   Blood Centers Positively identify donors in seconds!
  View Channel 8 Story on how Indiana donors identify with BIO-key!   
  2008 Risk & Insurance.com Winner Jeff Davies Implements Solution to Protect Information & Donor Privacy!
  Download Case Study: How a Blood Center Safeguards Donor Identity to Better Enable a Safe, Constant, Stable Blood Supply

  

   You can quickly and cost effectively add biometrics to virtually any application to positively identify patients, staff and blood donors in seconds!   BIO-key identity solutions enable you seamlessly integrate fingerprint biometrics into any of your processes. They deliver a tangible return on your security platform investment that:
          ·  Reduces risk                                                                                  
          ·  Improves user convenience                                      
            ·  Lowers operating costs