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NewsWhite House pushes public/private collaboration for identity protection
President Obama's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace report, which outlines how the government will work with the private sector to develop a new approach to Internet security, Read more...
Smart cards to protect against data breaches
In response to the growing threat of medical identity theft, the Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council is calling for two-factor authentication for health IT systems, with--you guessed it--smart Read more...
Smart cards promote great efficiencies in Europe, Asia
In researching his book, The Healing of America, in which he promotes universal healthcare, Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid visited France to see how that nation's health system worked. Reid came Read more...
Insurers getting behind machine-readable ID cards
Last week, Humana and UnitedHealth Group threw their weight behind the concept of using machine-readable enrollee identification cards rather than than throwaway pieces of plastic. The concept has Read more...
Study: Unique patient identifiers could save $77 billion
Smarter use of existing technologies could save as much, if not more, on healthcare costs for developing new technology, a new RAND study finds. After all, unique patient identifiers (UPIs) already Read more...
ALSO NOTED: CMS helps docs with HIT; Smart card use growing; and much more...> CMS has created a new website designed to help physicians adopt information technology. Blog > Multi-application smart card use in healthcare settings is growing, particularly in France and Germany. Release > Hospitals in northwest Arkansas are sinking big bucks into a medical … Read more...Editor's Corner
Implanted RFID technology may well be a standard channel for transmitting electronic medical data at some point, but that day hasn't come yet. Right now, RFID is battling it out against smart cards, flash … Read more...Gates pitches smart card security benefitsAt the RSA 2007 conference this week, Bill Gates stood up to pitch smart cards as the solution to many of the IT industry's current security issues. Gates suggested that transitioning from weak passwords to smart cards would go a long way toward making distributed computing a reality. "Passwords are not only weak, [they] have a huge problem in that if you get more and more of them, the worse it is...so we have to evolve from them," Gates told the conference during his keynote. When … Read more...Editor's Corner
"Smart" medical debit cards on the riseNew research is predicting that with the growth in consumer-driven health plans, the industry will come to rely on "smart" debit cards linking clinical data, health plan coverage/eligibility information and personal identity details. The study, conducted by HealthLeaders/Interstudy, predicts that in time, a single card will have access to a consumer's bank, payor and provider systems. In this world, it will be possible for a consumer to see a provider, get benefits verified, a claim … Read more... | Press ReleasesSmart cards, mobile telephony and M2M at the heart of e-health servicesPARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Smart security technologies (security and respect for private life) are crucial to improving the quality of care and patient comfort, but also in the fight against fraud and Read more >> Gemalto and LifeNexus Partner to Introduce Personal Health Card® With the Patented iChip™'Individually Controlled Health Information Platform™'AUSTIN, Texas and BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, Read more >> HID Global Helps Healthcare Firm Complete Major Employee Re-Badging and Pave Way for More Secure Contactless TechnologyAlbert Einstein Healthcare Network Taps Most Extensive Options for Migrating from Legacy Access Control Solutions to Contactless, Multi-Application Technologies IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HID Read more >> |
