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Nuance Communications will be providing healthcare providers with free COVID-19 Documentation Templates to help them fight the pandemic. The COVID-19 Content Pack is now available to all Dragon Medical users, and is based on the coding and reporting guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Health Information Management […]
FindBiometrics and Mobile ID World spent the recent weeks focusing on new identity technologies in healthcare, and how biometrics can enhance patient ID, electronic health records, and even diagnosis. ID Talk is continuing that healthcare biometrics conversation, and that’s why on our latest episode we are happy to welcome Jeff Carpenter, Product Marketing Director of […]
Nonprofit NGO Pew Charitable Trusts has announced a partnership with research institute RTI International to study the use of biometrics in improving patient medical record matching. The two institutions will work to develop a roadmap that looks into the use of improving patient medical records through the implementation biometric identifiers. The current practice is to […]
The global biometric healthcare market is in a period of strong revenue growth, and is forecasted to continue to do so driven primarily by the growing adoption of electronic health records (EHR), according to a new Frost & Sullivan report. Smart, connected healthcare systems and the use of digital healthcare tools have grown in popularity […]
A Canadian healthcare provider has deployed Nuance’s Dragon Medical One platform to streamline its documentation process. Northern Health treats patients in Northern British Columbia, and will leverage the speech recognition capabilities of Dragon Medical One and PowerMic Mobile to make it easier for its physicians to create and access accurate electronic health records (EHR). “We […]
A multi-year study on the benefits of clinical speech recognition software in hospital environment has produced some compelling results. The technology assessed was Nuance Communications’ Dragon Medical platform, which is designed to let healthcare practitioners record patient stories via dictation. Nuance provided the technology about three years ago to Health Quest, a nonprofit hospital network […]
February has come to an end and with it we must bring Healthcare Biometrics Month 2017 to a close. For the past four weeks FindBiometrics has turned its focus to biometrics, authentication, and identity technology in the healthcare space, with featured articles, exclusive interviews, and breaking news coverage in this exciting vertical market. Read on […]
by Kayla Matthews Did you know your heartbeat — the rhythm and timing in which your heart pumps — is unique to you? There are actually wearables that can measure this and convert your heartbeat into a kind of passcode. Amazing, right? Biometrics, in general, have the capacity to transform nearly every industry, one of […]
Biometrics in healthcare are on the rise according to the most recent market forecasts. According to Grand View Research, a surge in demand for biometric identity management solutions for healthcare has emerged from an increase in medical identity theft. The increased digitization of healthcare that has resulted from the needs of the Affordable Care Act […]
Part of NYU Lutheran medical center’s EHR system upgrade includes palm-vein biometrics courtesy of Imprivata. The Brooklyn-based NYU Lutheran medical center has launched a huge upgrade of its electronic health record system, and biometric technology is playing a significantly role. Its new system is called Epic, and has two primary components. One is an online app […]
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