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The 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition has been cancelled, following new reports from the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control concerning the COVID-19 Coronavirus. This marks the first HIMSS conference cancellation in 58 years. In an official statement issued Thursday, HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf said: “Based on evaluation […]
Healthcare information technology company Vecna Technologies has announced it will be launching a new mobile app enhancing its Patient Self Check-in service at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2020 conference in Orlando. “Improving patient experience is at the core of everything we do at Vecna. The new white label app leverages Android and […]
UPDATE 03/05/2020: HIMSS Conference Cancelled Following WHO and CDC Reports on COVID-19 HIMSS has escalated its preparations to prevent the spread of COVID-19, with no plans to cancel this year’s healthcare IT-focused industry event. In its latest update, HIMSS organizers acknowledged that over the past week the novel coronavirus “has become a global topic of […]
As FindBiometrics’ coverage over the course of the past month has demonstrated, biometric technology is coming to healthcare in a big way. Through reliable and efficient patient identification, strong protection of digital medical records, AI-driven medical diagnosis, and more, biometrics are starting to make a real impact for healthcare providers and patients alike. But with […]
With the mobile biometrics revolution now having been underway for about half a decade, it’s high time that a similar revolution should come to healthcare. And it is coming: Biometric technologies are starting to have a major impact on a range of areas in this sector, from EPCS to patient identification and even medical diagnosis. […]
The healthcare sector represents a byzantine industry with a complex set of technological needs. Accordingly, it’s an area in which biometric technology offers some compelling applications, and is starting to make some serious inroads. It’s no wonder, then, that such technologies showed a stronger presence than ever at this year’s healthcare IT-focused HIMSS conference in […]
HIMSS has released its 2019 Cybersecurity Survey, generally finding improved cybersecurity awareness among healthcare organizations. Healthcare providers are devoting more funding to IT and taking advantage of the growing number of healthcare-specific solutions like Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant or OneBio’s blockchain platform. However, the survey also highlighted some glaring flaws in healthcare security, many […]
Biometric identification and authentication technologies offer a wide range of potential uses, and thanks to their reliability and ease of use in verifying identity, they have been notably embraced by the financial services sector and government authorities. But there’s another vertical market where such biometric technologies can prove particularly impactful: Healthcare. High Stakes A key […]
The identity revolution that transformed consumer mobile and financial services technology is finally coming to healthcare and that’s why FindBiometrics is reporting live from the 2019 HIMSS conference and Exhibition in Orlando Florida, bringing you audio interviews with industry thought leaders. John E. Ahrens, CEO of Veratad, is one of those thought leaders, and FindBiometrics […]
The 2019 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition is currently underway at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, and FindBiometrics is reporting live with expert interviews from the front lines of identity and healthcare. On day two of the conference FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill spoke with Kenneth Harper, Vice President of Emerging Solutions, Nuance Communications. […]
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