Topics for May’s #biometricchat on Biometric Technology with Maxine Most (@cmaxmost)

John TraderMay 20, 2013Leave a Reply

May's biometric tweet chat will discuss the biometrics industry with Maxine Most.

May #biometricchat tweet chat features Maxine Most from Acuity Market Intelligence.

When: May 23, 2013 11:00 am EST, 8:00 am PST, 16:00 pm BST, 17:00 pm (CEST), 23:00 pm (SGT), 0:00 (JST)

Where: tweetchat.com (hashtag #biometricchat)

What: Tweet chat on biometrics industry

Topics: Public education on biometric technology, vendor mistakes when bringing products to market, recent Merger & Acquisition activity, additional markets for biometrics, private vs. public sector revenue growth, global hot spots for continued biometrics industry growth

Here are the list of questions that we will cover during our tweet chat on biometric technology May 23rd at 11 a.m. EDT (read this post on May’s #biometricchat for more details) with Maxine Most (@cmaxmost):

1. How can biometric vendors take a more active role in educating the public on misunderstandings about the technology to promote wider acceptance?

2. What are some of the mistakes you have observed from biometric vendors taking products to market that could have been avoided or may have adversely affected the success of their solutions? What advice can you offer vendors who are researching and developing new products and solutions that can help them to be successful?

3. What is your interpretation of recent biometric M&A activity and what types of trends can we expect to see in the near future?

4. Will the increased demand for biometric technology help to open the door for its use in additional verticals? If so, what markets do you feel can benefit the most from the technology?

5. I remember some time ago you were predicting that the private sector and public sector would generate about the same amount of revenue by 2014. Is that prediction still on target and what private sector markets to you see getting the most traction?

6. What area of the world do you feel holds the most potential for continued growth of biometric deployments and why?

The biometric technology chat will take place on May the 23rd at 11 am EDT, 8:00 am PST, 16:00 pm BST, 17:00 pm (CEST), 23:00 pm (SGT), 0:00 (JST). Please join us and follow the discussion using tweetchat.com. This site will automatically fill in the chat hashtag at the end of all your tweets, no need to type #biometricchat for each tweet you send.

Don’t worry if you can’t make the chat on May the 23rd. We will be archiving the discussion and posting it here shortly afterwards. If you have any additional questions you would like to ask Maxine, please send an email to: marketing @m2sys.com

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on May’s #biometricchat!

Top 5 Reasons to Visit us in Booth #219 at this Week’s NAHAM Patient Access Trade Show & Conference

John TraderMay 14, 2013Leave a Reply

The 39th annual NAHAM trade show and conference is May 16 – 18 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.

May is always an exciting time of the year for us here at M2SYS because the National Association of Healthcare Access Management’s (NAHAM) annual symposium and trade show falls during the month. And to top it off, this year’s conference is in our hometown of Atlanta!

If you aren’t familiar with NAHAM, here is a brief synopsis of who they are from their Web site:

“The National Association of Healthcare Access Management is the leading resource in Patient Access Services.

We establish best practices and subject matter expertise; provide an array of networking, education, and certification opportunities; and enable our members to influence and promote high quality delivery of Patient Access Services.

Patient access services professionals provide quality services in registration and all of its support processes to patients, providers and payors into, through and out of their health care experience.”

The annual conference theme this year is: “Leading the Way: A Brave New World of Patient Access” and promises to be one of the best shows yet as the NAHAM staff has assembled an impressive agenda and speakers to talk about current topics in patient access management.

So, why should you stop and see us this year at the show? Here are the top 5 reasons:

1. Solution demos - Here at M2SYS , we are excited to be a vendor in this year’s NAHAM Exhibit Hall (stop and see us in Booth #219) to meet some of the attendees and demonstrate our RightPatient™ hybrid biometric patient identification solution with iris recognition, a technology that has caught on with many hospitals and is spreading rapidly.

2. Entertainment and giveaways - We have some special surprises in our booth this year too. Stop by to meet and take a photo with Jessica Black, Miss United States 2010 and enter your name to win a prize so secretive we can’t tell you what it is…you will have to stop by our booth and see for yourself! (Hint – it has wheels)

3. Education - Accurate patient identification has become a hot topic in healthcare since accurate and effective treatment along the care continuum hinges on the ability to identity a patient correctly. Now, more than ever, it’s important to educate on what healthcare biometrics technology options are available to help ensure patient identification accuracy.

4. Mobile patient identification - We will be demonstrating a mobile iris patient identification solution in our booth that medical practitioners can use with a smart device like an Android smart phone and identify patients anywhere in a hospital setting including the ability to identify unconscious patients and patients en route to the hospital for more coordinated and effective treatment.

5. Due diligence - This is the time to ask all of the questions on your mind about the benefits of using biometrics for patient identification in a patient access setting. It is critical that you perform the necessary due diligence before investing in any type of patient identification solution. Our staff will be available to demonstrate the technology and answer any questions you may have.

Hoping to see you at the 39th annual NAHAM conference this year in Atlanta!

May #biometricchat Welcomes Maxine Most from Acuity Market Intelligence to Discuss Biometrics Industry

John TraderMay 10, 2013Leave a Reply

May #biometricchat tweet chat features Maxine Most from Acuity Market Intelligence.

When: May 23, 2013 11:00 am EST, 8:00 am PST, 16:00 pm BST, 17:00 pm (CEST), 23:00 pm (SGT), 0:00 (JST)

Where: tweetchat.com (hashtag #biometricchat)

What: Tweet chat on biometrics industry

We are pleased to announce that Maxine Most from Acuity Market Intelligence will be our guest for May’s tweet chat on biometric technology. Maxine is an internationally recognized biometrics industry consultant and Acuity Market Intelligence has built a stellar reputation in the Biometrics marketplace for quality, integrity, and innovative thought-leadership. For more than 10 years, Acuity has demonstrated an unrivaled ability to consistently provide accurate and reliable biometrics market intelligence.

Acuity continues to bring this unique perspective to the Biometrics industry through strategic consulting engagements, off-the-shelf and custom market research, conference presentations, industry publications, the eUpdate Newsletter, and Acuity’s most recent vehicles – Twitter and the eUpdate Blog.

Although we will be posting a list of questions and topics for the discussion next week here on the blog, we can provide a little foreshadowing of the chat by telling you that the focus of the conversation will be on:

Biometrics strategic market development
Maxine’s interpretation of industry mergers & acquisitions
What other markets could benefit from biometric technology
Private and public sector growth discrepancies
What areas of the world will continue to see strong growth for biometric deployments in the future

We will post a full list of the topics and questions here on this blog early next week. Have a question that you would like to ask Maxine? Drop us an email at marketing@m2sys.com and we will try and include that in the discussion. Please help us to spread the word about May’s #biometricchat tweet chat and please mark your calendar to save the date!

Iris Biometrics for Patient Identification in Healthcare Spreading Across the Globe

John TraderApril 29, 20132 Replies

Using iris biometrics for patient identification is helping healthcare to eliminate medical identity theft and stop patient fraud.

Healthcare facilities all across the world are increasingly seeing the benefits of using iris biometrics for patient identification

In case you missed it, there was an excellent article written by Kristen Hallam from Bloomberg News about the increased use of iris biometrics for patient identification in healthcare to help fight medical identity theft, eliminate duplicate medical records, raise patient safety levels, reduce data breaches, and prevent fraud. In the article, Ms. Hallam points out that healthcare providers all around the world are increasingly discovering the benefits of using iris biometrics for patient identification as they search for technology solutions to curb the patient safety perils of fraud, identity theft, and data breaches.

Among the key findings in the article:

Colorado-based Acuity Market Intelligence forecast predicts that the use of biometrics in healthcare will increase about 20 percent a year to almost $11 billion by 2017
Iris is the preferred biometric patient identification modality over fingerprint and other hardware because it does not require physical contact by a patient thus supporting hospital infection control initiatives
Biometrics for patient identification do not require a patient to physically carry any ID card or documentation with them when visiting a medical facility — this prevents swapping and sharing of medical insurance
Data breaches and subsequent medical identity theft are increasing in healthcare — using biometrics for patient identification helps to lower that possibility and help keep patients safe
Iris biometric patient identification systems are less expensive than you may think — technology refinements have helped to lower the cost
Biometrics is not a foolproof way to eliminate medical identity theft — data breaches committed by employees are still a risk
The U.K. has a growing phenomenon called “shame-based theft in which a patient who doesn’t want his illness to be known seeks care using someone else’s identity
The iris has so many features that it’s 100,000 times more resistant to false identification than face recognition
Iris biometrics patient identification systems do not use lasers to scan an eye — instead a high powered digital camera that takes digital pictures of the iris using low-power light-emitting diodes, known as LED lighting is used to capture a photo

A lot of great information about the rising prominence of iris biometrics for patient identification appears in the article including interviews, quotes, and sound bites from the World Privacy Forum, Aoptix, and our own CEO/Founder Mizan Rahman. Special thanks to Kristen Hallam for taking the time to research and write such a informative article!

What other advantages can using biometrics for patient identification bring to the healthcare market?

The Rise of Photographs for Accurate Patient Identification

John TraderApril 18, 2013Leave a Reply

Patient photos as part of a multi-factor patient identification strategy can significantly reduce errors and increase patient safety.

Researchers have discovered that a patient photo with their x-ray drastically reduces identification errors.

Interesting joint research study out of Emory University and Georgia Tech that sheds light on the increasing importance of using a patient’s photograph to help establish more accurate identification and reduce errors. Researchers experimented with including patient photos on their X-rays and discovered that this led to a five-fold decrease in patient identification errors.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Researchers asked 10 radiologists to look at 20 pairs of X-ray images, with and without patient photos. There were two to four mismatched pairs in each set of 20 pairs. Without patient photos, the error detection rate was 13 percent; the rate improved to 64 percent when photos were included.

Some of the radiologists ignored the photos, however, because they thought the objective of the experiment was to determine if they would be distracted by photos.

The researchers then conducted another test with five radiologists who were told to use the photos. The error detection rate rose to 94 percent, according to the study, which is scheduled for Monday presentation at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, D.C.”

Using photos as a means to identify patients or as part of a multi-factor authentication identification process is rising within the healthcare market to help increase patient safety, prevent duplicate medical records and overlays, and eliminate patient fraud like medical identity theft at the point of service. CIOs, patient access managers, revenue cycle managers, IT Directors, and others closely tied into healthcare’s patient identification system infrastructure are starting to see the value to invest in a patient identification software solution that offers multi-factor authentication like iris and facial recognition.

The flexibility of using multi-factor patient identification systems allows patient registration staff and clinicians the ability to instantly verify a patient’s identity at each touch point throughout the care continuum from initial registration to pre-op, medication distribution, radiological services, pathology, and more.

Patient identification strategies are changing in healthcare and more facilities are recognizing the value of incorporating a multi-factor patient identification system to help reduce errors, keep patients safe, and lower the overall cost of care.

What are some ways that your medical facility is using patients photos or multi-factor authentication to increase patient safety?