Tag: biometric

22
Feb/12

Terry Hartmann from @unisyscorp to Discuss #biometrics & Cloud Computing at March #biometricchat (03/01 at 11am EST)

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Terry Hartmann joins M2SYS Technology for the March #biometricchat to discuss biometrics and cloud computing

March - biometrics and cloud computing

When: March 1, 2012

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 and cloud computing

Topics: The exponential growth of biometric data, leveraging the cloud for big data biometrics, applications that can benefit from biometric cloud computing, the burdens of new biometric modalities, the future of biometrics and the cloud

We are pleased to announce that Terry Hartmann from Unisys will be joining us at the March #biometricchat to discuss the past, current and possible future state of biometric cloud computing. The explosion of biometric data records in the last few years has precipitated the need to find efficient ways to store and process identity verification at often real-time speeds for the institutions that rely on this technology for security and other uses. Cloud computing has provided a fortuitous venue to store and process this data, our goal for the chat is to ask Terry some questions about the history of biometrics and the cloud, what advances have been made in the past few years and what we expect to see in the future as petabytes of biometric data mount and more agencies and organizations seek efficiency, speed and continued security for their deployments.

Just in case you are interested in participating but are new to Tweet chats, please read this post which outlines the instructions and procedures. We hope that you will join us for the discussion, and please spread the word among your colleagues and friends.

Do you have any questions that you would like to ask Terry? Please send them to: john@m2sys.com or come prepared with your questions, comments and feedback on Thursday, March the 1st at 11am EST.

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20
Feb/12

Fujitsu and M2SYS Team Up for Webinar on Biometrics for Time and Attendance in Healthcare

by under Workforce Management
Fujitsu and M2SYS team up for webinar on using biometric employee ID for workforce management

Fujitsu and M2SYS Webinar

 

Word is spreading across the workforce management landscape about the benefits of using biometric employee identification for time and attendance. Most notably, biometric technology has proven to:

 

  • be a more affordable alternative to expensive wall mounted time clocks
  • eliminate “buddy punching” resulting in a more productive work force
  • reduce payroll inflation and payroll error rates
  • be more secure and efficient than a PIN or ID card

Recently, we teamed up with Fujitsu to offer an educational webinar to our healthcare community about the benefits of palm vein biometric employee identification as a workforce management tool including:

  • the problems with traditional punch options
  • introduction to our RightPunch™ PC-based biometric time clock
  • the architecture and process flow of RightPunch™
  • advantages of using Fujitsu’s palm vein biometric modality
  • advantages of using biometrics for employee ID
  • case studies of successful deployments for our RightPunch™ biometric time clock

To view a copy of this webinar, please click on this link or visit Fujitsu’s Web site for more information on their “PalmSecure for Healthcare Webinar Series.”

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1
Feb/12

February #biometricchat announced — #Biometrics in Workforce Management – Join us on 02/09 at 11am EST

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The February edition of #biometricchat will discuss using biometrics for employee identification in workforce managament

February biometric chat

When: February 9, 2012

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 for employee identification in workforce management

Topics: Advantages of using biometrics, ROI metrics, common misunderstandings of biometrics, future trends

We took a temporary hiatus in January, but we are back in February with a fresh new subject to discuss on the monthly #biometricchat – biometrics in workforce management. Happy to announce that this month’s guest for the chat will be Scott Barker, a product marketing manager with Kronos, Inc. (@Kronosinc on Twitter) who will be answering questions about the applications of biometric employee identification in workforce management, specifically:

1. Metrics that businesses can use to measure their ROI after investing in biometric employee identification
2. Common misunderstandings about biometric technology
3. Future trends for biometrics  in workforce management
4. Advantages of using biometrics

Just in case you are interested in participating but are new to Tweet chats, please read this post which outlines the instructions and procedures. We hope that you will join us for the discussion, and please spread the word among your colleagues and friends.

Do you have any questions that you would like to ask Scott? Please send them to: john@m2sys.com or come prepared with your questions, comments and feedback on Thursday, February the ninth at 11am EST.

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21
Jan/12

Is that the Right Patient?

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Today, we welcome a guest post from Iatric Systems.

 

Meaningful Use brings increased utilization of electronic records, providing instant access to patients’ medical information – which is a great thing. It also brings the heightened chance for error in patient identification and the subsequent disaster that creates. The ability to select the correct patient and verify their identity based on their prior visit medical record demographics from the health information system becomes more important than ever before. Misidentification at the point of entry creates major problems throughout the life of the patient’s account.  First and foremost is the contamination of the patient’s medical chart and the impact incorrect medical information could present to the patient. We could contend that cleaning up incorrect patient information was in some ways easier when everything was paper-based compared to what it will be with electronic records.

The HIPAA impact of sharing the incorrectly selected patient’s information with the wrong patient or patient’s family also looms on the horizon. What if the patient who the record really belongs to shows up for care during this event? If the error goes unnoticed, the backend ramifications include billing the wrong insurance company and incorrect data going out to multiple places resulting in more work to correct the error and rebill the correct payer. If the patient finds out you selected the wrong patient for their care episode, how does that impact their perception of the hospital and level of competent care they can expect?

Many factors impact the incorrect selection of a patient, including the HIS system, staff carelessness or patients providing incorrect information during the admitting process. A common error is the patient changing their last name since the last visit, thus creating a new MPI number that does not include the patient’s vital past medical history.

Another area of concern is medical identify theft. Over 14 million people have become victims of identity theft this year alone. Medical identify theft is the fastest growing aspect of identify theft. What ramifications can you expect if your hospital provides care to a patient who used a stolen medical identify for treatment? Both a contaminated medical record that may impact the care of both patients and a financial loss when the payor denies payment may result.

Never before has selecting the correct patient at registration been more important. Our current method of asking for a driver’s license to verify identity is no longer a guarantee. Hospitals need to look at new methods to make sure that the patient is correct. Biometrics is one possibility that I have felt is an effective solution for years. Patients, for the most part, show up in the hospital with a finger, palm or iris that could be used to validate the patient’s identify. Patients that arrive unconscious pose another level of concern.

What better community service could a hospital provide than assuring their patients that their identify will be protected by installing biometric technology? Biometric technology could also assist with the Red Flag regulation. Providing patients an easy way to establish identify by hosting health fairs to register their biometric identify in advance of care is both a community service and improves each patient’s medical safety.

Iatric Systems

Kay Jackson

Kay Jackson is Manager of Software Certification, Compliance and Financial at Iatric Systems. Iatric Systems provides solutions for Meaningful Use including a Meaningful Use Manager Dashboard, Public Health Interfaces, Patient Portal, CPOE, Patient Discharge instructions and Clinical Document Exchange.

You can follow Iatric Systems on Twitter: @IatricSystems
You can also find them on LinkedIn


 

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10
Jan/12

University of Maine Deploys @M2SYS Palm Vein Scanners for Student Check-In at Dining Halls

by under Comments On Recent Biometric News Stories, Retail Point Of Sale, Vascular Biometrics
Palm vein scanners and multi-biometric software to eliminate students sharing meal plans

The University of Maine

Today we announced that the University of Maine has deployed the M2SYS palm vein scanner with our Hybrid Bio Snap-On™ Platform and Hybrid Bio-Hyperpliance Multi-Biometric Identification Matching Server software for student check-in at their on-campus dining halls. The goal for the deployment is to use the palm vein scanner to more effectively track dining hall traffic and eliminate shared cards where students share their meal plans at a price of $4,100 per academic year.

University of Maine officials chose the comprehensive M2SYS Hybrid Bio-SnapOn™ solution because of the fact that it instantly interfaced with their dining hall lunch line point-of-service (POS) software without any code level development on their part. In addition, due to the large size of their student enrollment database and their decision to deploy the palm vein scanner as their biometric hardware of choice, the University also chose to deploy Bio-Hyperpliance™ which is a scalable, hyper-threaded multi-biometric matching server designed to increase matching speeds and boost convenience for large scale deployments.

We are starting to see more and more Universities using the M2SYS palm vein scanner and other biometric identification (finger vein, fingerprint) on their campuses to help increase efficiency, reduce expenses and establish more accountability in areas like employee workforce management and student dining hall lunch line POS. As more Universities across the country catch on to the benefits of using biometrics for identification, we expect this growth to continue.

For a copy of the news release please click here.

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