Facilities in the health care industry are increasingly adding iris scanning systems in an effort to improve patient safety and cut down on medical fraud, reports Bloomberg. The leading players in this field, Safran SA, Fujitsu Ltd., AOptix Technology Inc. and M2Sys Technology say that health care providers want the technology not just to make [...]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front [...]

Evolis released Elypso, a desktop card printer that offers features for instant issuance in one model: manual card feeding, front-desk operations, dual-sided printing and encoding for magnetic stripe, contact and contactless chip card. Evolis designed Elypso to match the performances of Primacy with the smaller footprint of Zenius. This solution delivers personalized cards over the [...]

Ingersoll Rand announced the debut of its new HandPunch GT-400 time and attendance terminal that lets employees clock in with the same card used to enter their building facilities. The MTR-G embedded reader module provides compatibility with aptiQ smart credentials, which provides advanced MIFARE Classic and MIFARE DESFire EV1 encryption, to provide improved security. It [...]

Stanley Security Solutions announced its partnership with EyeLock Inc., a provider of iris-based identity authentication solutions. EyeLock provides a suite of iris-based identity authentication solutions as an added differentiator to Stanley’s existing security solutions. The EyeLock suite enables Stanley to focus on the financial services, banking, health care, industrial, education and government sectors. EyeLock’s access [...]

Memorial Healthcare in Shiawassee County, Mich., deployed a Wi-Fi-based RFID staff safety alert and wireless temperature monitoring solution from Ekahau Inc. to improve its staff and patient safety. The hospital’s security teams leverage the system’s real-time visibility into staff locations during emergencies to reduce response times to duress incidents logged by the various staff working [...]

LifeMed ID announced the launch of the SecureReg product at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans. SecureReg delivers patient identity, patient workflow, health IT interoperability and continuity of care for health care providers. LifeMed ID’s platform is designed to prevent duplicate medical records and overlays, connecting disparate health IT systems and enabling portability of patient records. [...]