IdenTrust announced it is a participant in the DirectTrust Partnership for Patients Program that aims to make it easier for patients and health care consumers to securely share personal health information; Evolis and CPI Card Group have extended their partnership to provide U.S. banks with the EMV-capable instant card issuance solutions; Dominion Resources Inc. selected AMAG Technology’s Symmetry Access Control System to secure its offices, plant and operations facilities in Virginia and several other states; Zwipe announced the launch of Zwipe Access 2.0.

As billions of new devices join the Internet of Things, keeping customer data secure becomes both more critical and more difficult. To meet the challenge, it is essential to view security as identity-centric. Roles change as an employee or customer moves throughout an organization and it’s important to maintain a single identity for an individual to ensure a foundation, through correct access and authorization management, that can support robust security.

The Cloud Security Alliance released a report looking at identity trends in the enterprise. While weak identity and access management is a concern, enterprises are starting to bolster these systems and administer policies that better protect networks and applications.

It’s been almost a decade since the Carolinas HealthCare System deployed a patient-matching biometric program that uses palm vein scanning and the health care provider has experienced great success with the modality. The health care provider reports a 70% reduction in check-in time, and 99.9% of its patients are correctly matched to their electronic health records.

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the Spring 2016 Regarding ID magazine. Highlights include: physical access control goes to the cloud, DOD web site kills the password and states speeding toward mobile driver licenses.

Multi-factor authentication for e-prescribing controlled substances has been a long time coming. The feds passed the regulations years ago but physicians are just starting to comply as confusion over the mandate persists.

The Smart Card Alliance recommends that health care provider use the EMV infrastructure for identity authentication to stop fraud. The alliance released a white paper detailing how converging EMV and health care identity could reduce costs and complexity for providers while reducing fraud.