Identifying healthcare workers for both access to patient records, as well as for providing patient services is critical to security, streamlining care and billing. As hospitals and other clinical settings have migrated to a dependency upon computerized patient care, the need to digitally identify healthcare professionals has become paramount. The use of a physical signature to authorize or signify responsibility for delivery of healthcare services has mostly given way to a point and click, or a password. More Info

Mark Basile, an Axius Healthcare Group principal and one of the original founding directors of the eHealth Initiative, a Washington DC based organization whose members span health and hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, health insurers and national provider networks, presented his viewpoint on biometrics and healthcare, believes that issues of fraud and compliance are the driving factors behind adoption of biometrics in the healthcare industry. More Info

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