ThirdFactor | Missouri hospital implements biometric time and attendance system

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Fujitsu Frontech North America, a supplier of biometric products and services, has announced that Missouri-based Bates County Memorial Hospital has successfully incorporated Fujitsu’s PalmSecure vascular scanner into their time and attendance tracking system.

The hospital already had a biometric time and attendance solution in place that utilized fingerprints rather than palm vein scans.

The switch was made due to concerns over hygiene as well as improvements in the security of the authentication. PalmSecure is a more hygienic solution due to its contactless capabilities wherein a picture is taken of a user’s palm via near-infrared light and doesn’t require any contact with a machine.

With a fingerprint solution, however, hospital personnel were required to push their unprotected finger onto a scanning plate that every other hospital employee had previously used in the same fashion.

Exostar adds OTP to ID lineup

Exostar expanded its Managed Access Gateway identity management service offering to accept one-time password hardware tokens.

The gateway uses the Exostar-issued hardware tokens, as well as other forms of credentials such as basic level of assurance and medium level of assurance public-key infrastructure certificates and Common Access Cards, to control access to Exostar and other service provider applications connected to the Exostar Identity Hub.

PKI at the door without an overhaul

HID Global demonstrated its PKI at the door solution that leverages existing physical access control infrastructures at the Smart Card Alliance Government Conference. The solution replaces intermediary pieces of an access control system to enable the higher-security transaction, says Nathan Cummings, director of integration and application for OEM channels at HID.

OpenTrust implements all-in one security card solution

OpenTrust, a Next-Gen IT security software publisher, announced that it has partnered with a global corporate and investment banking provider to implement an all-in-one solution for one user to log on to multiple work stations using smart cards.

BIO-key reports near-perfect performance testing results

BIO-key International announced the results of tests performed on its biometric software and matching algorithm at a hospital over the past three months.

The results, which included 251,447 attempts to use biometrics for login to the testing system, ranked between 99.34% and 100% accuracy with zero false matches. This is a near 100% true accept rate and one staff member that logged in 5,999 in November without a single rejection.

Indian state replacing ration cards with biometric smart cards

The government in Orissa, a state on the East coast of India, has introduced biometric smart cards to replace ration cards that will be used in a pilot with its citizens in the Rayagada district, according to a SiFy article. The new program was developed in a joint effort between the Orissa government and the United Nations World Food Program in hopes of improving the Targeted Public Distribution System.

Cubic's Tri-Reader 3 approved for open fare payments

Cubic Transportation Systems’ Tri-Reader 3 has been approved by the top four bank card brands to process their contactless EMV cards for use in public transit systems.

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