Charles Brett reports: Patientory and IrisGuard are collaborating to use iris-recognition to address patient identity challenges across the healthcare system to deliver greater clinical, financial, and administrative efficiencies. Their plan is to combine leading iris biometric technology and the healthcare focused PTOYNet blockchain network to effect enhanced security measures. The HIPAA-compliant Patientory App, which already…
Category: Healthcare
How your health information is sold and turned into ‘risk scores’
Mohana Ravindranath reports: Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without patient consent and with little regulation of the kinds of personal information used to create the scores. While the data collection is aimed at helping doctors make more informed…
FL: Multiple students hospitalized after 14-year-old brings prescription drugs to school
Julie Salomone reports: Multiple students in Bradenton were in the hospital Friday after one of them brought prescription drugs to school that morning, authorities say. Deputies say a 14-year-old gave some of the drugs to his classmates at Horizon’s Academy. […] Deputies say the student brought the drugs from his home, but have not specified…
The Use of Smart Speakers in Healthcare
Paulette Thomas writes: ….. Because of the unlimited capabilities of a smart speaker, healthcare providers are beginning to use these virtual assistants in pilot programs with patients in the hospital and home care settings and with other healthcare providers. Smart speakers can be used to remind a homebound patient to take scheduled medications or to…