Biometric Resource -- information about existing and cutting edge biometric technologies

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According to Robert Seliger, CEO of Andover, Mass. based Sentillion, healthcare uses fingerprint scanning for user authentication more than any other industry.* Healthcare’s abundant use of biometric authentication can be attributed in large part to the HIPAA security rule and the decrease in the cost of implementing biometrics. Additionally, healthcare organizations look to biometrics to decrease overall time spent to repeatedly logon to clinical information systems.

Given healthcare’s appetite for biometrics, it is advisable that informaticians stay informed about emerging biometric technologies as well as understand the pros and cons of the various biometric options. Western Carolina University has made this a little easier by hosting a web site that provides both general and specific information about biometric technologies.

http://et.wcu.edu/aidc/BioWebPages/Biometrics_Home.html[1].

General information about the history, current uses and future possibilities in biometrics are available from the home page as well as information about the technical aspects. These same categories of information along with vendor links are available for individual biometric technologies, for example iris scanning and signature identification. Possibly the most interesting component of the site is the review of emerging biometric technologies. It is here were one can learn that scientists are attempting to use body odor and body salinity as biometric identifiers. If reviewing all these areas of the web site leave questions unanswered, links to additional information are located on the home page.


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