A leading company providing user authentication solutions in healthcare is taking a step into patient authentication applications through its acquisition of a provider of biometric patient identification technology.

Imprivata Inc., Lexington, Mass., has acquired Tampa, Fla.-based HT Systems, which develops and markets palm vein-based biometric patient identification systems.

Company Recognized for Best-In-Class in the Strategy and Delivery of its Leading Authentication, Access Management, and Secure Communications Solutions to Hospitals

As deaths involving prescription opioids as deaths involving prescription opioids increase, prescribers look toward other ways to curb patient overdoses. One fairly new solution in the medical community is to prescribe controlled substances electronically, but just how far along is this revolutionary approach, and will it help combat the evergrowing epidemic in the country?

Surescripts processed 6.5 billion health data transactions in 2014, a feat that the network's officials say marks a major digital transformation of U.S. healthcare.

The Internet of Things (IoT) holds tremendous promise in healthcare, potentially enabling a digital health revolution and support the future of care delivery.

The healthcare industry is undergoing a “complete revolution,” based on all the data about our health and wellness that is being collected on a daily basis, according to Kurt Roemer, chief security strategist at Citrix, global provider of server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service and cloud computing technologies.

As an emergency room physician at a Boston teaching hospital, I see the devastation the opiate epidemic wreaks on families and communities. As the chief medical officer of a healthcare technology company, I know what a powerful weapon technology can be in fighting this scourge. But while policymakers are responding to the epidemic, they may not be using all of the technology tools at their disposal.