New York City is looking to add smart chip technology that can be used in the city's municipal ID cards. The smart chips would enable the cards to store and spend money.
Approximately 33% of all denied hospital claims are associated with inaccurate patient identification, which costs the average hospital $1.5 million and the U.S. healthcare system more than $6 billion annually.
The Arizona Department of Transportation announced that its residents will need a new form of identification to pass through TSA screeners in the future.
In my last column I wrote about the “Human Factor” of access control and identification. I now recall several negative incidents that I experienced as a security director involving security staffs screening persons entering the lobbies of hospitals.
Enterprise card solutions can enable myriad business applications. One example: Identity cards allow Italians to share and use publicly available bicycles.In enterprise-wide identification card access systems, which came first –