New HIMSS Analytics Essentials Brief Highlights Biometric Security Initiatives Across Healthcare

HIMSS Analytics has released its 2016 Essentials Brief: Security Study - Biometrics, which provides a high level view of how healthcare organizations are approaching the use of biometric solutions for security purposes across their organization. Essential Briefs are market research studies focused on identifying salient topics in the healthcare IT space that highlight mind share, market share and market opportunity of specific healthcare software technologies.

As healthcare organizations and providers have moved from the old paper standard to the new electronic world, it has come with some challenges and dangers never before encountered. With the surge in IT adoption it has seemed that data security was somewhat of an afterthought. Now organizations are scrambling to protect their data, their organization, and most importantly their patient population. Biometric solutions used for security purposes is beginning to pick up momentum across the healthcare space. Primarily used for medication dispensing and employee identification, there are additional technologies that can be leveraged to better secure access to patient records and data sources.

"The level of security breaches organizations are experiencing, from ransomware attacks to stolen or misplaced laptops, has grown significantly over the last three years surpassing the second most targeted entity, the U.S. government," says HIMSS Analytics Director of Research, Brendan FitzGerald. "Organizations now understand the need for constant vigilance and are looking for solutions to fit their needs. Biometrics can certainly help secure endpoints and while fingerprints identification is the most widely used technology there are others that may develop substantially such as palm print recognition and vascular palm/vein pattern recognition over the next few years."

The 2016 Essentials Brief: Security Study - Biometrics offers insight from 90 CTOs, CIOs, CISOs and VPs and Managers of IT on their current approach toward biometric solutions. Additional insight is provided through data from HIMSS Analytics LOGIC?, the most comprehensive and intuitive global market intelligence tool in healthcare IT. LOGIC provides adoption rates on specific security technologies which could help provide clarity on the healthcare security marketplace.

Highlights of the 2016 study include:

• Current and future adoption of biometric solutions
• Vendor snapshot for specific biometric solution platforms
• Study respondent drivers around biometric solutions
• Insight into next generation security solutions, such as Direct Secure Messaging (DSM), Next Generation Fire Walls and Blockchain

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