NYU Langone to use Amazon palm-scanning technology
Amazon is deploying its Amazon One contactless palm-scanning technology at NYU Langone Health in what the company says is its largest third-party deployment of the technology and first such deployment in a health care setting.
Patients at NYU Langone Health facilities will have the option to confirm their identity at check-in by hovering their hand over the Amazon One device, which operates on Amazon Web Services cloud-based technology.
Amazon One combines palm and vein imagery for biometric matching and has an accuracy rate of 99.9999 percent and recognition time of less than one second, according to Amazon.
Patients can sign up for the check-in service through the NYU Langone Health app using an Apple or Android mobile device or at a kiosk inside the health care facility.
Amazon One is used solely for identity authentication and does not store or access health information.
The palm reader is expected to be rolled out across NYU Langone Health this year.
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Fujifilm and Tiger Health enter digital pathology collaboration
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corp. has announced that it is partnering with the hybrid cloud-solutions provider Tiger Health Technology to address storage-related challenges in digital pathology and enhance management of the data lifecycle.
The collaboration is intended to streamline the management and accessibility of digital pathology data in Fujifilm’s Synapse Pathology picture archiving and communication system.
“This partnership will enable the full integration of all digital pathology content into a health care organization’s vendor neutral archive, addressing any potential challenges with proprietary file format integrations,” according to a press release from Fujifilm.
The companies also plan to collaborate on developing other solutions for facilitating wider adoption of digital pathology.
Quest Diagnostics to employ Google Cloud functionality
Quest Diagnostics and Google Cloud have entered an agreement in which Quest will use Google Cloud’s data analytics and generative artificial intelligence technologies to streamline its data management and personalize patient and provider encounters.
Under the collaboration, Quest will use the Google Agentspace platform, which employs generative AI to connect employees and customers with enterprise data and automate complex tasks via customizable AI agents.
“The parties will also explore the use of gen AI in multiple areas, including improving patient engagement by helping patients and consumers glean personalized health insights from their laboratory data and empowering physicians with laboratory insights and other data to enhance care for the individual patient,” according to a press release from Quest Diagnostics.
Dr. Aller practices clinical informatics in Southern California. He can be reached at rayaller@gmail.com. Dennis Winsten is founder of Dennis Winsten & Associates, Healthcare Systems Consultants. He can be reached at dennis.winsten@gmail.com.