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Essentials Brief: 2016 Security - Biometrics Study
Published December 6, 2016

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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