"Identity Management in Health Care" is the name of the upcoming teleconference hosted by International Biometric Group (IBG). The event will take place at 1:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, April 12th, 2007. The role of identity management and biometrics in government health care programs will be discussed.

    Consultant Bridget Driscoll will discuss in this teleconference the initiatives and trends seen in state-wide healthcare programs such as Medical Management Information System (MMIS) programs. Ms. Driscoll will talk about:

-   Common biometric applications in healthcare
-   Market attributes of biometrics in healthcare
-   Impact of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
-   A case study of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's Medicaid Access Card Project
-   Privacy considerations of healthcare identity management systems

    International Biometric Group, LLC is a company that providies a broad range of services to government and private sector clients. BG offers business and technical expertise in biometrics for large-scale identification, network security, transaction systems, and access control.
The company has extensive hands-on experience with a wide range of biometric hardware and software solutions, including fingerprint, AFIS, face recognition, hand geometry, iris recognition, multimodal systems, and emerging biometrics. IBG is completely vendor-independent and technology-neutral.  IBG leverages real-world, hands-on experience with multiple biometrics - including fingerprint, face, and iris systems - to design, integrate, and deploy custom ID systems, access control,  IT security, smart card, and transportation solutions.

    The company offers a wide range of technology capabilities, leveraging years of experience in building and deploying effective biometric solutions. IBG reduces the complexity of integrating biometrics into existing applications, infrastructures, and backend systems. Just as importantly, IBG staff has extensive non-biometric design and development experience. Instead of viewing every problem from an entirely "biometric" perspective, IBG provides non-biometric expertise in programming and application development, cryptography, systems integration, and network infrastructure. IBG's core capabilities enable development of solutions for every biometric application.

They have the following responsabilities:

    * Integrate and support five separate biometric matchers supporting over 5m enrollments
    *  Design, develop, integrate, test, and deploy multimodal biometric system   
    * Design and implement user interface and reporting capabilities
    * Build custom matcher interfaces to support watchlist and filter-based identification capabilities
    * Integrate quality tools for each modality
    * Support system onsite

If you are interested to participate in this teleconference, visit www.biometricgroup.com/events_conferences.html. For more information, or to learn about IBG's research, consulting, and integration services visit http://www.biometricgroup.com/