Amazon expands its palm biometric payment to healthcare

Amazon is one of the major companies to introduce palm biometric payment and the e-commerce giant is now expanding the system to healthcare.

The Amazon One biometric authentication system was first introduced at Amazon Go cashierless retail stores in Seattle before it was deployed to the Whole Foods grocery chain. Now, Amazon One will be implemented at NYU Langone Health facilities.

It will be the palm-scanning platform’s first application in healthcare with Amazon One deployed across the six hospitals and more than 320 outpatient centers that NYU Langone operates. NYU Langone patients will be able to check in for appointments using Amazon One.

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Amazon is one of the major companies to introduce palm biometric payment and the e-commerce giant is now expanding the system to healthcare.

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

Maybe it'll help with fraud.

I still don't like or trust Pay-with-Palm, and to the extent possible, avoid the checkout line at WF that has it right next to the cc/dc payment device. The light from it illuminates at least part of one's hand, plus the cc/dc when using the adjacent cc/dc payment device. I do the best I can to shield my palm, and people look at me funny

It's bad enough that everything I buy at WF shows up on my Amazon Prime account as/in an "order" [sigh]

At least "they" know I'm eating reasonably healthy, but I don't need their healthcare

 

[Tall Timbers]

I like that there are options, unless something new becomes the only option. I have mixed feelings about biometrics... don't really trust them yet and figure once someone's biometric data is stolen you can't undo that ever, although, biometric identifiers do change as you age, I at least think.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I like that there are options, unless something new becomes the only option. I have mixed feelings about biometrics... don't really trust them yet and figure once someone's biometric data is stolen you can't undo that ever, although, biometric identifiers do change as you age, I at least think.

Palmprints are like fingerprints . . . unique and always identifiable. Ditto foot prints, like on some birth certificates.

Stuff can happen or be done to obliterate, obscure, or add scars, etc., but in the absence of sufficient artificial change, once printed and in a system, the print(s) can be matched to the person. The prints of "identical twins" are not identical.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Palmprints are like fingerprints . . . unique and always identifiable. Ditto foot prints, like on some birth certificates.

I think I spent two full semesters mastering knowledge of fingerprints. A lot of good that knowledge is now...

The systems built into devices to identify our biometrics have a lot of room for improvement.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I think I spent two full semesters mastering knowledge of fingerprints. A lot of good that knowledge is now...

The systems built into devices to identify our biometrics have a lot of room for improvement.

Academy. And CEUs. And the wonderful, patient people at the FP lab