by Didi Rankovic, Reclaim The Net:
Amazon’s biometric payment system makes a bold entry into healthcare, raising fresh concerns over privacy and data security.
Amazon’s biometric palm prints and vein imagery scanning technology incorporated into its Amazon One payments system has for the first expanded into the healthcare sector, with a mass-scale deployment in the NYU Langone Health system.
The use of Amazon One for patient check-ins is at this point optional in the initial six hospitals and more than 320 outpatient centers run by NYU Langone in New York.