Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

Julie Dooling, a director at American Health Information Management Association Congress is considering whether to allow regulators to fund work on developing a national unique patient identifier - an ...

The government has launched an eight-week consultation on its digital ID scheme, aiming to seek views on how its digital identity system will be shaped.

Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...

Continuously advancing information technology enables providers to share a patient’s medical data across the continuum of care. However, digitally sharing sensitive health information raises the risk ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The administration pushed the deadline for adopting a new identifier for non-governmental organizations receiving funds from the ...

The General Services Administration (GSA), an agency of the U.S. government designed to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies, has announced that all companies and entities ...

I'm working on a school project which involves message passing between various software entities (nodes in an adhoc wireless network). Each is issued a UUID to uniquely identify itself within this ...

If you are worried about your privacy online and being tracked by big corporations you might be interested in more about Browser Fingerprinting. A tracking method that collects detailed information ...