Increasing Use of Sensors in Wireless Devices Drives the Global Silicon-Based Fingerprint Sensors Market, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

San Jose, California (PRWEB) September 24, 2012

Follow us on LinkedIn Biometrics is a technique to identify one or more individuals by way of physiological traits or behavioral characteristics. Of the several techniques available such as hand geometry, iris/retinal scan, signature identification, keystroke dynamics/typing rhythms, face and voice recognition, fingerprinting is the most popular. The role of fingerprint authentication has grown considerably due to the rapid advancements in Internet technology and a significant increase in the number of web users. The use of passwords, which were earlier used widely for storing and accessing personal data on the web, is no longer a safer option. In order to address these security flaws, security specialists are constantly working towards developing fingerprint security systems for ensuring an extremely high level of accuracy during identification. Also, due to the introduction of a range of laptop PCs and wireless devices, there has been tremendous growth in the sharing and accessing of electronic data. This has led to the development of various applications for securing, storing, and transmitting such data.

The active involvement by major players and the increasing spend on R&D for the past several years have witnessed the introduction of advanced silicon-based fingerprint sensor products. Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) are widely used in law enforcement agencies around the world, where the collected fingerprints are matched against local, state, regional and/or national fingerprint databases. Healthcare industry is also a major user of AFIS for the identification of patients. Technological developments such as better matching capabilities and enhanced computing power have resulted in the expansion of AFIS to private sector enterprises.

Growth in social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook is increasing the demand for a user-friendly and secure mechanism for managing the users digital identity. Silicon-based fingerprint sensors are expected to hold significant potential in maintaining digital identities in cloud-based computing infrastructure. In the coming years, more services are expected to be accessed and aggregated via personalization and authentication events using sensors. Users are expected to increasingly use services such as Microsoft Live ID, Twitter API, OpenID, Facebook Connect, and Google ID for securely connecting the user to their personal accounts and other websites on the Internet.

As stated by the new market research report on Silicon-Based Fingerprint Sensors, Asia-Pacific represents the largest regional market in terms of value sales. Japan is projected to be the fastest growing market with a CAGR of about 19.1% over the analysis period, closely followed by the Asia-Pacific region. Localization of software is expected to drive growth in European and Asian regions, particularly in high growth markets such as China. Advanced swipe sensors, due to its lower form factor, are expected to be employed increasingly in devices such as mobile phones, laptops, and tablets PCs, among others. The ongoing advancements, mostly directed towards miniaturization of sensors, have resulted in lowering of production costs as well as enabling the application of sensors in a wider range of devices. Fingerprint technology is expected to remain as a market leader in the coming years mainly due to ease-of-use and cost factor.

Major players in the global marketplace include Atmel Corporation, AuthenTec Inc., Fingerprint Cards AB, Fujitsu Limited, Hangzhou Synochip Technologies Co. Ltd., IDEX ASA, Jiangsu Winch Corp. Ltd., Validity Sensors Inc., among others.

The research report titled Silicon-Based Fingerprint Sensors: A Global Strategic Business Report announced by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues, company profiles, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities. The report provides annual sales estimates and projections in US$ million for Silicon-Based Fingerprint Sensors for the years 2009 through 2018 for the following geographic markets – US, Canada, Japan, Europe, (France, Germany, UK, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Latin America. Key segments analyzed include Swipe Sensors and Area Sensors, while key end-use segments analyzed in the report include Notebook PC, Physical Access, and Wireless.

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http://www.strategyr.com/Silicon_Based_Fingerprint_Sensors_Market_Report.asp

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Medical Review Business Process Outsourcing Increasing Among Healthcare Payer Organizations

Portland, OR (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

Among health insurance entities, including health plans, medical management companies and third-party administrators (TPAs), a continuing objective is to reduce costs, improve quality, and meet rigorous accreditation and regulatory compliance standards. This challenge is especially true when it comes to reviewing the medical necessity of service requests, including pre-authorizations as well as member and provider appeals.

AllMed Healthcare Managements recent webinar on physician review business process outsourcing (BPO) provided an excellent example of how payer organizations are increasingly turning to specialty BPO organizations like IROs and delegating medical decision making functions that used to be done by internal medical staff. In presenting this example of BPO innovation, AllMed cited several important reasons why health plans are moving in this direction. In particular, physician review business process outsourcing allows health plans to reduce costs, scale their resources up and down with variable volumes, and allocate their medical directors to higher value-added tasks.

Health plan medical directors are often called upon to review pre-authorization and appeals requests, which reduces the time they can devote to the oversight of quality, compliance and clinical operations functions, said Andrew G. Rowe, CEO of AllMed. Given the compensation levels of these professionals, it makes more sense to outsource routine medical review tasks and redeploy medical directors where their higher-level expertise is of most value to the organization.

Given this shift in thinking about how best to utilize internal medical staff, leading IROs have evolved and can now function as full service business process outsourcing partners for a health plan as it relates to medical decision making. High-performance IROs have developed an integrated portfolio of services that are delivered through web-based technology platforms. The IRO can now reduce and/or balance workloads inside the health plan, lowering costs and improving productivity in ways not possible before, Rowe added.

One such plan that recognizes this is Cambia Health Solutions, which operates BlueCross and/or BlueShield health plans in four western states, serving nearly 2.5 million members. The Regence affiliated companies have fully integrated their IRO (AllMed) into their clinical decision-making operations as a BPO partner. It relies on the company for outsourcing of all physician review functions, including first-level pre-authorizations and specialty-matched appeals.

An outsourcing partner like AllMed is a really good fit for us, said Csaba Mera, MD, Executive Medical Director of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. It has a large panel of physicians available for specialty-matched case reviews through a secure web portal, which improves our turnaround time on pre-authorizations and appeals. This gives our medical directors more freedom to focus on higher-level tasks such as medical policy development, provider services support and implementation of required regulatory programs.

But choosing the right IRO partner requires solid due-diligence, Mera would say, confirming that the partner needs to bring together all the cross-functional disciplines and expertise in physician recruiting, credentialing, training, quality assurance and compliance. Further, the full-service IRO should offer a solution that is highly optimized and integrated into the health plans clinical decision-making workflows. In the end, such a solution must be faster, better, and cheaper than what a health plan can develop and maintain on its own, he added.

Rowe outlined the technology capabilities and platform a payer should look for in looking for an IRO to partner with. These include:

Medical Review Business Process Outsourcing Increasing Among Healthcare Payer Organizations