BIO-key(R) Continues to Expand Footprint in the Healthcare

WALL, NJ--(Marketwired - Sep 3, 2014) - BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), a leader in fingerprint biometric identification technologies, cloud-based mobile credentialing and identity verification solutions, today reported the company added three additional eye care center customers, Eyecare Medical, Portland, ME, Hollingshead Eye Center, Boise, Idaho and I Care San Antonio in Texas. With the addition of these three new customers, BIO-key now provides fingerprint authentication solutions for 57 eye care centers throughout the U.S. BIO-key is delivering this capability through our partners Medflow and Davlong, both of which have a strong presence in the eye care market.

"Our customers recognized that entering a password each time they updated a patient record was cumbersome and negatively impacted their workflow," stated Jim Messier, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Medflow. "When we demonstrate how fast they can authenticate using BIO-key technology; most are eager to eliminate the use of passwords in favor of using their biometric."

The federal government has mandated the universal adoption of electronic health records for today's healthcare providers. The doctors, nurses and assistants affected are all benefiting from the streamlined and paperless electronic process. Yet, there is one area that offers opportunity for improvement: the authentication process. Healthcare professionals are required to remember and enter lengthy, sophisticated passwords, every time they update a patient record, as part of the authentication process. During a typical day, providers enter their password dozens of times, and in the hospital pharmacy we have seen this number reach as high as two hundred times. Passwords are extremely vulnerable to compromise and increase risk for the entire organization. When healthcare organizations replace cumbersome authentication methods, such as passwords, with BIO-key one touch fingerprint ID, they enhance security, improve workflow, reduce stress, meet compliance requirements and generate additional revenue by optimizing patient interactions.

"We believe the recent wins validate our investment in the healthcare market at all levels as we grow our sales through strategic partners to hospitals, clinics and physician practices. We recently added two new healthcare sales resources in support of our partners that have a significant presence in the EMR/EHR space," stated Mike DePasquale, BIO-key's Chairman and CEO. "Together with Medflow and Davlong we've developed a lengthy list of customers and testimonials; therefore the next step includes leveraging that success by making every potential prospect aware of the opportunity to improve their security and workflow."

BIO-key is an emerging leader in fingerprint authentication for healthcare institutions and medical practitioners as the company provides biometric authentication solutions for leading hospitals, clinics, private medical practices and blood centers. 

About BIO-key 
BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops and delivers advanced identification solutions to commercial and government enterprises, integrators, and custom application developers. BIO-key's award winning, high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise applications. Our solutions are used in local embedded OEM products as well as some of the world's largest identification deployments to improve security, guarantee identity, and help reduce identity theft. BIO-key's technology is offered directly or by market leading partners around the world. (http://www.bio-key.com)

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