Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a pair of medical vendors are calling for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss a putative class action against them regarding possible unlawful biometric scanning of employees, the Cook County Record reports. Two workers at two hospitals in Northwestern's system are claiming Northwestern violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by not disclosing or obtaining consent for the sharing of fingerprint scans with Omnicell and Becton Dickinson, which provide the biometric software Northwestern employees use to access medication storage. Omnicell and Becton Dickinson were included in the suit for not notifying the plaintiffs how long their data would be stored or for what reason. The defendants are arguing the case be thrown out because the biometric law does not extend to the health care field.
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