BIO-key Biometric Authentication for Healthcare Featured by Microsoft Plus Seven Additional Partners at HIMSS 2016

WALL, NJ--(Marketwired - Feb 29, 2016) - BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), an innovative provider of strong, interoperable biometric authentication solutions, announced that ten of the company's healthcare partners will be highlighting BIO-key solutions at the HIMSS 2016 event February 29^th - March 4^th, to be held at the Sands Conference Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 35,000 healthcare IT professionals will attend the four day educational and networking event.

Microsoft's Stephen Rose, Health and Life Science Industry Lead, will feature BIO-key's technology during his over-subscribed session "Holograms, Wearables and Future Technology: How Trends in Technology are Changing the Face of Patient Care," held in Room 103 on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, from 11:15am - 12:15pm. Additionally, BIO-key's healthcare partner program continues to expand, as our solutions will be highlighted at our partners' and customers' booths: Aesynt, now part of Omnicell (#5126 & #11954-3), Allscripts (#2612), Aventura (#1324), Caradigm (#5427), HealthCast (#6054), IBM (#5932) and KSI Keyboards (#7031). BIO-key also offers DEA EPCS-compliant authentication modules for Epic (#4432) and Allscripts SCM and TouchWorks, as well as Lumidigm® biometric readers from HID Global (#11941).

BIO-key's ID Director software has a strong track record with customers who want to add a right-sized authentication solution to Epic, Allscripts, and other EHR platforms, because of its superior NIST accuracy results, simplified installation processes, and cloud-ready operational management features. At this year's HIMSS event, the company will be introducing a new BIO-key branded, high-quality FIPS-compliant fingerprint reader for healthcare, at a breakthrough price for an EPCS-compliant scanner. One of the leading healthcare organizations in New Jersey was the first customer for this FIPS-201-compliant reader, ideally suited for two-factor authentication for EPCS. Leading healthcare organizations are replacing cumbersome authentication processes that are costly, hard to manage and deter workflow with BIO-key's cost-efficient, easy to use, and compliant biometric platform.