WALL, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced that BIO-key will be presenting at the Annual SafeTrace User Group Meeting being held on May 5-6 at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050509/BIOKEYLOGO)

SafeTrace is a Vein-to-Vein® tracking solution for blood centers and hospitals, from donor recruitment and collection to final transfusion. More than fifty representatives from the SafeTrace user community are expected to attend this annual meeting. At the request of the SafeTrace user group, Jim Sullivan, BIO-key’s Director of Sales, will be presenting on how BIO-key’s convenient, secure fingerprint biometric solutions are being used in blood centers and hospitals nationwide to automate donor, patient and staff identification.

The SafeTrace user meeting is a forum to discuss industry standards and trends in the blood industry. “We cover the whole gambit, from the time a donor is initially contacted to the distribution of the blood,” stated Mary Plut, President, SafeTrace Users Group. “Ensuring the safety, purity, potency and the identity of the blood supply is the common goal of our organization,” she added.

BIO-key’s fingerprint biometric software, the preferred identification technology deployed at blood centers and hospitals across the US, was recognized by SC Magazine as the 2009 Industry Innovator in Biometrics. “Our scalable and easy to implement identity solutions are the perfect choice for blood collection organizations looking to reduce cost by streamlining the process of accurately identifying donors,” said Mike DePasquale, president and CEO of BIO-key International. “We offer a full suite of donor ID solutions to meet the requirements of blood centers of any size that can be quickly integrated into existing applications or run as standalone identity solutions.”

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)

SOURCE BIO-key International, Inc.