Health smart cards - medical cards

SMART CARD SOFTWARE - CUSTOM

SC HEALTH

Quite a few companies, doctors and individuals approached us so far and inquired about smart card capabilities when used as an health card. The matter of fact is that smart cards are perfect media to be used as a health cards.

Smart cards are small, they fit everybody's pocket
Smart cards are very secure, can't be read, copied, manipulated, counterfeited or duplicated
Smart card protect privacy where needed
Smart cards are re-writable
Smart card can contain digital log with location, date, time, person's stamp to record every transaction
Smart card can contain digital prescriptions, no mistakes with handwriting, quantity or quality of medications
Smart health card could be used anywhere, on the street by medical emergency crew to quickly learn about allergies and treatments, even if injured person is un-capable to interact with anybody
Smart card can be set that certain profile of medical personnel can see only certain portion of card data
Insurance, administrative and personal ID data are available
Long sign ups at doctor's offices can be avoided, just insert card into the smart card reader
Only after doctor presents his own medical professional smart card, his card and patient's card verify each other. After cross-verification transactions can take place
Small and inexpensive balance reader can read emergency data any time, anywhere
Smart card could be used in hospital, county, town, state or better, whole country
Smart health cards speed up medical administration, put it in right format (HIPAA), process claims faster and more precisely
Smart cards save hundreds of millions in administration, insurance, public funding, government money
Smart health card is actively fighting medical fraud and critical errors saving money and lives
Smart health hard hardware is reasonably priced. Any PC can be set to read or read/write smart cards, there are portable readers, USB desktop readers, PIN pad readers, dual card readers...none break you budget

Plans are that in near future everybody will have smart health card in the pocket. Benefits to the individuals, insurance providers, health givers providers and Government are vast. Health Smart Cards save lives.

THE CONCEPT

There is much longer story why we don't already have Health Smart Cards in our pockets. It is not because of the technical reasons or cost of the system at all. It is more about politics, people resisting Smart Health cards fail to understand benefits such technology brings to the table. Smart cards would save countless lives if implemented. HealthONE smart card

Consider this: Germany has population of about 80 million people. Until smart cards were implemented every year about 50-60 thousand people were dying because of medical errors, mostly wrong prescriptions.

Sounds like awfully a lot of dead people and it really is! There were only about 5 to 6 thousands of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the same time, whole Germany. Now consider USA, population is 4 times bigger, smart health cards nowhere to be seen, you draw your own conclusions...

We would like to start somewhere and offer SCHEALTH card or USB plug. It has many benefits, many more capabilities to come as infrastructure adapts to it.

The cards maay be attractively printed in color. They can also be custom printed using your artwork advertising your business and carrying your message. At the same time cards, by design, smart cards are protected against tampering, they can't be copied or counterfeited in any way.

Did you know that whole Western Europe has a smart health card (Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia...), Taiwan, Puerto Rico...more.

It is the imperative that you protect your business and services best you can. The Smart Cards are ideal for that. Also, cards can be re-used again and again.

Xi Max reader by Xiring used Medical smart card massively in French health care system

THE PROOF AND SOLUTION

This is where BasicCard kicks in! It is a smart card perfect to be used in the Health care environment. Low cost is ideal for mass implementation, ideal memory sizes available, security mechanisms built-in, quickest time to market puts you in the driver's seat. We can take care about printing and corresponding hardware needs. You could easily have test runs in the field with few hundred or thousand cards while other smart card companies are still sweating to write their software.

And there is a proof! Right now Germany is working on their third generation health smart card that will replace all existing smart cards in use today. It suppose to be the most secure card on the market, strong encryption, ideal file structure and data handling, customized to be the health card of today and future. We are talking about 80 million cards here!

6-7 big smart card companies entered the race to provide that kind of solution. It is matter of money to win big order, technology to show for and implement, timing to do it efficiently in allocated time, knowledge to be able to do it at all and pride to be successful in it!

The Zeit Control lead by Mr. Wolfgang Salge entered the race the last as a dwarf in the room full of elephants. They successfully customized the BasicCard and improved it to new required levels. Card and software was examined in detail, line by line, byte by byte by TUV, Germany. That is an German institute something like UL in USA or ULC in Canada. TUV approved it stamped it and Zeit Control was happy to receive official acceptance of the solution. Half of other contenders gave up and rest of them with hundreds of software engineers and billions of dollars in resources are still developing their solutions. Zeit Control did it in shortest time, with a Basic Card and as Mr. Salge likes to say, with 2 1/2 persons involved with software. In regards to actual contract by the German Government race is still not over but Zeit Control already has 1800 cards in the field being tested in real life situations.

Almex SmartCard Solutions will be glad to offer solutions for your health card. Since everybody has a bit different idea what card like that should contain and do we are open to suggestions and can customize it to your particular needs. Start today! Define your own idea of the Smart Health Card.

Click HERE to download our Health Smart Card brochure !

Click HERE to download our HealthONE Smart Card Power Point presentation!

NEWS - OLD and NEW but never boring!

USA	98,000 medical errors caused deaths in 2001
AUSTRIA	11 Million cards expanded to 42 Million cards. 30,000 medical professionals cards
TAIWAN	24 Million cards + 345,000 medical professionals cards. 2 year to implement cards and infrastructure
TAIWAN	Government invested 120 Million to implement cards and saved in first year: 14 Million on paper card replacements 550 Million in medical related expenses 210 Million in fraud that was there before 86 in repeated cross examinations
FRANCE	60 Million smart Health cards
GERMANY	80 Million cards
GERMANY	Spending 276 Billion for healthcare before cards
GERMANY	After introducing cards saved per year: 223 Million by using cards as a media 800 Million to 2 Billion in fraud 620 Million by preventing medical incidents and deaths
TAIWAN	Besides administrative data + personal emergency data health card retains: Records of last 6 visits to physician 60 last prescription records 40 last vaccination records 10 high value examinations Pregnancy records Organ donor records
SLOVENIA	Tiny European country has probably most advanced health smart card system in the world! 16k smart cards used. About 2 Million cards 5000 multifunctional dual slot readers 250 self service terminals in public places 600 portable terminals for doctors making house calls Cards contain pointers to safe servers containing actual X rays or comprehensive lab results
AFRICA	Social assistance ID cards, pension cards implemented in rural areas. Fingerprints captured and being used to verify identity of the persons with cards. 1.2 million cards 5500 payment points
FRANCE	SESAM - Vitale system has about 60 Million cards. Cards contain: ID number Last, first name Health insurance plan info Health insurance center info Beneficiary info Contribution fee exempt data Right to universal health protection Supplementary health insurance info
FRANCE	Reimbursement process for doctors reduced from 2 months to 1 week using smart cards and electronic data processing.
GERMANY	Is working on second generation health cards
GERMANY	Zeit Control, manufacturer of the Basic Card that Almex sells in USA and Canada is one of the successful bidders for the new German Health cards.
FRANCE	SESAM - Vitale system has thousands of self service terminals in public places like Government buildings, offices, hospitals where each person can update card automatically by inserting a card and answering a PIN question. System is capable of automatically sending letter or message for update requests.
FRANCE	Xiring released new model of portable smart card reader specially made for health card applications that accepts 3 full size smart cards for mutual authentication.
FRANCE	French smart card manufacturer is delivering 3.7 million health smart cards to Mexico
AUSTRALIA	Quick facts: 20 Million Medicare clients 66.7 Billion in payments per year Human Services department (administration) has 36,000 staff, 850 outlets, 250,000 contacts per day, only 2% of inquiries done on-line Losses: Fraud greater than 222 Million a year 741 Million a year recovered but another 741 Million lost per year Medicare leakage at 185 Million a year Solutions: 2 year time frame Replace 17 existing types of health cards by smart cards Huge savings will easily pay for whole project
WORLD	Cost of healthcare is skyrocketing. It has been growing at faster rate than GDP at rate of 2-3% per year.
GERMANY	Quick facts: 80 Million people 270,000 doctors 77,000 dentists 2,000 hospitals 22,000 chemists (lab) More than 300 insurance schemes First generation health smart cards had 256 bytes of memory
ALGERIA	French company shall deliver 7 million health smart cards to Algerian National Health Insurance Authority in 2007.
MEXICO	Each household will get one health smart card as per Seguro Popular health insurance scheme. 3.7 million health cards designated for first release.

DON'T FORGET:

Software that you don't see can be custom made for your application.

Most of the smart cards you get will be printed in full color raising value of services you provide.

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