| CANADA |
Almex is able to offer popular IsoProx II access cards
made originally by HID with ZC3.7 contact microprocessor chips embedded.
That opens door to multitudes of card usage besides just opening a
doors. |
| 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
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