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Healthcare is both a vital service for
citizens and a multi-billion euro (or dollar) business. Whatever
the mix of private and public institutions involved in the
delivery of healthcare, cost reduction and efficiency are
paramount. E-healthcare systems which link up insurers, doctors,
pharmacies and hospitals are delivering results around the
world, and the secure health card is playing a vital role. |
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E-Healthcare delivery
(Extracts
from the 2008 February Review magazine)
 A card that protects patients’ records yet delivers them securely
and efficiently to authorized personnel, offers potentially major gains
for healthcare providers and consumers alike.
Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS), based in Spokane, Washington
State, in the US, is a network of six sponsoring and affiliated
hospitals and health centers.
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Social security and healthcare cards
Well before the emergence of national e-Government policy, the health
and social security sectors in many countries undertook to drastically
simplify the bureaucracy and extremely costly system of intermediary
financing between citizens and public health and social security
services.
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Smart Card use for eHealth
The healthcare market must respond to
security, privacy, and cost efficiency requirements, and is motivated by
very high budgets available. Smart cards are the best proven technology
to respond to such needs.
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