Focus on E-healthcare

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.

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. More...

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. More...

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. More...