- "Smart cards are like credit cards embedded with microprocessors, which hold important information on the person who holds them. Seen as one of the most interesting and recent revolutions in the computing arena, smart cards store data, calculate, process, manage data, are safer than magnetic strip cards, and execute encryption algorithms via a smart card reader...."
- http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-insight-top.pag?docid=200942088
Meanwhile, one of my doctor friends at Brigham and Women's Hospital says sometimes she orders a second MRI, if the first was dome at another hospital, because it's so cumbersome to request it.
Can you imagine? Of course, we would have to be on some sharing health care environment....
Nina- this is pretty cool. It seems like a great intermediate step to having a completely integrated health care system where all health care players have access to the same data. It seems like it would be fairly easy to do too.
ReplyDeleteHi Nina. It is cool. One smart card is used in the whole nation. Actually, I am wondering how to implement data management. Are all health provider using the same platform?
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