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NY-area hospitals testing smart cards

June 24, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Over next 18 to 24 months, a group of New York area hospitals will be pilot-testing smart cards that can carry the equivalent of 30 pages of medical records. The hospitals, which include Mount Sinai Medical Center, Jersey City Medical Center, Queens Hospital Center, Cabrini Medical Center and several others, plan to hand out 100,000 of the cards, that were developed by Siemens Medical Solutions. Siemens is actually subsidizing the initial round of cards, not to mention the hardware and …

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Gates pitches smart card security benefits

February 11, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

At the RSA 2007 conference this week, Bill Gates stood up to pitch smart cards as the solution to many of the IT industry's current security issues. Gates suggested that transitioning from weak passwords to smart cards would go a long way toward making distributed computing a reality. "Passwords are not only weak, [they] have a huge problem in that if you get more and more of them, the worse it is...so we have to evolve from them," Gates told the conference during his keynote. When …

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"Smart" medical debit cards on the rise

October 15, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

New research is predicting that with the growth in consumer-driven health plans, the industry will come to rely on "smart" debit cards linking clinical data, health plan coverage/eligibility information and personal identity details. The study, conducted by HealthLeaders/Interstudy, predicts that in time, a single card will have access to a consumer's bank, payor and provider systems. In this world, it will be possible for a consumer to see a provider, get benefits verified, a claim …

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