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ALSO NOTED: CMS helps docs with HIT; Smart card use growing; and much more...

April 15, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> CMS has created a new website designed to help physicians adopt information technology. Blog

> Multi-application smart card use in healthcare settings is growing, particularly in France and Germany. Release

> Hospitals in northwest Arkansas are sinking big bucks into a medical …

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Editor's Corner

March 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

 

Implanted RFID technology may well be a standard channel for transmitting electronic medical data at some point, but that day hasn't come yet.

Right now, RFID is battling it out against smart cards, flash …

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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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Editor's Corner

December 17, 2006 — 8:01pm ET


Somehow, suddenly, PHRs have become the topic of the hour. Not only have only have employer and …

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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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Smart card vendors pitch healthcare pilots

October 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Boosted by Microsoft, which is including support for smart card security in Vista, vendors got together last week to promote smart card use in healthcare and government. In a session last week at the Smart Card Alliance annual meeting in San Diego, Microsoft senior program manager Shivaram Mysore contended that smart cards are a great solution for many network and desktop security problems, given their secure storage and strong authentication capabilities. Apparently MS already drinks the …

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