In an effort to clean up duplicate medical records and reduce fraud, Mount Sinai Medical Center has begun a pilot test where patients carry a personal health smart card encrypted with 64K of memory about a patient including name, photo, insurance information, a medical history snapshot and information on medications and some test results. The cards have Triple-DES-level encryption, plus require a PIN. The goal is to distribute 100,000 cards in the initial project funded by Siemens. Mt. Sinai has created a network of other hospitals and community clinics in this project so that registration and clinical information can be shared. To use the cards, hospitals need only the readers ($20 gadgets) and freely downloadable viewer software. To add information to a patient’s card, they then buy editing software.
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