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Mount Sinai Medical Center puts medical records on smart cards

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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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