Monday, February 7, 2011

Healthcare Smart Cards: the Growing Trend in Healthcare

Indian Healthcare Smart Cards

The usage of Smart Card is a new and growing trend in Healthcare which increases the effectiveness of our healthcare delivery system.

Smart Card is a tool for the patient created by healthcare providers. It contains computer-readable data that is issued to a person or healthcare provider to facilitate providing healthcare. Four subsets of data are necessary to operate the card: privacy protection, data unique to the consumer, administrative data and clinical data.  It conforms to the privacy and security provisions of HIPPA; in order to access, the user must provide a password, a PIN number or both (Thede & Sewell, chap. 14). Smart Card is currently in use in New York State by Queens Health Network and Mt Sinai Medical Center (Smart Card Alliance, 2011) .
Examples of Healthcare Smart Card in USA,
they look just like credit cards
The implementation of Smart Card will provide easier and more accurate access of patient information, expedite patient registration and admissions, decrease administration cost, reduce healthcare fraud and provide emergency medical information (Thede & Sewell, 2010, chap. 14) . If used appropriately, it can also decrease medical errors by providing all the necessary medical information to the healthcare provider, thus they can spot out medication contraindication right away.

Hopefully, Smart Card will be widely implemented in all healthcare setting in the near future, that can make our lives easier.



References

Thede, L. & Sewell, J. (2010) Informatics and Nursing: Competencies and Applications. Lippincott: Williams and Wilkins

Smart Card Alliance (2011) About Smart Card : Applications: Healthcare retrieved February 7th, 2011 from http://www.smartcardalliance.org/pages/smart-cards-applications-healthcare

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5 comments:

  1. Ben ChalunkalFebruary 15, 2011 at 5:52 PM

    Smart cards are a great way to ensure better patient outcomes, simplify medical records, and save money. According to a study at Berkley, Mount Sinai Medical Center spent about $60-100 for medical records per patient. Smart card usage can decrease such costs significantly because they will eliminate the duplication of medical records. Medical records can be more efficiently accessed by swiping the smart card which is a more time and cost effective method. This type of new technology will be implemented in more and more hospitals as the patient population grows because it makes patient history and demographics easily accessible.

    Reference:
    Xiao, C & Yu, A. (2009). Medical Smart Card System for Patient Record Management.
    Retrieved from http://step.berkeley.edu/White_Paper/Xiao_Yu.pdf.

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  2. A. FadojuFebruary 16, 2011 at 7:21 PM

    Health care Smart cards are definitely tools for us to cherish as health professionals and individuals provided personal security concerns are alleviated or properly dealth with.

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  3. Nurse Karen K.February 21, 2011 at 4:47 PM

    What an important topic for nurses learning about informatics. Thanks for the links.
    I've enjoyed the discussion this post has generated. KK

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  4. CinziaFebruary 23, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Smart cards are great because they can carry a substantial quantity of health related data in a compact and portable form. It is a safe method for storing health related information on patients and can come in handy in emergency situations.

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