MediCard - Health Smart Card System
Webb K.H., J. Lout · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1995
Precis Smart Card Systems (formerly Advantage Data Systems) of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, developed the first worldng health care smart card system in the United States. The MediCard system allows a patient to carry their personal information, medical history and insurance data throughout a health care system using their personal smart card. This process expedites the medical process, reduces administrative time and costs, decreases paperwork, provides for better health care through more accurate information, reduces redundant testing and procedures, decreases harmful drug interactions, improves the provider - patient relationship and provides a private and secure information storage system. The MediCard reader systems are located at pharmacies, physician offices, hospitals, mobile emergency units and other health care facilities. The company’s advances in biometrics and EDI, to reduce fraud, provide needed solutions for insurance and governmental areas.