Company Press ReleaseSOURCE:
ORGA Card Systems, Inc.ORGA Delivers Smart Cards to US Healthcare Project
PAOLI, Pa., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ORGA, a leading smart card specialist
in the healthcare sector, will participate in a major trendsetting project in
the U.S.: the ``Health Passport Project (HPP).'' This trial will demonstrate
how smart cards can streamline healthcare and social service benefits for
insurers and patients alike.
The goal of the project, which is being organized by the US states of
Wyoming, North Dakota and Nevada, is to boost the efficiency of state
health services and to provide independent authorities with patient data.
ORGA won an order for the personalization and delivery of more than 30,000
multifunction microprocessor cards. These ``Health Passports'' will be
issued primarily to women and small children who receive benefits from
more than one national support program. The cards store personal and
medical data, which is downloaded to the local HPP patient information
system in a doctor's office or public health department. The card can also
store food vouchers, which recipients use for cashless shopping.
The sophisticated security architecture guarantees that sensitive data is
protected. The card owner is the only person who -- with PIN authorization
-- can view all the data on the card at one of the kiosk terminals
provided. The card owner can also specify which sensitive information is
to be written on the chip and who is entitled to read it.
Service providers and public authorities can only access the information
which is relevant to their particular field. Here, authorization is
provided by Health Professional Cards, a PIN and a user ID.
The many advantages of the project are already apparent. Card users are
now able to spend their benefits more discretely (e.g. via cashless
payments). And being able to manage their own card data means that they
take a more active role in their own healthcare. It is easier for public
authorities to identify program participants and to check their benefit
entitlement status, resulting in more efficient, cost-effective healthcare
programs with fewer errors and incidences of misuse and duplicate benefits.
Service providers in the healthcare sector profit from an improved information
flow and from a reduced need for manual administrative intervention.
- U.S. Business Contact: Gerry Smith
- Tel.: 610-993-9810 EXT 241
- Fax: 610-993-8641
- E-Mail: 70752,[email protected]
- U.S. Press Officer: Alex Goldsleger
- Tel.: 610-993-8209
- E-Mail: 103247,[email protected]
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Thanks Tim and Anna!
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