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HealthONE smart system

Quite a few companies, doctors and individuals approached us so far and inquired about smart card capabilities when used as an health card. The matter of fact is that smart cards are perfect media to be used as a health cards.

• Smart cards are small, they fit everybody's pocket
• Smart cards are very secure, can't be read, copied, manipulated, counterfeited or duplicated
• Smart card protect privacy where needed
• Smart cards are re-writable
• Smart card can contain digital log with location, date, time, person's stamp to record every transaction
• Smart card can contain digital prescriptions, no mistakes with handwriting, quantity or quality of medications
• Smart health card could be used anywhere, on the street by medical emergency crew to quickly learn about allergies and treatments, even if injured person is un-capable to interact with anybody
• Smart card can be set that certain profile of medical personnel can see only certain portion of card data
• Insurance, administrative and personal ID data are available
• Long sign ups at doctor's offices can be avoided, just insert card into the smart card reader
• Only after doctor presents his own medical professional smart card, his card and patient's card verify each other. After cross-verification transactions can take place
• Small and inexpensive balance reader can read emergency data any time, anywhere
• Smart card could be used in hospital, county, town, state or better, whole country
• Smart health cards speed up medical administration, put it in right format (HIPAA), process claims faster and more precisely
• Smart cards save hundreds of millions in administration, insurance, public funding, government money
• Smart health card is actively fighting medical fraud and critical errors saving money and lives
• Smart health hard hardware is reasonably priced. Any PC can be set to read or read/write smart cards, there are portable readers, USB desktop readers, PIN pad readers, dual card readers...none break you budget

Plans are that in near future everybody will have smart health card in the pocket. Benefits to the individuals, insurance providers, health givers providers and Government are vast. Health Smart Cards saves lives and actively participates in providing better health care.

THE CONCEPT

There is much longer story why we don't already have Health Smart Cards in our pockets. It is not because of the technical reasons or cost of the system at all. It is more about politics, people resisting Smart Health cards fail to understand benefits such technology brings to the table. Smart cards would save countless lives if implemented .


Consider this: Germany has population of about 80 million people. Until smart cards were implemented every year about 50-60 thousand people were dying because of medical errors, mostly wrong prescriptions. Sounds like awfully a lot of dead people for no reason and it really is! There were only about 5 to 6 thousands of deaths caused by traffic accidents in the same time, whole Germany. Now consider USA, population is 4 times bigger, smart health cards nowhere to be seen, you draw your own conclusions...

We would like to start somewhere and offer HealthONE card. It has many benefits and many more capabilities to come as infrastructure adapts to it.

The cards may be attractively printed in color. They can also be custom printed using your artwork advertising your business and carrying your message. At the same time cards, by design, smart cards are protected against tampering, they can't be copied or counterfeited in any way.

Did you know that whole Western Europe has a smart health card (Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Slovenia...), Taiwan, Puerto Rico...more. 

While initially smart health cards carried administrative data only and helped speed up and secure administrative processes now they are being enhanced by medical records and other useful information.  

 

THE PROOF AND SOLUTION
HealthONE smart card securely stores various collections of data:

 Card administrative data
 Card holder's personal information
 Insurance coverage information
 Emergency information
 Medical records
 Medications, prescriptions

HealthONE smart card provides necessary details to all participants, it fights fraud, it fights medical errors causing serious injuries or deaths, it reduces time to process patient at every stage, it provides emergency information to EMS crew, it stores insurance coverage information, it complies with privacy requirements (HIPAA, PIPEDA and others),  it saves countless hours with doctor. HealthONE card goes where you are going and provides portable medical records on demand, so records are there when you need them, not with your family doctor only. Card also provides green solutions since it saves trees, millions of papers, safe storage, toners, copiers, people involved handling all that.

HealthONE is easy to use, just insert in smart card reader and in an instant (using HealthONE software) records shall be available for processing.  Software is pretty straight forward, intuitive, with familiar tabs and buttons makes using smart card a pleasant experience. No special training is required.

Security and integrity of the system is ensured by using advanced encryption techniques and system organization. We use German smart cards and readers only getting the latest from both fields. On smart card readers we offer 2 year Warranty!

Almex SmartCard Solutions will be glad to offer solutions for your smart health cards. Since everybody has a bit different idea what card like that should contain and do we are open to suggestions and can customize it to your particular needs. Start today! Define your own idea of the Smart Health Card.

PDF brochure here!  Click HERE to download our Health Smart Card system flow chart!

PDF brochure here! Click HERE to download our new Health Smart card brochure!

PDF brochure here! Click HERE to download our Health Smart Card brochure! 

PDF brochure here! Click HERE HealthONE Smart Card Power Point presentation!

Order our demo package!Want to see Health Smart Cards in practical use?? Ask for our HealthONE Demo Kit. 


HealthONE DEMO KIT

It costs $299.00 dollars and you get package with:

* CD with HealthONE demo
* OmniKey 3121 Smart Card reader/writer, USB, handles all contact smart cards
* 10 pre-printed, blank Smart Cards ready to go
* Install - how to use manual

See screen shots with typical fields of data found in health smart cards:

First page reveals:

* personal info
* employer data
* Insurance details
* medical information where one section is emergency info and 2 sections are password protected
Second page reveals:

* Hospital info
* smart card data (can't be re-written)
* home address
* work address

Demo works on any standard Windows XP, Vista, 2003, Windows 7 PC. After brief installation you will be able to get into screens with patient's medical and administrative data. Enter fields with any information you like and after clicking UPDATE software will format new smart card and enter information. There! You just created new Health Smart Card! If you insert that card into the reader software will automatically detect card, open new window and populate fields with stored information.
Now you will be able to read data stored in the Smart Card. You can change what you need and re-write it back to the card. Not only that, you will also find 2 sections of the card protected with password. Patient in this case has his personal medical information protected by password and card will reveal that kind of information only after password (supplied) is entered!

If you happen to order complete software solution based on this demo we offer to refund your money for this demo.

NEWS - OLD and NEW but never boring!
Country News
USA 98,000 medical errors caused deaths in 2001
Austria 11 Million cards expanded to 42 Million cards. 30,000 medical professionals cards
Taiwan 24 Million cards + 345,000 medical professionals cards. 2 year to implement cards and infrastructure
Taiwan Government invested 120 Million to implement cards and saved in first year: • 14 Million on paper card replacements
• 550 Million in medical related expenses
• 210 Million in fraud that was there before
• 86 in repeated cross examinations
France 60 Million smart Health cards
Germany 80 Million cards
Germany Spending 276 Billion for healthcare before cards
Germany After introducing cards saved per year:
• 223 Million by using cards as a media
• 800 Million to 2 Billion in fraud
• 620 Million by preventing medical incidents and deaths
Taiwan Besides administrative data + personal emergency data health card retains:
• Records of last 6 visits to physician
• 60 last prescription records
• 40 last vaccination records
• 10 high value examinations
• Pregnancy records
• Organ donor records
Slovenia Tiny European country has probably most advanced health smart card system in the world! 16k smart cards used.
• About 2 Million cards
• 5000 multifunctional dual slot readers
• 250 self service terminals in public places
• 600 portable terminals for doctors making house calls
• Cards contain pointers to safe servers containing actual X rays or comprehensive lab results
Africa Social assistance ID cards, pension cards implemented in rural areas. Fingerprints captured and being used to verify identity of the persons with cards.
• 1.2 million cards
• 5500 payment points
France SESAM - Vitale system has about 60 Million cards. Cards contain:
• ID number
• Last, first name
• Health insurance plan info
• Health insurance center info
• Beneficiary info
• Contribution fee exempt data
• Right to universal health protection
• Supplementary health insurance info
France Reimbursement process for doctors reduced from 2 months to 1 week using smart cards and electronic data processing.
Germany Is working on second generation health cards
Germany Zeit Control, manufacturer of the Basic Card that Almex sells in USA and Canada is one of the successful bidders for the new German Health cards.
France SESAM - Vitale system has thousands of self service terminals in public places like Government buildings, offices, hospitals where each person can update card automatically by inserting a card and answering a PIN question. System is capable of automatically sending letter or message for update requests.
France Xiring released new model of portable smart card reader specially made for health card applications that accepts 3 full size smart cards for mutual authentication.
France French smart card manufacturer is delivering 3.7 million health smart cards to Mexico
Australia Quick facts:
• 20 Million Medicare clients
• 66.7 Billion in payments per year
• Human Services department (administration) has 36,000 staff, 850 outlets, 250,000 contacts per
• day, only 2% of inquiries done on-line

Losses:
• Fraud greater than 222 Million a year
• 741 Million a year recovered but another 741 Million lost per year
• Medicare leakage at 185 Million a year

Solutions:
• 2 year time frame
• Replace 17 existing types of health cards by smart cards
• Huge savings will easily pay for whole project
World Cost of healthcare is skyrocketing. It has been growing at faster rate than GDP at rate of 2-3% per year.
Germany Quick facts:
• 80 Million people
• 270,000 doctors
• 77,000 dentists
• 2,000 hospitals
• 22,000 chemists (lab)
• More than 300 insurance schemes
• First generation health smart cards had 256 bytes of memory
Algeria French company shall deliver 7 million health smart cards to Algerian National Health Insurance Authority in 2007.
Mexico Each household will get one health smart card as per Seguro Popular health insurance scheme. 3.7 million health cards designated for first release.
DON'T FORGET
  • Every software you see here can be modified to do exactly what you want it to do for you (extra fees may apply).
  • Software that you don't see can be custom made for your application. Click HERE for more info!
  • Most of the smart cards you get will be printed in full color raising value of services you provide.
All prices in CAD!
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