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06 Aug, 2008Smart cards numbers to surpass humans in 2009
Austin, Texas-based IMS Research reports that there will be more smart cards than people by the end of next year. By the end of 2009 the IMS projects that smart cards will have passed 7 billion, a level the global population won’t reach until 2011. IMS predicts that 10 billion smart cards are less than […]
29 Jul, 2008KU cards allows students to earn points for paying up
Stored value has been added to Kansas University’s Beak ‘EM Bucks Card for use both on and off-campus. In addition, students can earn reward points. Like most stored value accounts, students can use the card on campus for various services and at several off-campus restaurants, a pharmacy and for pizza delivery. Students must sign up […]
16 Jul, 2008G&D wins German health card contract
Giesecke & Devrient has won a contract from the German health insurer Kaufmännische Krankenkasse (KKH) and 28 corporate health insurance funds to manufacture and supply around 10 million electronic health care cards. The contract includes optical and electronic personalization of the smart cards with data relating to the insured persons and their insurers. G&D will […]
03 Jul, 2008Pharmacy benefit manager employs biometrics to improve security
In an effort to increase security, a leading pharmacy benefit manager has tapped IdentiPHI and their partner Zvetco Biometrics to help implement a solution. By using IdentiPHI’s SAFsolution in conjunction with Zvetco’s biometric fingerprint readers, the pharmacy benefit manager is expected to ease password administration, support and secure multi-person use terminals and secure network access […]
30 Jun, 2008Medical records stored on smart cards
Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York is issuing smart cards to correctly identify patients and make sure they have the correct medical record, according to a New York Sun article. The cards have a picture of the patient and can hold 33-pages of medical data. So far 2,000 patients have cards and the hospital […]
27 Jun, 2008Study puts price on pharmacy RFID systems
According to a new study, an individual pharmacy faces a price tag of between $84,000 and $110,000 to implement RFID systems which meet proposed federal safety mandates. This represents an average of 0.88% of annual sales for pharmacies; a figure which the industry group behind the report says is too much. The study, prepared by […]
26 Jun, 2008Canadian health center tests RFID-enabled RX filling
Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has launched a trial of a robotic, RFID-enabled medication dispensing system, the first of its kind in Canada. The PharmaTrust Dispensary, developed by Ontario-based PCA Services Inc., will operate within Sunnybrook’s pharmacy for three-month evaluation of patient experience with the automated dispensing process. The PharmaTrust Dispensary can stock up to […]
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