Smart card software - CUSTOM SOLUTIONS

SC HEALTH

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.

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 save lives.

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 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 SCHEALTH card or USB plug. It has many benefits, many more capabilities to come as infrastructure adapts to it.

The cards maay 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.

It is the imperative that you protect your business and services best you can. The Smart Cards are ideal for that. Also, cards can be re-used again and again.

    
Xi Max reader by Xiring used massively in French health care system

THE PROOF AND SOLUTION

This is where BasicCard kicks in! It is a smart card perfect to be used in the Health care environment. Low cost is ideal for mass implementation, ideal memory sizes available, security mechanisms built-in, quickest time to market puts you in the driver's seat. We can take care about printing and corresponding hardware needs. You could easily have test runs in the field with few hundred or thousand cards while other smart card companies are still sweating to write their software.

And there is a proof! Right now Germany is working on their third generation health smart card that will replace all existing smart cards in use today. It suppose to be the most secure card on the market, strong encryption, ideal file structure and data handling, customized to be the health card of today and future. We are talking about 80 million cards here!

6-7 big smart card companies entered the race to provide that kind of solution. It is matter of money to win big order, technology to show for and implement, timing to do it efficiently in allocated time, knowledge to be able to do it at all and pride to be successful in it!

The Zeit Control lead by Mr. Wolfgang Salge entered the race the last as a dwarf in the room full of elephants. They successfully customized the BasicCard and improved it to new required levels. Card and software was examined in detail, line by line, byte by byte by TUV, Germany. That is an German institute something like UL in USA or ULC in Canada. TUV approved it stamped it and Zeit Control was happy to receive official acceptance of the solution. Half of other contenders gave up and rest of them with hundreds of software engineers and billions of dollars in resources are still developing their solutions. Zeit Control did it in shortest time, with a Basic Card and as Mr. Salge likes to say, with 2 1/2 persons involved with software. In regards to actual contract by the German Government race is still not over but Zeit Control already has 1800 cards in the field being tested in real life situations.

Almex SmartCard Solutions will be glad to offer solutions for your health card. 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.

Click HERE to download our Health Smart Card brochure !

Click HERE to download our HealthONE Smart Card Power Point presentation!

Want to see Health Smart Cards in practical use?? Ask for our 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

Demo works on any standard Windows XP PC and most likely on VIsta as well. 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 tgo 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.