Ebook Smart cards in health
The NHS Plan, published in July 2000, sets the goal of using smart cards to provide easier access for patients to health records. According to the plan, they will be introduced "when the necessary infrastructure has been put in place and we have fully evaluated technical feasibility and effectiveness."
What does "provide easier access for patients to health records" mean? To what other uses in the health sector could smart cards be put? What other applications of smart technology are relevant?
In this report we aim to contribute to the answering of these questions by undertaking a review of the technology and predicting technical development of smart cards over the next ten years, and relating those developments to technologically based scenarios for the use of smart cards in healthcare.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The technology of smart cards
- 2.1 Kinds of smart card
2.2 Reading the card
2.3 Card memory technology
3 Moore's Law
- 3.1 Background
3.2 Application to smart cards
4 Implications of smart card technology to healthcare
- 4.1 Memory capacity
4.2 Read/write speed
4.3 Read/write range
4.4 Lifetime
- 4.4.1 Number of read and write operations
4.4.2 Data retention
4.4.3 Physical durability
4.5 Resistance to unauthorised access
4.6 Availability
5 Healthcare scenarios
- 5.1 Emergency medical data recording
- 5.1.1 Background
5.1.2 Benefits to the individual
5.1.3 Benefits to healthcare professional
5.1.4 Added value from multifunction cards
5.1.5 Full medical records/history
5.2 Patient identification services
- 5.2.1 Relationship to a national identity card
5.2.2 Secure key into networked data
5.3 Prescription management
5.4 Smart tagging
- 5.4.1 Smart labels for pathology test samples
5.4.2 Inventory tagging
5.4.3 Building entry control
5.5 Patient monitoring
- 5.5.1 Mobile lifestyle monitoring
5.5.2 Hospital monitoring
5.5.3 Embedded monitoring
5.5.4 Episode recording
6 Conclusions
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