Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York is readying a new health care smart card program set to launch in early 2010. The project involves issuing over 110,000 smart cards to patients of the center. Each smart card will carry the patient’s demographic information plus important medical information such as medical conditions, medications and allergies.

The smart card patient IDs provide a number of benefits. They work to reduce patient record error by helping to eliminate duplicate records and other inaccuracies that can occur when there are mountains of paperwork involved. The cards allow providers to contribute and access accurate patient information more quickly. They work to eliminate medical fraud, and perhaps best of all they streamline the admission and registration process. To ease these processes, patients will be able to have the information on their cards read at the admissions department as well as the emergency department. All patient information contained on each card is securely encrypted within a smart card chip.
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