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G&D Patient Cards - Providing a Flexible Basis for Optimum Medical Care

Date: 28/01/2008

Enhanced data mobility and security


Worldwide, health card projects are demonstrating how smart cards can optimize health care through enhanced data mobility and availability.

Smart cards, with their high level of data and transmission security, memory capacity, flexible programming options, and standardized interfaces, are ideal for use in health care applications.


The German e-health cards are coming!


The introduction of the electronic health care card will radically modernize the health care system in Germany. The card, which will start being issued this year, will require medical practices, dentists, pharmacists, clinics and health insurance companies to network with each other and adapt their internal IT systems and processes. Giesecke & Devrient is a supplier of complete solutions with international experience in the technical infrastructure the future health care system will need.