CardLogix Health Data Card streamlines care, cuts costs.ORLANDO Orlando, city, United States Orlando (ôrlăn`dō), city (1990 pop. 164,693), seat of Orange co., central Fla., in a lake region; inc. 1875. In a citrus fruit and farm area, it is one of the world's most visited vacation spots. , Fla.--(BW HealthWire)--May 19, 1997-- CardLogix, a leading manufacturer of smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. , Monday announced its Health Data Card for low-cost, high-density portable storage and access of medical and prescription records for patient care. The Health Data Card is a smart card with a storage capacity of 65k Bits, with 128k and 256k Bit versions planned for later this year. The card is designed to be an integral part of a health-informatics system that lets health-care providers, insurers and patients quickly access and update vital data for better care and cost efficiency. CardLogix is introducing the Health Data Card at the CardTech/ SecurTech show in Orlando, at Booth No. 129. The Health Data Card integrates with a PC-based distributed database A database physically stored in two or more computer systems. Although geographically dispersed, a distributed database system manages and controls the entire database as a single collection of data. and multiple smart card readers from companies such as American Magnetics and Innovonics. The card can access patient facts critical to emergency care, such as blood type and allergies Allergies Definition Allergies are abnormal reactions of the immune system that occur in response to otherwise harmless substances. Description Allergies are among the most common of medical disorders. and larger files with more extensive histories, drawn from remote networks. To ensure system compatibility, CardLogix is partnering with leading medical-database developers and integrators to cooperatively provide application assistance, system customization and training for their customers. CardLogix has joined MetaLingual Systems of Cookeville, Tenn., to offer the Health Data Card in conjunction with MetaLingual's Clinitran distributed database system. This system is Windows NT-based and makes clinical information more readily accessible, reducing the effort and cost of data entry. The Health Data Card stores the most current segment of a patient record, as well as a directory of where patient information can be found within the local network and with providers outside the network. More About The Health Data Card Included with the Health Data Card is CardLogix Database Management System Software that features on-the-fly data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. , which increases storage capacity by 50 percent to 70 percent. The software is provided free of charge with orders of 10,000 pieces or more. The smart card transaction readers that work with the card install through a simple serial (RS232) port into a PC. The CardLogix Health Data Card is available now, with system demonstrations available upon request. For more information, including requirements for becoming a CardLogix integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. or Smart Partner, contact Emil Nastri, vice president of sales at CardLogix, 714/380-1312, sales@cardlogix.com or www.cardlogix.com CONTACT: Insight Communications Insight Communications is the ninth largest cable operator in the United States with approximately 1.4 million customer relationships in the four contiguous states of Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Cathy Ross Ross , Sir Ronald 1857-1932. British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. , 714/492-6023 cathy@insightcom.com |
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