Hospital and Patient Benefits
Advantages to Smart Cards in the Health Care Environment
Stakeholder Benefits

Category

Hospital/Facility Benefits

Patient Benefits

• Improve patient care & satisfaction
• Grow patient & physician market share
• Achieve competitive differentiation
• Provide medical discount opportunities
• Increase marketing effectiveness

• Generate convenience & flexibility
• Greater patient satisfaction & happiness
• Discounts on health products & services
• Special opt-in membership benefits
• Personalized hospital service

• Automate paper & manual processes
• Speed up registration & scheduling
• Improve cash flow through pre-payment
• Collect all product & service rebates
• Reduce cost of patient interaction

• Fewer cards & papers to carry
• Faster registration & eligibility verification
• Flexible & secure payment options
• Portable medical summary on the card
• Improved outcomes & quality of care

• Combat fraud & abuse
• Enforce HIPAA security compliance
• Reduce medical errors & liability
• Improve patient safety & clinical outcomes
• Record non-repudiated audit trails
  

• Privacy & confidentiality of cards
• Reduced medical risks & errors
• Improve patient safety & clinical outcomes
• Automated condition & treatment alerts
• Happiness & piece of mind

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Advantages of Smart Cards in the Health Care Environment:

• Availability. Data must be accessible and usable upon demand by an authorized entity.
• Integrity. Data must not be altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner.
• Confidentiality. Data cannot be made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes.
• Enforcement of security policies
• Integration with existing facility access control.
• Support for information availability, integrity, and confidentiality.
• Unique identifier.
• Encryption and decryption
• Data integrity.
• User authentication.
• Transmission security.
• Remote access.
• Support for strong privacy policies.
• Securing patient information on a wireless network.

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Stakeholder Benefits

Stakeholder

Benefits

• Reduce medical errors & liability, improve clinical outcomes
• Increases accuracy & portability of medical records, growing clinical productivity
• Improve patient care & satisfaction by reducing administrative headaches
• Support disease management, research programs & clinical trials

• Increase patient throughput, admission productivity & service capacity
• Reduce paper forms, phone calls, administrative & billing errors
• Improve revenue cycle by introducing more advantageous payment options
• Support HIPAA Privacy, Security, & Digital Signature compliance

• Grow market share by fostering “state-of-the-art” image & brand
• Attract & retain patients & physicians by building continuous relationships
• Recover HIPAA Privacy cost by adding marketing to compliance procedures
• Support medical & lifestyle discount programs enforced by the card

• Deploy all smart card applications & programs from a single source
• Reduce system integration complexity, especially for remote physician offices
• Minimize business & technical risks by iterative stop-by-stop approach
• Support HIPAA Privacy, Security, & Digital Signature compliance