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by c0restraint 2332 days ago
That sounds both amazing (from a patient in need POV) and scary (from a privacy POV). I’m interested in both
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It sounds like a great system assuming the smart card is a like a credit card with the chip in it, and you needed that to view medial records. Unfortunately I seriously doubt that's the case.
It's actually a smart card with a chip in it. It also has a magnetic stripe, I guess for legacy purposes. Here is a sample: https://www.sanita.puglia.it/documents/20182/134679/TSCNS+fr...