title: Introduction to smart card technology and initial medical application.
abstract: Smart card technology is the name applied to the use of a plastic card with an embedded computer chip. Recent development of smart card software has allowed storage and retrieval of medical information, affording the opportunity to provide a standardized, portable, accessible medical record for use in prehospital and emergency department patient encounters. We describe the smart card concept and its initial deployment in a section of a large Midwestern urban area.
authors.affiliation: Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quick
mesh_terms: D004630:Emergencies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008487:Medical History Taking; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software