title: Extended applications with smart cards for integration of health care and health insurance services.
abstract: In 1999 in Romania has initiated the reformation of the national health care system based on health insurance. In 1998 we analyzed this system from the point of view of its IT support and we studied methods of optimisation with relational, distributed databases and new technologies such as Our objectives were to make a model of the information and services flow in a modern health insurance system, to study the smart card technology and to demonstrate how smart card can improve health care services. The paper presents only the smart cards implementations.
authors.affiliation: ITC-Institute for Computers, 167 Calea Floreasca, 72321 Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sucholotiuc
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stefan
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dobre
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teseleanu
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009313:National Health Programs; D012383:Romania