Family Registration Card as electronic medical carrier in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Medical documentation is a very important part of the medical documentalistics and is occupies a large part of daily work of medical staff working in Primary Health Care. Paper documentation is going to be replaced by electronic cards in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a new Health Care System is under development, based on an Electronic Family Registration Card. Developed countries proceeded from the manual and semiautomatic method of medical data processing to the new method of entering, storage, transferring, searching and protecting data, using electronic equipment. Currently, many European countries have developed a Medical Card Based Electronic Information System. Three types of electronic card are currently in use: a Hybrid Card, a Smart Card and a Laser Card. The dilemma is which card should be used as a data carrier. The Electronic Family Registration Cared is a question of strategic interest for B&H, but also a great investment. We should avoid the errors of other countries that have been developing card-based system. In this article we present all mentioned cards and compare advantages and disadvantages of different technologies.
Novo
Ahmed
A
Medical Faculty, University of Sarajevo.
Masic
Izet
I
Toromanovic
Selim
S
Loncarevic
Nedim
N
Junuzovic
Dzelaludin
D
Dizdarevic
Jadranka
J
D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010355:Patient Identification Systems