Healthcare

Smart Cards and HIPAA

IT healthcare organizations in the U.S. need to comply with the pending HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: 1996) requirements, which strongly encourage the conversion of a paper-based healthcare information system to electronic systems that guarantee privacy and security of patient information. To achieve HIPAA compliance, by 2005 healthcare organizations must implement physical, technical, and administrative safeguards that ensure the integrity and security of healthcare information.

Smart cards help healthcare providers to achieve HIPAA compliance by offering them a way to not only secure data exchange and streamline electronic data exchange, but also to increase the quality of service through improved data access.

As a leader in delivering smart cards and services for healthcare worldwide, Gemplus offers healthcare providers two smart card system options, which can be combined for maximum efficiency and security. To learn more, click here.

Smart Cards and SAFE

The SAFE (Secure Access for Everyone) initiative will eventually require that all bio-pharmaceutical companies around the world adopt a global standard for legally enforceable and regulatory-compliant electronic signatures, in order to address the industry's growing challenge of securely sharing massive, complex regulatory R&D documents for regulatory approval of new drugs or medical devices. The initiative asks for a single credential for all bio-pharmaceutical users.

North American pharmaceutical companies are turning to Gemplus' SafesITe Enterprise to prepare for SAFE, because it offers them a way to secure data exchange, digitally sign electronic documents, as well as to secure access to confidential data.