“Patients at Mount Sinai Medical Center are able to carry their medical records in their wallets, thanks to new “smart” identification cards the hospital is distributing.
Each card, which is the size and shape of a credit card, features a digital image of the patient and contains a computer chip that is capable of storing 33 pages of data. Designed to help the hospital correctly identify patients, the cards also consolidate each patient’s medical history, which can be accessed anywhere in the hospital — from its outpatient clinics to the emergency room.”
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E.B. Solomont, the Sun New York, 30 June 2008
