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To: Cooters who wrote (16518)	11/9/2000 5:37:37 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

The P-tag idea was developed initially with the help of Kaneb Services, an oil service firm that had a contract with the military to create a dog-tag type of medical information file that armed forces personnel could carry with them anywhere they went. This would make it easier for military hospitals and clinics to deal not only with routine illness but with combat related injuries. If every person had a P-tag, it would simplify access to medical records, and it is also very likely that it could me made secure, such that no P-tag files could be displayed or saved on a local computer system without the consent of the patient. The card might be worn, or even embedded in, say, a plastic Social Security or Medicare card. In fact, it might include the SS# as a security feature. Lots of possibilities here, but remember, none of the SNDK earnings projections even deal with this potential application. The potential here is different from the potential for SD MMC or CF, which are consumer based applications. A medical card carried by everyone would require an entirely different scale of operations and would probably add more to the bottom line than every other current application combined. Art