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To: brad greene who wrote (12618)	3/3/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Excerpts from today's American Banker story on the DataCard announcements: "SmartRec, which DataCard said has been in testing for 12 months, is the first health-care application on the Smart Card for Windows operating system that Microsoft Corp. announced last fall. . . . "At the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society conference in Atlanta, Data-Card announced that it would join the Department of Veterans Affairs in a six-month pilot of a home-care service. They will put patient records for 80 people on smart cards to obviate the need for checking paper files and transmitting faxes. "DataCard hopes SmartRec will displace the 2.6 million Veterans Identification Cards, which have magnetic stripes with limited memories, and ultimately will make its way into the general health-care market. "DataCard also exhibited the SmartPass system for controlling access to medical records with biometrics and smart cards." _____________ Meaning for IDX: If the DataCard pilot goes well, it has a chance of getting in 2.6 million government-issued cards. Maybe at some point the government will decide to take the SmartPass option as well, and IDX will supply the biometrics. This all seems a ways down the road.