Mobile Medical

Mobile Medical

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Welcome to Mobile Medical!

Mobile Medical card could provide a means of carrying your medical records with you at all times. Incase of a medical emergency your entire medical history will be just a click away for the treating physician. 

The Mobile Medical Card is currently under research and development. Our goal is to have every ambulance and emergency room using a generic card reader with the ability to retrieve your entire medical history such as medications, allergies and much more.

A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, but inside it is completely different. First of all, it has an inside -- a normal credit card is a simple piece of plastic. The inside of a smart card usually contains an embedded 8-bit microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. Think of the microprocessor as replacing the usual magnetic stripe on a credit card or debit card.

Smart cards are much more popular in Europe than in the United States. In Europe, the health insurance and banking industries use smart cards extensively. Every German citizen has a smart card for health insurance. Even though smart cards have been around in their modern form for at least a decade, they are just starting to take off in the United States.

Magnetic stripe technology remains in wide use in the United States. However, the data on the stripe can easily be read, written, deleted or changed with off-the-shelf equipment. Therefore, the stripe is really not the best place to store sensitive information. To protect the consumer, businesses in the U.S. have invested in extensive online mainframe-based computer networks for verification and processing. In Europe, such an infrastructure did not develop -- instead, the card carries the intelligence.

The microprocessor on the smart card is there for security. The host computer and card reader actually "talk" to the microprocessor. The microprocessor enforces access to the data on the card. If the host computer read and wrote the smart card's random access memory (RAM), it would be no different than a diskette.

Smarts cards may have up to 1 kilobyte of RAM, 24 kilobytes of ROM, 16 kilobytes of programmable ROM, and an 8-bit microprocessor running at 5 MHz. The smart card uses a serial interface and receives its power from external sources like a card reader. The processor uses a limited instruction set for applications such as cryptography.

 

Using Smart Card technology your medical records will be stored for fast retrieval.

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Please contact David Shamblin to offer comments and join our mailing list for updates on R&D on Mobile Medical

You can e-mail us at: Vstarmod@yahoo.com

Your entire medical records in your wallet, ready for a medical emergency