Healthcare Council

Health care organizations worldwide are implementing smart health cards supporting a wide variety of features and applications. Smart health cards can improve the security and privacy of patient information, provide the secure carrier for portable medical records, reduce healthcare fraud, support new processes for portable medical records, provide secure access to emergency medical information, enable compliance with government initiatives and mandates, and provide the platform to implement other applications as needed by the healthcare organization.

The Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council brings together payers, providers, and technologists to promote the adoption of smart cards in U.S. healthcare organizations and within the national health IT infrastructure. The Healthcare Council provides a forum where all stakeholders can collaborate to educate the market on the how smart cards can be used and to work on issues inhibiting the industry.

• Download description of Council mission, activities and membership

Council Resources

• Identity Management in Healthcare, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council webinar, September 22, 2009

• Healthcare Identity Management: The Foundation for a Secure and Trusted National Health Information Network, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council and Identity Council brief, September 2009

• Smart Card Technology in Healthcare: Frequently Asked Questions, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council and Identity Council document, May 2009

• Effective Healthcare Identity Management: A Necessary First Step for Improving U.S. Healthcare Information Systems – A Smart Card Alliance Brief for Government Policy Makers and Other Stakeholders, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council and Identity Council brief, March 2009

• A Healthcare CFO’s Guide to Smart Card Technology and Applications, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council white paper, February 2009

• Smart Cards in U.S. Healthcare: Benefits for Patients, Providers and Payers, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council white paper, February 2007

• Smart Card Applications in the U.S. Healthcare Industry, Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council white paper, February 2006

• Implementation profiles of healthcare organizations using smart cards

  • French Sesam Vitale Health Card
  • German Health Card
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center Personal Health Card
  • Queens Health Network
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

• HIPAA Compliance and Smart Cards: Solutions to Privacy and Security Requirements, Smart Card Alliance white paper, September 2003

Council Management and Membership

The Healthcare Council is managed by a steering committee made up of participants from across the healthcare and smart card industry. The Healthcare Council steering committee and officers are:

• Chair: Paul Contino, Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Vice chair: Michael Magrath, Gemalto
• Secretary: Dale Grogan, LifeMed / SMART Association
• Ola Martins, Oberthur Technologies
• Matthew Neuman, Giesecke & Devrient

Smart Card Alliance members who are active in the Healthcare Council include:

• ActivIdentity
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• CardLogix
• Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
• Deloitte
• Digital Identification Solutions
• FISERV
• Gemalto
• Giesecke & Devrient
• Honeywell
• HP Enterprise Services
• IBM
• LifeMed Card, Inc.
• MasterCard Worldwide
• Mount Sinai Medical Center
• NIST
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• Oberthur Technologies
• Organizational Change Future Workplace, LLC
• OTI America
• PPG Industries, Inc.
• SCM Microsystems
• ST Microelectronics
• Sun Microsystems
• Thales e-Security
• TrustBearer Labs
• U.S. Department of Defense/DMDC
• VeriFone
• Visa Inc.
• Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp.
• XTec, Incorporated

Healthcare Council participation is open to any Smart Card Alliance member who wishes to contribute to the Council projects.

For more information about the Healthcare Council or for more information on becoming a member of the Alliance, please contact the Alliance office via email at info@smartcardalliance.org or via telephone at (800) 556-6828.