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Abstract

An integrated process for using smart card technology in patient prescriptions, medical/dental services processing, billing and paying, healthcare management and provision of emergency medical/dental information based on a single, comprehensive, unified system, integrating and interconnecting medical/dental health providers, pharmaceutical providers and manufacturers, insurance companies and other healthcare payers, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other health-related regulatory authorities, and patients; a Patient's Smart Card (PSC) capable of storing, processing and retrieving medical/dental information, complete medical/dental history, insurance carrier claim record layouts, medical/dental and prescriptions data, eligibility transactions layout, and credit or debit card data; standard-based objects used by CMS and healthcare industry to create, send, receive, update, and process medical/dental history, electronic prescriptions, medical/dental/prescription claims, and medical/dental services; a Individual's Smart Card Interface Device (ISCID), linked to providers systems, to read/write/update PSC data; a Provider's Smart Card Interface Device (PSCID), linked to providers systems, to read/write/update PSC data; a Smart Card Control Kiosk, supporting setting up, reading, writing, and updating of PSC and provider systems, secured backup PSC information, and printing reports; and centralized Smart Card Control System (SCCS) for audit and push-out updating and synchronization of SCCKs and ISCIDs and PSCIDs, maintaining list of recognized healthcare providers, and assure emergency access to PSC data; mapping facilities between various reporting and transmission standards used by the healthcare industry for billing and medical/dental information transfer; and all other software, procedures, interfaces, programs, data and facilities needed to assure the efficient, effective and secure operation of the above.

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