Re: [Gnumed-devel] [Fwd: SC-Corporate-ID released]

[J Busser]

At 7:32 AM +1000 5/7/05, Tim Churches wrote:
> Something like this could be of interest to future GNUmed implementations.
> Tim C
>
> SC-Corporate-ID is a commercial Smart Card security system that can be
> extended by the user using the Python language... <SNIP>
> You may find information on SC-Corporate-ID at www.snakecard.com.

Tim, how were you envisioning this used? What would you see as the 
most pressing deployment of a Smart Card?

There is on the one hand the obvious authentication of doctors' and 
office staff's access, maybe from within the office, but more likely 
when accessing from outside. Though I am not sure how the costs of a 
card + card reader system would compare to a USB key or dongle, I 
suppose the Smart Card fits nicely in a wallet, but then you require 
a reader on whatever PC you are going to use. Would the SmartCard 
have enough capacity to hold each of Windows and Linux GNUmed client 
softwares and dependencies? And with this SnakeCard solution is there 
a requirement for extra software pre-installed on whichever PC you 
are going to access from?

What deployment of a SmartCard could GNUmed pursue, that might excite 
a government to support further adoption and deployment?

If you could download a patient's EMR dump from GNUmed onto a 
patient's Smart Card, would the Emergency room or specialist's office 
need more than a card reader (and the patient's password) to read the 
file?

And if a patient were to have failed to update their SmartCard at 
their last office visit, would this be the means by which, from the 
Emergency room or specialist's office, the profile (dump) could be 
updated remotely? Maybe it would also be the means by which patients 
who went to the trouble of having a reader at home could authenticate 
a connection to their doctor's GNUmed to update their contact or 
other 'self-manageable" info and perhaps request appointments or make 
other requests?