DIABCARD - AN APPLICATION OF A PORTABLE MEDICAL RECORD FOR PERSONS WITH DIABETES

The medical record is central to the management of patients. For peopl e with a chronic disease their many records, held at different locatio ns, often pose a problem. Electronic patient records have been discuss ed for a long time. This article reports on the paradigm of a portable computer-based patient record on a smart card. It describes the devel opment of the chip card based medical information system for chronic d iseases in ambulatory and hospital care. The system has been implement ed, tested and evaluated. DIABCARD could demonstrate that for a specia lity patient record the capacity and functionality of the existing car d is sufficient. Finally, the perspectives of chip cards in health car e are discussed.