A Method for the Application of Emergency Medical Information System in Health IC Card.
- Author:
Heung Sik PARK
1
;
Seung Ghon NAM
;
Jae Ouk AHN
;
Hyeon Eui KIM
;
Ju Han KIM
;
Cheol Kyu JEUNG
;
Tae Jin KIM
;
Ki Han LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Emergency Medical Information Card System;
Standardization;
Code;
Security
- MeSH:
Community Health Services;
Computer Security;
Emergencies*;
Emergency Medical Services;
Human Rights;
Humans;
Information Services;
Information Systems*;
Insurance
- From:Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics
1998;4(2):145-156
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Recent developments in computer and communication technology were studied in relation to medical information network systems, using computers and IC cards, to solve problems in community health. Trial use of health IC card systems for personal health data management are already in existence in some countries. The health IC card system provides good quality information to the doctors, the hospital, the patients, and the insurance organizations. Emergency medical information card systems that take advantage of advanced information-related technologies such as computers and communication systems, in order to improve their emergency medical care systems may have many advantages. Emergency medical information card can provide a way to protect people during medical emergencies by providing physicians with their vital medical information during the critical seconds of emergency care if being unable to provide your vital medical information. Before introducing these systems, recognition that an important problems such as standardization of the data and code for the medical information systems, defining the access and usage rights by user profiles and the types of data for the security and data protection must be considered. We studied the emergency medical information card systems to clarify their purpose, analyse their present status, standardize the data and codes and define the access and usage rights and present the ideal system, in view of community health care requirements. Here the results of the research are examined, and there is a discussion of what is needed to use the emergency medical card system in the future.
