J Korean Soc Med Inform.
1998 Dec;4(2):157-164.
On Study of the Standardization for Medical Information in Health IC Card
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
- 2Department of pediatrics, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Korea.
- 3Health Promotion Center, Soon-Chun-hyang University Hospital, Korea.
- 4Red Cross College of Nursing, Korea.
- 5Douglas Porter Fellow in Medical Informatics, Division of Clinical Computing, Department of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA.
- 6MediCals System, Co., Korea.
- 7Architecture and Network Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.
- 8Department of Computer Engineering, Seoul Women's University, Korea. knight@swift2.swu.ac.kr
Abstract
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Using IC cards with powerful information processing capabilities, high level of security, and multi media capabilities to create health IC cards has the following merits: comprehensive management of individual medical information, highly secure access to information that may be stored in separate location and/or institutes, increasing the compatability of difference used by various institutes. In this research ,we have categorized the information stored in the health IC card into the following main categories: basic personal information, emergency medical information, medical informatics, nursing information, welfare information. This was based on international ISO standards and specifics of Japan and south eastern Asia. These main categories are further divided into sub-categories and care was taken to ensure that the format of each sub-category is compatible with international standards while being suitable for Koran conditions of actual use. So, these categories conform to international standards and we will continue our efforts update the international standard to include additional categories needed in Korea and update the Korea standard to conform more closely with the international standards.