Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

Bulgaria chooses Gemalto for eHealth smart cards, readers

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Gemalto announced that Bulgaria has started deploying its smart cards to secure access to personal health records for the country’s military personnel and their family. 


In Bulgaria, Gemalto delivered double-slot readers and smart cards with the associated middleware to KIM-2000, a local company specialized in eHealth projects. KIM-2000 acts as prime contractor for the electronic health record system commissioned by Bulgaria’s Military Medical Academy.


This system optimizes medical treatments, simplifies and modernizes procedures and increases security for accessing health information. 
The Gemalto card is compliant with the Identification Authentication Signature (IAS) European standard to ensure security for accessing personal electronic health records.

The patient and the health care professional simultaneously insert their own card into the double-entry Gemalto reader and type in their PIN code to enable viewing or modifying of the medical file, which is stored on a secure IT infrastructure. The patient can also view their personal data online, using the Gemalto reader and card to authenticate themselves.


The personal electronic health record is a complete electronic archive of the patient’s medical history. It stores all existing medical documentation, including laboratory tests and results, X-ray pictures, all visual tests, electronic prescriptions, etc. It also contains the patient’s blood group, allergies and genetic predisposition to diseases, health check ups, surgical interventions and all useful medical information.


The personal electronic health record enables health care professionals to immediately access a patient’s medical data and therefore, make more accurate decisions, especially in emergency situations, for which there is a special section in the electronic health record, containing the most important relevant information.
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