Benefits of Smart card in Health Care Centers

Integration of smart cards is an essential part of hospital automation systems as it benefits patients, doctors and the administration of the hospital. One of the main benefits that patients get from the use of a smart card is that the automation of systems increases the speed and accuracy of knowledge circulation which leads to better services.  Hospitals normally store information of their patients. Using the smartcard, the health center personnel can retrieve information from the patient very fast. The information stored contains medical details of the patient. For instance, it contains the drugs that the patient has been using, using this automated systems the doctor will also know other diseases that patient suffers from. With this information, time spent in consultation room is drastically reduced. Thus, the patient will get services immediately (Kelly, 2000).Benefits of Smart card in Health Care Centers