Patent ID: 8534549

Claim:
A system comprising; a plurality of cards, each card carrying a unique code and holding information associated with a legitimate custodian of the card, each card having an authorized number of uses for an authorized time period; a remote database with a first network interface for transmitting and receiving data over a wide area network; a plurality of card readers for reading the unique code on each card, the number of remaining authorized uses of each and the authorized time period for each card and for controlling use of non-invasive physiological test machines; one or more non-invasive physiological test machines for performing one or more non-invasive physiological tests on the legitimate custodian of the card; each non-invasive physiological test machine having a display for showing non-invasive physiological test results acquired by the non-invasive physiological test machines; each non-invasive physiological test machine having a transmitter for sending data representative of the non-invasive physiological test results via the wide area network to the remote database via a network service interface; and the remote database coupled to the network through a second network interface for receiving transmissions from the transmitter and for storing records of the non-invasive physiological test results by the unique code of each card; wherein the cards do not carry data representative of the identity of the legitimate custodian of the card.