advances in smart cards application in telemedicine and biometrics
Much has been written and discussed in this country about the effect of Telemedicine in Health-Care Delivery, especially over the last two years, and many protocols and projects identified in the process. In the meanwhile, there has been a paradigm shift, with medical diagnoses being more and more outsourced from Western countries to India rather than the other way around. The wheel of Medical Informatics, it seems, has turned a full circle-and the remorseless process of BPO in Medical diagnostics is affecting this area also. It is in this context, we are proposing the introduction of a new technology, which could be the next step in Telemedicine: smart-card based storage of medical information -- and data -- in a condensed and encrypted form, but retrievable any personal computer. Thus, the need for specialized systems could disappear leading to an open system, ideally suited for easy encoding, analysis, storage, transmission and retrieval. The significance of this project is that both the hardware and the software have been developed indigenously, and thus could have wider ramifications than Medical Informatics alone (e.g. personal data encryption, secure e-commerce, Universal Identification/medical card, etc.). In another sense, it is a firmware version of the A.N.A.H.I.T.A. protocol presented in earlier conferences, and could form the foundation for a new Indian standard in this field. Combined with elementary PC-interfaced pre-amplifiers, sensors, transducers and signal/image processing software -- some of which are briefly referred to in the Annexure -- we can envisage a comprehensive and universal signal & data acquisition, transmission and analysis in Health-Care Delivery
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