Eltrax in St Paul, Minnesota, which is associated with several HIS manufacturers(Spectrum, McDonald Douglas, SMS, and Meditech)and provides a magnetic strip card with about 900-character capacity IMSG/INFODYNE from Englewood, Colorado, which has a medical information card on magnetic strip carrying up to 600 characters. IntelliScan from American Medical Data Corp in Atlanta, Georgia, which has information stored as 350 characters of readable text printed on the top of the card and up to 850 characters of detailed medical information optically encoded at the bottom. It is being used by hospitals in both Texas and Mississippi The cards are customized to each hospitals database Lifecard, early pilot(1985)card for electronic claims provided by Blue Cross/Shield of Maryland Medfirst credit card, combining both medical information and financial credit, in test by Humana and Discovery Card. Medi-Card, a chip card from MediData Systems in Allston, Massachusetts. MedKey, from Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Biloxi, Mississippi Medical Information Systems, in St. Louis, Missouri, which has a microfilm card that can contain up to 18 pages of information, including signals, text, images, data, and color photos Ulticard, a 64K RAM memory chip in a credit card sized pack being tested in Houston at Baylor and Methodist hospitals. Some of the cards are being tested in different countries. Sweden, the leader for about 20 years, has been ing a patient card which is issued at birth by the government together with an ID number. Sweden has a medicine program and it has been in their best interest lards so that the information can be accessed by every institution in the country. Belgium, Canada, france and Switzerland all have several systems on trial acronyms ACR/NEMA: American College of Radiology/National Equipment Manufacturers Association ANSI ASC X12: American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee ARDEN SYNTAX: Syntax for Medical Logic Module ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials CIS: Clinical Information System CPT: Current Procedural Terminology DRG: elated Group DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders EDI: Electronic Data Interchange HCFA: Healthcare Financing Administration HIS: Hospital Information System HL/7: Health Level/7 ICD: International Classification of diseases IDS: Integrated Diagnostic System IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE/MEDIX P1157: Medical Data Interchange IEEE/MIB P1073: Medical Information Bus OSI: Open Systems Interconnection RCS: Read Classification System NOMED: Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine UCDS: Uniform Clinical Data Set UHDDS: Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set UMLS: Unified Medical Language System WARP: Wisconsin Ambulatory Review Project e 2000 by CRC Press LLC© 2000 by CRC Press LLC • Eltrax in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is associated with several HIS manufacturers (Spectrum, McDonald Douglas, SMS, and Meditech) and provides a magnetic strip card with about 900-character capacity. • IMSG/INFODYNE from Englewood, Colorado, which has a medical information card on magnetic strip carrying up to 600 characters. • IntelliScan from American Medical Data Corp. in Atlanta, Georgia, which has information stored as 350 characters of readable text printed on the top of the card and up to 850 characters of detailed medical information optically encoded at the bottom. It is being used by hospitals in both Texas and Mississippi. The cards are customized to each hospital’s database. • Lifecard, early pilot (1985) card for electronic claims provided by Blue Cross/Shield of Maryland. • Medfirst credit card, combining both medical information and financial credit, in test by Humana and Discovery Card. • Medi-Card, a chip card from MediData Systems in Allston, Massachusetts. • MedKey, from Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Biloxi, Mississippi. • Medical Information Systems, in St. Louis, Missouri, which has a microfilm card that can contain up to 18 pages of information, including signals, text, images, data, and color photos. • Ulticard, a 64K RAM memory chip in a credit card sized pack being tested in Houston at Baylor and Methodist hospitals. Some of the cards are being tested in different countries. Sweden, the leader for about 20 years, has been using a patient card which is issued at birth by the government together with an ID number. Sweden has a socialized medicine program and it has been in their best interest to develop uniform standards so that the information can be accessed by every institution in the country. Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and Switzerland all have several systems on trial. Acronyms ACR/NEMA: American College of Radiology/National Equipment Manufacturers Association ANSI ASC X12: American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee ARDEN SYNTAX: Syntax for Medical Logic Modules ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials CIS: Clinical Information System CPT: Current Procedural Terminology DRG: Diagnostic Related Group DSM: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders EDI: Electronic Data Interchange HCFA: Healthcare Financing Administration HIS: Hospital Information System HL/7: Health Level/7 ICD: International Classification of Diseases IDS: Integrated Diagnostic System IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE/MEDIX P1157: Medical Data Interchange IEEE/MIB P1073: Medical Information Bus OSI: Open Systems Interconnection RCS: Read Classification System SNOMED: Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine UCDS: Uniform Clinical Data Set UHDDS: Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set UMLS: Unified Medical Language System WARP: Wisconsin Ambulatory Review Project