SCM Microsystems Introduces New Mobile Terminal for the German Electronic H...( Mobile terminal facilitates home ...),Health

Mobile terminal facilitates home visits and emergency treatment for

Germany's 300,000 physicians

ISMANING, Germany, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced its latest terminal for the German electronic health card program: the eHealth500 mobile terminal.

The eHealth500 mobile terminal allows physicians and physiotherapists to access patient insurance and medical data during home visits, in nursing homes and retirement homes, as well as in emergency situations within or outside of hospitals. The terminals are able to read both the health insurance cards currently in use in Germany as well as the new electronic cards scheduled to be issued to 82 million German citizens beginning later this year. The devices can also read the health professional cards (HPC) issued to authenticate doctors and other health professionals, which, when inserted, allow doctors to access emergency information that may be stored on patients' electronic health cards and to temporarily store case notes for later transfer to their office networks. These mobile functions complement the desktop terminals that are expected to be installed in every physician's office, pharmacy, clinic and hospital.

"Based on an existing hardware platform, the eHealth500 mobile has been especially adapted to the German health care market and the strict security requirements of the German National Security Agency BSI (Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnologie)," said Dietmar Wendling, vice president eGovernment of SCM Microsystems. "Combined with SCM's proprietary software, the result is a product that
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