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Health cards

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General description

Secure, efficient and reliable solutions are indispensable for reducing costs in the often very bureaucratic health care systems worldwide.

Background information

The implementation of secure electronic health cards improves services for patients while simplifying the administrative processes and reducing costs and fraud. NXP supplies solutions for several projects in the world like Sesam Vitale, the French Health Card system.

NXP provides solutions in contact, dual and contactless interfaces for cards and readers, and offers a wide range of EEPROM to meet specific needs of health care providers such as storing prescription and patient history. In this way, we also contribute to a more efficient health care system than benefits patients, health care insurances, hospitals and health professionals without compromising security or privacy.

NXP also supplies ICs for social security cards, patient ID cards and access control cards for hospitals and laboratories.

Key achievements

  • Experienced high volume supplier for large scale health card projects.
  • Secure production and shipment
  • Multi source production facilities for high volume deployment
  • Private data protected on security certified hardware
  • Experience sharing & consultancy
  • Strong trusted partner network
  • Comprehensive portfolio with various memory, crypto and interface options, easy OS portability
  • NXP was the first to introduce: dual interface IC, contactless PKI IC, IC with 3 interfaces
  • Leader in chip security: NXP received industry’s first Common Criteria EAL5+ certificate for: ICs with contact and dual interface and triple interface IC
  • Leader in chip and packaging technology: #1 in contactless chip technology (2 billion chips sold), unique, ultra low power designs, industry-leading reliability with data retention of 20 years

Related links

Sesam Vitale press release

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