Testing smart cards

The patient calls family physician s office and is instructed to come in that afternoon. She arrives at physician s office, activates personal health card (e.g., a smart card is activated by the patient s thumb print), hands it over to the receptionist the RFID microchip in the health card is activated by the reader at the physician s office and the electronic patient record is open. The patient is shown to the examination room a nurse takes vital signs captured via an electronic data capture system including voice dictation. The family physician sees her and orders an ECG (electrocardiogram) test. The patient sees the receptionist the receptionist finds the laboratories nearest to her home gives her the addresses of two nearest laboratories. The patient goes to the nearest diagnostic laboratory. The RFID microchip in the health card is activated by the reader at the laboratory ECG (electrocardiogram) is performed, blood is drawn (test location records ECG results, notifies physician of ECG completion), and the specimen is sent to a second location. The patient waits at home for a call from her family physician. The blood sample arrives at the second... 

Figure 5.28 Accelerated reliability tests for smart cards. Source VTT Electronics.

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