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2008 OCTOBER / TRENDS
Ensuring healthcare service and maintaining the healthcare system posts major challenges in many countries. Due to the development of medicine and medical methods, the average life expectancy of people is higher and higher and the elderly need more and more healthcare service. All these factors lead to growing healthcare costs.
Another disadvantage of the current system is the immaturity of communication between the system elements. As a result, it was necessary to rethink the current healthcare identification systems, and to introduce a common European healthcare card with chip which meets the requirements of our age.
Besides rising costs, the missing revenues because of those who are not paying social security taxes also represent a major problem. This is partly caused by the low security level of the identification system (counterfeiting).
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