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Slovenia rolls out e-health insurance card system
Slovenia rolls out e-health insurance card system

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (HIIS) has decided to roll out a new electronic health insurance card project to streamline the patients’ claims processing system. The new system enables healthcare providers to instantly and accurately check a patient’s health insurance status and allows for health claims to be processed online.

Humana to switch to machine-readable patient ID cards
Humana to switch to machine-readable patient ID cards

Humana, one of America’s largest health-benefits companies, has promised to adopt machine-readable patient ID cards and, in the process, won the acclaim of the Medical Group Management Association, which estimates the cards could save physician offices and hospitals as much as USD 1 billion a year.

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