No, I think you are right.  I was part of the smart card group for a little bit - they 
had looked placing the patients information on a smart card so that no matter which VA 
the patient walked into, at any time, that data would always be readily available.  
But I believe that after further study they concluded that data warehousing was the 
better way to go.
  
        

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> Hazami, Raied wrote:
> 
> /snip/
> 
> > anyhow, I had to interface this with the HIS, so,
> > when the card is inserted, the HIS application should
> > automatically pull the patient medical record, this is
> > using CCOW CM. So, ok lets apply this to OpenVistA,
> > CPRS can do the job since it is CCOW compaiable -
> 
> This has me confused on a couple of points.  I'd appreciate any
> clarification you (and/or others) could provide.
> 
> First, my understanding of CCOW is that it's about context synchronization
> between applications, not about data transfer.  I'm reading "pull the
> patient medical record" to mean pull it off the card into VistA.  Maybe
> that's wrong.  Or maybe I'm wrong about something else.  ???
> 
> Second, the understanding of VistA I formed about a year ago through
> interaction here (on the old topica list actually) was that VistA's
> architecture precluded giving a patient their medical record in electronic
> form.  I assumed that was a bidirectional exclusion (no export = no import).
> Was I wrong on one or both counts here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 
> 
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