What is SMART CARD

A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC) is any pocket-sized card with
embedded integrated circuits. Smart cards are made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but
sometimes acrylonitrile butadiene styrene or polycarbonate.
Smart cards can provide identification, authentication, data storage and application
processing. Smart cards may provide strong security authentication for single sign-on (SSO)
within large organizations.
Smart cards serve as credit or ATM cards, fuel cards, mobile phone SIMs, authorization
cards for pay television, household utility pre-payment cards, high-security identification and
access-control cards, and public transport and public phone payment cards.
Smart cards may also be used as electronic wallets. The smart card chip can be "loaded"
with funds to pay parking meters and vending machines or at various merchants. Cryptographic
protocols protect the exchange of money between the smart card and the accepting machine. No
connection to the issuing bank is necessary, so the holder of the card can use it even if not the
owner.
Smart health cards can improve the security and privacy of patient information, provide a
secure carrier for portable medical records, reduce health care fraud, support new processes for
portable medical records, provide secure access to emergency medical information, enable
compliance with government initiatives (e.g., organ donation) and mandates, and provide the
platform to implement other applications as needed by the health care organization