Healthcare is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The ability to accept different forms of payment, as well as the ability to access and transfer patient data via a single card, is more often becoming a requirement rather than a luxury. One of the largest issues pushing the industry to move to an electronic transaction-based system is fraud.

Healthcare point of transaction systems must:

• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare systems by standardizing the interchange of electronic data for specified administrative and financial transactions
• Protect the security and confidentiality of electronic health information
• Provide quick access to validate patient eligibility

Hypercom point of transaction terminals deliver medical data with the same security and speed as traditional financial transactions. In fact, Hypercom is proud to announce our latest Healthcare product solutions to our customers with three offerings (currently available in German only):

• medCompact -- Is the optimal card authentication solution for all healthcare professionals and service providers. Available in a number of different variants, medCompact can be adapted to meet the specific needs of doctors, and pharmacists, as well as their patients and customers.
• medModular -- A powerful, unattended terminal that can authenticate electronic health cards (eGK) as well as processing card payments at eHealth kiosks. Kiosk operators can now give card holders access to their medical data, whilst at the same time offering other value-add services.
• medHybrid -- An all-in-one terminal for authenticating electronic health cards (eGK) as well as processing payment cards. This versatile terminal provides a flexible and reliable solution all healthcare professionals and service providers.