Making the Business Case for Electronic Swipe Cards

With new national standards paving the way for broad deployment of electronic swipe cards, insurers are doing a massive rollout. Dr. Leonard Wilkerson, UnitedHealthcare's chief medical officer for the Central Region, says the insurer has rolled out 20 million cards to members this year and estimates the technology could save hospitals and physicians more that $1 billion a year. [Sponsored by Emdeon]