Gemalto will provide CNAS with a microprocessor card-based turnkey solution to strongly authenticate both healthcare beneficiaries and healthcare providers, while ensuring full prescription traceability. Gemalto’s solution involves smart cards for citizens, smart cards for healthcare professionals (doctors, pharmacists), the related customization system and an integrated issuance and management  system. Leveraging on its expertise in solutions and services customization, Gemalto will assist the CNAS in starting off the production process, and ensure proper training for the CNAS personnel. For the citizens, the healthcare smart card substantially simplifies the submission of claims to the Algerian social security services by digitizing claims forms. It also offers a high degree of transaction security and speeds up claim reimbursements. “We needed a partner with expertise in rolling out healthcare smart card and customization systems,” said Mr Ahmed Khenchoul, General Director of CNAS. “Gemalto had a clear understanding of our needs and was able to propose a turnkey solution enabling healthcare institutions to migrate efficiently to smart card technology. By doing so, healthcare institutions in Algeria will be able to securely manage patient records and verify patient benefits while keeping patient data confidential.”

“We are proud to be taking part in this ambitious CNAS modernization plan, which will be a premiere not only in North Africa but on the entire African continent,” added Xavier Chanay, President CIS, Middle East, Africa at Gemalto. The company thrives on creating and deploying secure platforms, portable and secure forms of software in highly personal objects like smart cards, SIMs, e-passports, readers and tokens.  More than a billion people worldwide use the Gemalto’s products and services for telecommunications, banking, e-government, identity management, multimedia  content, digital rights management, IT security and other applications.  Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of Axalto and Gemplus International SA www.gemalto.com.