BBC medical records story

[Peter Tomlinson]

"David Hansen" <davidh@spidacom.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Any estimates on how many lines of medical record a "smart" card can
> hold? Probably zero, especially with photographs.

Recent developments in the far east are producing single chip smart cards
with 1Mbyte of flash memory. These are intended for citizen ID use, with
good quality photos stored in them - 10K bytes allows a very good mug shot
to be stored, or an Xray picture, so there is plenty more space for text
records - and an A4 page of text takes 5K to 10K bytes.

Peter T