Sagem Orga is the first smart card and security provider to be certified for all smart card products necessary for the upcoming eGK telematics infrastructure, putting it well ahead of the competition. With gematik certifying the secure module card (SMC), which will secure terminals and the vital connector module in the telematics infrastructure, Sagem Orga has now completed the certifications for the patient card (eGK; in December 2006), health worker’s card (HBA; April 2007) and secure module card (SMC; May 2007).

What is most important, however, is that all three security products represent vital, even essential elements of Germany's modern health telematics infrastructure. In the test regions, Sagem Orga technology is already empowering the majority of the test patients. Every health worker's card (HBA) will come from Sagem Orga in cooperation with D-Trust. For the final missing element – the connector – Sagem Orga will provide the SMCs for the first tests, which will begin in two weeks. This will secure the planned implementation schedule for the modern eGK telematics infrastructure.

With this achievement, Sagem Orga has confirmed its leading position in the German health card market and as an expert for telematics infrastructures. "We differ from the rest in that we focus not just on the patient cards like most of our peers. Instead, Sagem Orga technology secures all three vital points in the telematics infrastructure. The SAM for the connector was the most complicated element, as specifications were practically being defined while our experts developed our product," said Silvio Stockmann, VP and Head of the Business Units Health, ID and Payment at Sagem Orga. "To sum up, Sagem Orga and the Sagem security group are an essential technology provider for the German telematics infrastructure, and in terminals, patient and pharmacist/physician cards and access modules, we are well ahead of the competition."