Sagem Orga receives a vital certification for the new telematics infrastructure of the German electronic health card: The BSI, the German Office for Security in Information Technology, has now given the smart card expert official certification of the fact that Version 3 of its operating system MICARDO fulfills all security criteria.

The MICARDO operating system is a powerful platform and the basis for the development of the various versions of the health cards. It supports the new patient card (eGK) as well as the HBA and SMC cards for physicians and pharmacists.

Sagem Orga had previously received official certification from gematik for all card versions to be used in the future telematics infrastructure (eGK, HBA and the security module SMC). The Common Criteria certification by the BSI now certifies that the operating system architecture of MICARDO at the basis of the infrastructure also meets the most stringent security demands.

This makes Sagem Orga the only manufacturer now certified for all cards needed for the telematics infrastructure in the healthcare sector and whose operating system platform has the Common Criteria security certificate.

In the past, the company had already set milestones in the eHealth project Vitale 2: The French health card, which is currently being rolled out, was developed by Sagem Orga. This highly secure card is based on the MorphoCitiz platform and includes all the identification, authentication and digital signature functions (IAS) defined in the European Citizen Card Standard (CENTC224WG15). The Vitale 2 card is both a health card and an e-Administration card. Like MICARDO, Vitale 2 also has the EAL4+ security certificate for the digital signature protection profile.

Emmanuelle LAMANDE  

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September 2007