SCM Microsystems, a provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. announced that it has received its first orders for 10,000 eHealth terminals to support the relaunch of the electronic health card program in Germany. SCM has begun shipping both its eHealth200 desktop and eHealth500 mobile health card terminals for the program, which involves the deployment of more than 80 million electronic health insurance cards to German citizens.

Hypercom Corporation announced that LVR InfoKom, the leading IT service provider for social organizations in Germany's North Rhine region, has rolled out up to 230 medCompact e-Health terminals to support approximately 7,000 health care professionals at 10 hospitals serving annually more than 50,000 patients. The rollout is believed to be the largest of its type for Germany 's new e-Health card program.

"LVR's rollout of Hypercom's medCompact means that thousands of health care professionals at ten major hospitals in the Rhineland region will be able to quickly and securely authenticate and process the new electronic health insurance cards," said Ulf H?nick, Vice President Healthcare, Hypercom Corporation. "LVR's decision to team with Hypercom is a win-win for hospitals, health care professionals and patients."