Making the Case FOR FIRST RESPONDER IDS More states issuing high-tech IDs as business case, technical issues clarify Zack Martin Editor, AVISIAN Publications Officials in southwest Texas wanted to issue physicians a credential that they could use at emergency scenes to validate their identities. “We were going to issue a disaster card,” says Eric Epley, executive director at the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC). “When a disaster happens your hospital might be cordoned off and we want to issue a card that would give doctors access to the facility.”
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