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I wonder if all medical institutions will have the required equipment to read the cards by the deadline? Most of the places around here don’t have them. And although I have the card, I’ve never tried using the machine.
Does anyone know if you have to enter the PIN when it is scanned? That would be annoying if so.
The cards can be read by a ~2k JPY USB device and many other phones/tablets. I think the software might be the higher barrier to entry. Whether or not the PIN is required is an interesting question. If the data is merely passthrough to the insurance/govt systems, it may not be. Then again, they may require it to prove the card is yours (because no one would ever share a password, right?). Granted, this is speculation on my part.
No, the medical institutions require government mandated hardware which you can see in the article below. It does facial recognition, too.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230223/p2a/00m/0na/009000c