Government and healthcare ID schemes are gathering pace with the greater development of secure, smart card-based solutions addressing concerns around: fraud; identity theft; access to benefits and welfare payments; prevention of terrorism; personal healthcare records; and insurance payments.  Ensuring privacy and data security is becoming of greater importance and secure electronic documents and cards are seen by governments as the best way of achieving this.  IMS Research is utilising its long experience of studying the smart card, semiconductor and security markets to provide this focused report on the Electronic Government & Healthcare ID sector.

This report provides an overall summary of the market for government and healthcare credentials, with detailed market splits by country and application.  The total available market (TAM) is estimated, i.e. the number of identification credentials in circulation for each application in paper, plastic card (including magnetic-stripe), smart card and “smart document”.  Analysis of each of the major applications is included: Driving License, Healthcare Card, National ID Card, Passport, and Other.  Annual shipments of smart cards are forecast, with regional summaries of the volume and value of their ICs. Further top-level information is presented by the IC type and technology. The report presents a five-year forecast period through to 2014.

In addition to the view of the market by country, a view by application is also included to highlight those trends that are affecting each application. This information is presented by region, with all the model parameters included at a regional level and with additional tables summarising the forecast annual shipments by each country. Market shares of the leading providers of smart card credentials and smart card ICs are included.

Key features and market breakdowns include:

• Total overall market size for government and healthcare ID applications by application, region and country
• Breakdown by major application: driving license, healthcare, national ID and passports
• Assessment of the level of smart card adoption and penetration in each country
• Detailed forecasts for the installed base of smart cards from 2008 to 2014
• Annual shipments of smart card credentials by country and by application for smart cards and ICs to 2014
• Breakdown by memory and microcontroller product type and an assessment of future adoption of contactless technology
• Analysis of the average selling price and forecast revenues
• IC and smart card market share analyses for memory, microcontroller and combined products