What's the difference between resident health card and social security card?

1, Social Security Card: Social Security Card has a wide range of functions. Cardholders can not only use the card for real-time settlement of medical insurance personal accounts, but also handle endowment insurance affairs; Go through the formalities of job registration and unemployment registration; Apply for unemployment insurance; Apply for employment training; Apply for labor ability appraisal and enjoy work-related injury insurance benefits; Handle related labor and social cooperation online.

Security affairs, etc.

2. Resident health card: it is mainly used for resident identification, basic health information storage, cross-regional and inter-institutional medical treatment, expense settlement and financial services in medical and health service activities. It is the link and key to realize information exchange and sharing between residents and medical institutions, between medical institutions, between medical institutions and social public services and other related departments.

Second, the characteristics are different.

1. social security card: the national unified standard is adopted, the social security number conforms to the relevant provisions of the social insurance law, and the citizenship number is adopted.

2. Resident Health Card: the basic carrier of personal information that must be relied on to realize cross-system, cross-institution and cross-regional interconnection and information sharing of medical and health services, and it is a CPU card that can be recognized by computers.

Legal basis: Administrative Measures of the People's Republic of China on Social Security Cards.

Article 2 Social security cards are integrated circuit cards issued to the public and mainly used for government social management and public services in the fields of human resources and social security.

The social security card is the electronic certificate for cardholders to enjoy social security and public employment services. It has the basic functions of information recording, information inquiry and business handling.

In order to speed up health informatization, facilitate residents to obtain convenient and high-quality medical and health services, and promote the realization of basic medical and health services for all, the Opinions of the Central Committee of the State Council on Deepening the Reform of Medical and Health System is formulated.