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Sec. Michael Leavitt with President Bush
w.npr.org

E-health page One

Know WHO makes International Decisions on medical health; Know major health Institutions
International who's-who and organizations www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/medheads.html

Personal Note Concerning VeriChip, the subdermal implanted rfid chip :
Our concern here at Apocalyptic Hope is not one of privacy ( although that IS a problem ).
Our concern is not one of " incompatibility" nor physical detriment , although that too IS a problem.
( rfid hazard Rev. 16: 2 , 10 "noisome and grevious sore " ; we see that as life-threatening )

Our concern is the fact that an implantable chip in the Right Hand or forehead that enables all financial transactions
( with the name, number and image of the beast ) and opens up all databases
will commit one's soul to the Lake of Fire for all eternity.
Revelation 14: 9-11.

You can either believe that and refuse the VeriChip in the Right hand or forehead.....
or you can take the chip and find out in eternity ---- when it is too late--- that what God says does come to pass.
The choice is yours.

The chip is forced on no one. But it is required (necessitated ) for all health treatment, and eventually for all purchases,
including food.( survival )

From the Newswire: Educational fair- use

"Recommended" flu vaccine for 6 months to 18 yr. olds -- Feb. 27, 2008
An advisory panel to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said all children aged 6 months to 18 years should receive the vaccine, extending a previous recommendation to immunize children up to 5 years.
The recommendation, which soon will be adopted by the CDC, could take effect as early as the 2008-2009 flu season.
The shots are not mandatory, but an official recommendation from the CDC means more insurers will cover them. The recommendation also will increase the number of government-subsidized shots available to poor families

Children may receive the immunization by injection or a relatively new nasal spray. Children receiving their first immunization need two doses, with one annually thereafter.
Some parents may be concerned about thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative present in some adult flu vaccines that long has been rumored to cause autism. Baxter, however, said the preservative is safe and that extensive scientific research has not found any link between thimerosal and autism. [ Ed: I personally do not believe it is safe ]
http://origin.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8382663

Google practices storing personal medical records online-- Feb. 22, 2008
The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google's new service, which won't be open to the general public.[ Ed: not yet ]
Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that's also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools. [ Ed: "the right to know" will change all of this most likely ]
The Cleveland Clinic decided to work with Google "to create a more efficient and effective national health care system," said C. Martin Harris, the medical center's chief information officer.
That means a patient who agrees to transfer medical records to an external health service run by Google or Microsoft could be unwittingly making it easier for the government or some other legal adversary to obtain the information, Dixon said.
If the medical records aren't protected by HIPPA, the information conceivably also could be used for marketing purposes.
[ Ed Yes, like denying insurance coverage ]
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080221/D8UUN0100.html

Enforced vaccinations or $50.00 a day fines -- Nov. 19, 2007 and 10 days in jail ( 2 work-weeks ?)
"I think it's offensive that the government would forcibly vaccinate kids. Individual rights are a good thing, and when you're dealing with health issues, informed consent is an important value," says Donna Hurlack, a Virginia gynecologist protesting outside the courthouse
"The heavy-handed 'vaccine roundup' instigated by Mr. Ivey obliterates informed consent and parental rights," said the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. in a Nov. 18 letter to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1119/p02s04-ussc.html

Mental Health and Social Control -- Nov. 19, 2007
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis115.htm

Prescriptions for "off-label" uses ( non-intended ) -- Dec. 3, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing pharmaceutical makers to provide doctors with medical journal studies of unapproved uses for drugs, a move critics say would undermine long-standing restrictions on marketing medicines for "off-label" purposes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113002300.html?nav=rss_nation

Health Plan for all -- Oct. 29, 2007
But an American health care program would create a national risk pool including every American — driving risk down to the lowest possible point. The efficiencies and savings would be enormous.
The irony is that the more people we cover, the lower the cost per person to provide health care. The system would eliminate uncompensated care, which every private provider faces today — and the rest of us pay for through higher rates. By providing a national risk pool, we bring enormous clout to the marketplace that benefits everyone.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/10/28/healthproed_1029.html

Drug firms try to bribe doctors -- Nov. 1, 2007
Multinational drug companies are targeting doctors in developing countries with dinners and lavish gifts, such as air conditioners, washing machines and down-payments on cars, as incentives to prescribe their drugs, a report reveals today.
The report from Consumers International (CI) says that self-regulation by the multinational drug giants has failed, citing drug adverts by companies such as Glaxo-SmithKline, Wyeth, Novartis and Pfizer that would be considered misleading in Europe, as well as the heavy promotion by all companies of products to doctors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2201991,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

Opium to be legalized (painkiller ) -- Oct. 26, 2007 "the more noble the cause, the more devious the motive "
Ed: The social-engineers are hereby manifesting defeat; so let the masses be numbed against the inevitable devolution
the Senlis Council ( think -tank Paris, France )
The European Parliament has proposed turning Afghanistan's massive poppy crop into legal opium-based pain-killers
in order to enhance stability and reduce poverty in the conflict-torn country [ Ed: any rationalization will do ]
turning the illicit production of the narcotic into legal analgesics.

"carefully and selectively engaging in manual eradication".
[ Ed: eradicating Poverty, NOT Opium; in fact they are multiplying opium farms in places where they have not been ]
The report, drawn up by Italian liberal MEP Marco Cappato

"By linking the country's two most valuable resources – poppy cultivation and strong local village control systems, the controlled cultivation of poppy for the local production of morphine can be secured," the think tank's Director of Policy Research, Jorrit Kamminga said
Afghanistan supplies more than 90% of the world's opium, generating about €2.1 billion in revenues a year. The World Bank has estimated that about 40% of Afghanistan's economic activity is opium-related
http://euobserver.com/9/25049/?rk=1

Record Opium crop '07 -- Nov. 1, 2007
Afghanistan saw a record harvest of 9,000 tons of opium in 2007, the U.N. said, a 34 percent increase from 6,724 short tons in 2006. The export value of the country's opium is estimated at $4 billion, up 29 percent from 2006. The opium sales equal more than half of Afghanistan's legal gross domestic product
"We all know that opium and heroin cause severe, severe problems, addictions, corruption, criminality, terrorism," Khodaidad said at the opening of the two-day meeting. "Afghanistan is not alone. Many countries in the region share this problem. If we are all part of the problem we are all part of the solution."
http://groups.google.com/group/Bible-Prophecy-News/browse_thread/thread/88dfad20c5c3ddb9/1344186f56c906a0#1344186f56c906a0

PassportMD.com -- Living wills; advance medical directives -- Sept.18, 2007 PHR
http://roll.jrj.com.cn/news/2007-09-18/000002695136.html

From National Health Plan to UNIVERSAL ( Global ) Health Plan -- Sept. 16, 2007
The "u" word ...
Clinton has said she wants to "figure out how we provide universal health care without putting billions more into the system." Her goal has been universal coverage in eight years
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gU-7KHUD7xwv2z2kqgpSPaUjdxXw

US under UN Health Management ( Martial Law ) -- Aug. 29, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57369
http://www.spp.gov/pdf/nap_flu07.pdf
http://www.northcom.mil/Avian%2520Flu/index.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=14987
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2005/53865.htm

Wanted : Surgeon General who is politically correct
Gov. suppresses free speech of Surg. Gen. Carmona, Koop and Satcher -- July 10, 2007
Carmona testified alongside former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and David Satcher, who served in the Reagan and Clinton administrations, respectively. They also told the committee that they had faced political interference — particularly on morally charged issues such as sexuality or drug use.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-carmona11jul11,1,915545.story?coll=la-news-politics-national&track=crosspromo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102026.html

China executes head of food and drug industry -- July 10, 2007
China executed the former chief of its food and drug agency on Tuesday for taking bribes and dereliction of duty, amid increasing pressure on the country to improve the safety of its products after a string of highly publicized incidents have raised serious safety concerns over its products
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/china-executes-former-chief-food/story.aspx?guid=%7B970CDBD2-2C6C-4F26-B
EE9-39C620BBAED0%7D&dist=hplatest

AMA's objections to retail-clinics; in-store clinics -- June 26, 2007
"The AMA's policymaking House of Delegates, meeting in Chicago, said lack of regulation at retail clinics might be fostering liability concerns, health risks and potential conflicts of interest between the clinics' nurse practitioners who order prescriptions and the pharmacies that fill them. Often, the clinic is near the pharmacy counter in those retail stores.
Our primary focus is patient safety and patient care, and the retail clinics have a different mission of selling products and prescriptions," said Dr. Rodney Osborn, a Peoria anesthesiologist who is president of the Illinois State Medical Society, an AMA delegation among the most outspoken on scrutiny of retail clinics. "We want these clinics to be accountable."
But doctors say the health insurers have recently created an "unfair playing field" by waiving patients' co-payments at retail health clinics. Doctors say that is designed to get patients to bypass a more comprehensive visit to the doctor's office.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-tue_ama_0626jun26,1,126756.story?coll=chi-health-stories1

Vaccines and Quarantines
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.retirement/browse_thread/thread/cbcbe50d24c942e9/76cc07494bc6442f%2376cc07494bc6442f

FDA to prohibit vitamins, minerals, supplements and even water -- April 25, 2007
by Byron J. Richards, CCN
A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA’s dysfunctional management and legal team – meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.

The FDA management fully believes it is above any law that is in its way or any attempt at Congressional oversight. It gives lip service to its safety mission. It is a cult unto itself.
The FDA fully supports draconian Codex guidelines to regulate dietary supplements and is working with the Germans to concoct technology to brand nutrients as drugs. The FDA management is as bad as any government agency can get. Under the leadership of Andrew von Eschenbach it has plummeted to an all time low.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron23.htm

FDA to eliminate Natural Health Care -- Tom DeWeese -- April 25, 2007
You would no longer dare recommend anyone drink cranberry juice to help with a bladder infection. And please remember, water cures dehydration!
http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom81.htm

Link : for only those who trust the FDA
Consumers have a new online source into the world of government-regulated food, drugs and medical devices. A Web page (www.fda.gov/consumer) developed by the Food and Drug Administration puts a variety of consumer health information — previously scattered throughout the agency's site — onto one user-friendly page with direct links to referenced topics
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/4878072.html

FDA even wants to controls your water -- Bob Unruh -- April 24, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration says vitamins, supplements, herbs and other natural substances, including water when it is used to "treat" dehydration,
Please Read!!! The FDA is trying to regulate all things that are considered by them to be treatment for disease. They want to regulate vitamins, herbs, alternative therapies (things like hot stone therapy), even down to juices and holy water," the warning said. "It might mean having to go to a doctor or medical professional for vitamins."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55370

FDA will allow experimental drugs for general use -- Dec. 12, 2006 -- even in initial stages ( without trial )
Ed: How is this different from Nazism ? Guinea- pig practitioning.
http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=5799210&nav=8H3x

National Health Plan
Cancer screening for uninsured -- April 18, 2007
Bush signed a bill passed by Congress last month extending the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, which provides cancer screening for low-income and uninsured or underinsured women
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uscanc215180702apr21,0,7888574.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print

Remote Access : Wide Area Network
"One beneficiary was the wide area network, which used technology from Siemens’ preferred partner Juniper Networks. It improved the remote access for doctors on the move, enabling them to log in to the hospital information systems from anywhere in the world, regardless of what equipment they were using.
"we used an SSL secure tunnel and the RSA SecurID Key Fob system.”

Another key component of the Siemens solution set is HiMed, a bedside computer console that enables staff to retrieve patient records from the hospital intranet. The data is pooled on a storage area network supplied by sister company Fujitsu Siemens who also provided the servers and PCs.
HiMed can also be used as a patient entertainment and communication system. Every bed has a 15-inch LCD screen attached to a pull-out arm on the wall that lets patients browse the web, watch TV or make and receive phone calls. Through smart card technology they are allocated a phone number for the duration of their stay.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7614

ADAT : Electronic Health Insurance Cards -- Jan 11, 2007
CAMS will form the basis of an electronic health insurance card to be issued by DAK. By integrating the development into the largest Smart Card project in Europe, DAK has achieved significant progress for itself and its partner health insurance companies towards the introduction of an electronic health insurance card for Germany.
With this project, DAK is a forerunner for the nationwide introduction of the electronic health insurance card in Germany
http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.asp?n=1&neID=20070111375.4_a7dd005b0f6a7375

DUSSELDORF, Germany and berkeley heights, NEW .JERSEY USA., Jan. 11, 2007
CAMS will also enable DAK to consolidate data and to manage members' health insurance cards. The management of the members' health insurance cards is the central component for secure communication within the entire Germany-wide IT network infrastructure
Authentidate provides several important scalability components for CAMS as well as the necessary security requirements for DAK. Apart from the establishment of the Certificate Authority for card-to-card authentication, this also includes the implementation of a complete public key infrastructure for X.509 certificates, which also comprises the use of Authentidate's own Online Certificate Status Protocol responder and validation server
Authentidate also provides the security concepts for the entire Card and Application Management System and the Certificate Authority on the basis of the ISO Standard 27001
Authentidate International AG in Dusseldorf, Germany, develops and provides independent business-process solutions enabling customers to simply and quickly integrate digital signatures and time stamps into existing corporate processes. The unique set of solutions can be used for almost any business process
(i.e. billing, workflow, archiving, scanning and e-mail communication) to significantly reduce costs and optimize processing immediately
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-11-2007/0004504257&EDATE=

Future plans-- Dec. 12, 2006
The report recommends the federal government establish "optimally achievable standards" to ensure that each state is made accountable for its public health resources. Also, the report suggests the government grant temporary health benefits for people with little or no insurance during states of emergency.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/12/health/main2251484.shtml

Plans for the future -- Dec, 12, 2006
Technology and equipment must be modernized and research and development must be strengthened.

FDA may allow experimental drugs for use -- Dec. 12, 2006
Ed: How is this different from Nazism ?
http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=5799210&nav=8H3x
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612120323dec12,1,4153982.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

N. Stroke Assoc. endorses VeriChip -- Dec11, 2006
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005820145
Medic Alert also gives immediate ID

Verichip complies with Quality Management System for performance -- Dec. 7, 2006
http://www.dmnnewswire.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=87842

DA makes glucose-sensing chip for diabetes ( diabetics) -- Oct. 25, 2006
VeriChip dispensed ( syringe injection )
Still needs clinical trials and FDA approval
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC) a patent for its syringe-implantable glucose-sensing RFID microchip, Digital Angel announced today. The RFID microchip measures the glucose concentration levels of diabetic patients and will be marketed and distributed by Digital Angels sister company, VeriChip, as an extension to the companys products benefiting people.
The implantable bio-sensor chip has a passive transponder, glucose sensor and integrated circuitry that allow anyone implanted with the microchip to painlessly scan it to determine their level of glucose concentration. The RFID microchip quickly and accurately transmits the glucose data back to a wireless scanner that displays the glucose level. The RFID microchip is powered by the scanner signal, avoiding the need for a battery in the microchip.
This is a landmark development in the world of diabetes management, said Dr. Joseph Feldman, Chairman of the Emergency/Trauma Department of
Hackensack University Medical Center

According to the company, diabetes is a major disease issue in animal livestock today. As a result, the glucose-sensing RFID microchip could have an equally significant impact in monitoring the glucose levels in livestock animals.

“We recognize that extensive work is required to commercialize this product, including the time and investment required for development,
clinical trials and FDA approval, said McGrath.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061025005372&newsLang=en
http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2006/10/23/daily21.html
Although investors were excited about the news, it could take years of clinical trials and regulatory review before the device reaches the market, said Kevin Dede, a securities analyst with San Francisco-based Merriman Curan Ford.
Digital Angel CEO Kevin McGrath acknowledged it would take from two to five years before the chip would be approved for sale in the United States. Dede and McGrath agree that Digital Angel probably will need to team up with a large medical-device company or drug maker to successfully bring it to market.
Digital Angel is working on a medicated patch that can keep the microchip, which does not need a battery, working for up to six months. The patch would be designed to keep the body's natural "scarring" response from blocking the sensor, McGrath said.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/15848983.htm

Comment on glucose-chip from "pendragon" ( rrmb 10-27-06 )
"As a Diabetic diaganosied in January type 2, The only good thing that I have found is the rapid weight loss! Would I ever consider taking the [ glucose ] chip ? Not on your life ! Is it sometimes painful when I draw blood ? Never 'sometimes' , but always. When it doesn't hurt is when i know my sugars have been too high for too long from the perphial neorpathy, one of the ways i found out. ... I test every day also. it is not a teddy bear picnic but I also know in compromising this area I am opening and compromising the future and at some point I take a stand.
Mind you I work in the technology field where badges are required to access your job. I draw the line there. .. I take the stand now and the little pin prick means nothing to me if it means some one got a little more time not to take the mark as a choice. "

Comment from ' if not 4 Him' : ( rrmb 10-27-06)
"My mother is a diabetic and has to check her blood sugar several times a day. Thankfully she only has to take pills instead of shots, but I can assure you that she would gladly take shots or whatever she had to do than to have any type of chip implanted in her.
I'll print out this article and show it to her though. It'll probably scare her and she'll start thinking someday it will be forced on her either with or without her consent/knowledge. I'm also sure she will BOLDLY let all of us family members know that she NEVER, EVER wants this inside her body.......and if I were a diabetic I think I would agree."
"Makes you wonder how long it'll be before they all of a sudden have a "breakthrough" microchip for other health issues"

More comments on glucose-chip ( very interesting ) http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/verichip-patents-glucose-sensing-rfid-chip/

Be wary of FDA " approval "-- Sept. 8, 2006 .. Mengele lives ( Nazi med experimentation)
Medical experiments could be carried out in the United States on uninformed patients under a rule change proposed by the Food and Drug Administration, charges a California pro-family group..
The plan is in a rule proposed by the FDA regarding "emergency research" that scientists and doctors could conduct on unconscious or otherwise incapacitated patients, said Richard Ackerman of the Pro-Life Law Center.

The proposed rules, known as "Guidance for Institutional Review Boards, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors: Exception from Informed Consent for Emergency Research," are scheduled for a public hearing next month.
The proposal would allow the use of any "investigational new drug application" or "investigational device" on people who have a life-threatening medical condition for which other treatments are unsatisfactory. It applies in situations where the patients are unconscious and cannot give consent and none of their representatives is available.

The Pro-Family Law Center does not accept the idea that the U.S. government can order any human experimentation without valid informed consent," Ackerman said in a statement. "PFLC is urging all Christians, Jews, and patients' rights advocates to challenge these proposed regulations
There will be a subclass of patients who can't give consent themselves, or don't have a representative," he said. That concept was the same used by the Nazis, who considered some groups of people less than human
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51880

Puerto Rico implants Verichip in memory loss patients -- July 3, 2006
Ed: this takes it out of the "voluntary" range
"It is a way to offer an additional service because the chip it going to be used (Ed: already predetermined )
on a population that has memory problems ... or great health problems," said Nelson Martinez, coordinator of operations for Hostos Medical Services.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060702/APF/607020769
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/14954302.htm

Hackensack and Verichip websites omit info -- July 17, 2006 Thomas Keister
From American Chronicle :
"Okay, while I'm not saying that there aren't positive aspects to this idea, there are a couple of things, however, that don't quite jibe right when you look a good look at this.
Horizon vice-president and chief medical officer Dr. Richard Popiel confirmed the project was being conducted for the next two years to gauge whether or not to expand the program,
yet neither Horizon nor VeriChip Corporation, the manufacturer of the chips and detection equipment, make any mention of the project on their websites.
What's more, Hackensack University Medical Center already have the detection equipment, as they are part of VeriChip's development program.
Don't know about you, but I almost don't want to know about what other kinds of tests have been going on."
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11561

Trial Results missing for 280 patients being tested-- July 22, 2006
The chips will be provided free-of-charge to patients who sign up to the project, which is being funded by HBCBSNJ. It was not clear at time of publication whether the trial results will be published, but the insurer will use the results of the trial to see whether it should be expanded.
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2017

Insurance Co. and  Med center target those with chronic conditions for Verichip implant-- July 15, 2006
Horizon Blue Cross, Blue Shield
Ed: Will insurance eventually be denied to those without a verichip? Time will tell.
(Eventually, will it be "Access Denied" ?  ...yet they still claim it is "voluntary")
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0706/344686.html

Hackensack uses VeriMed system -- July 17, 2006
VeriChip calls the RFID a personal health record module. The information on the module will include medical information from Horizon BCBSNJ's claim records, such as lab test data and pharmacy prescription information. This module emits a 16-digit number that links the patient to their electronic medical record when a special hand-held scanner is waved over it.
http://feed.insnews.org/v-cgi/feeds.cgi?feedid=150&story_id=1993148

Citzenship ID for Medicaid recipients expected -- June 24, 2006
June 14, 2006 – States are bracing for the impact of a new rule from Health and Human Services that mandates Medicaid participants show proof of citizenship. This health program for the poor has always been only for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, but this is the first time the federal government has told states they must check to be sure those seeking help have proof of citizenship. The order is effective on July 1, (2006).
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Medicaid/6-06-14-StatesBrace.htm

Constantly monitored ; info databased for your health insurer -- July 22, 2006
“Potentially, when you scan an animal soon in Europe, you’ll get a unique identifying number, their core body temperature and their blood glucose level.
You can imagine where I’m leading now,” Dr. Feldman said
The Verichip is FDA approved. Insurance does not cover it yet, ( Ed: see Rev. 16:2 ) but the manufacturer is working on the problem.
http://www.49abcnews.com/news/2006/jul/21/computer_chip_gives_doctors_information_during_eme/

FDA does not approve of info stored on chip -- April 2002
While the FDA did not approve storing medical information on the chip the device's ID can be cross-referenced with a computer database holding the patient's records.
Newer versions of the VeriChip will hold up to a megabyte of programmable data, while others will be able to
monitor and transmit bio-information information, and some will include a global positioning tracking feature, incorporating Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) Technology
US privacy advocates have expressed serious concerns about the possibility that such ID chips may be involuntary planted in the future be used to track and monitor the movements of dissidents in the future.[ Ed: those who are politically incorrect ]
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=156

Citizenship ID ( smart card ) expected for medicaid -- June 24, 2006
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Medicaid/6-06-14-StatesBrace.htm

Will all mentally disabled be chipped ? -- June 1, 2006
Will that lead to all elderly and handicapped to be chipped ?
It's moving fast.
So far, Silverman has wanted VeriChip for immigrants and workers.
"Silverman, however, did take issue with one aspect of the bill, the lack of an exemption for the guardians of high-risk patients with dementia"
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=3013
VeriChip says this controversial application is well suited for people with dementia, Alzheimer's disease or those likely to be brought into a hospital emergency room unconscious or unable to speak. To read the chip a doctor or nurse waves a handheld scanner over a patient's arm. The chip, about the size of a grain of rice and implanted just under the skin, doesn't contain personal information. Rather, it transmits a 16-digit number to the scanner. The medical staff then inputs the number into a secured database to retrieve the patient's medical records
http://yahoo.smartmoney.com/undertheradar/index.cfm?story=20060602&afl=yahoo

Ed: This voluntary business is a big hoax. To deny financial access ( groceries, food) without the chip cancels out any "options".
Verichip is the ultimate-ultimatum chip. Chip or die.

Australian smart card for health care -- May 7, 2006
The government will do whatever it takes in terms of protecting the national interest and protecting individual interests from terrorism."
Privacy advocates, civil libertarians and business groups have been alarmed by the lack of detail about the smart card, and say it is a national ID card by stealth.
"It's all very well saying it is not legally compulsory, but if no-one can access health services or PBS medicines without it, this is really a compulsory card by stealth," Australian Privacy Foundation deputy chairman David Vaile said. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18956304%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/04/1325248&mode=nocomment

Health Card and fears
"The people in power constantly seek to increase their power, and the easiest way to do this is through fear. Whether it's fear of terrorism or fear of benefits fraud, some politicians and administrators will try to manipulate voters into giving up their civil rights. " [ Ed: or fear of "access denied" ]
"It is not about security, it is not about fraud. It is about total control of the population. "
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18991533%5E15309%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Speaking out of both sides of the mouth -- April 26, 2006 --- Access card
"It will be necessary for everybody who needs a card to apply for one," he said.
"It will not be compulsory to have the card."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/health-smart-card-to-replace-17-cards/2006/04/26/1145861404626.html

Allevo Health-Care Monitoring, Tracking -- Feb. 7, 2006 Allevo of Finland
Nedap's iO TouchPro product, a combination of the iO concept for Care registration
and Nokia Field Force Solution.
The way it works is with iO, every client [ Ed: patient ] is provided with a contact free chip card when they become Allevo clients. At each visit, the nurse touches the chip card using a Nokia 3220 phone with RFID reader to register their visit, eliminating the need to fill in forms and giving the nurse the most up-to-date information on the client.
The way it works is with iO, every client is provided with a contact free chip card when they become Allevo clients [Ed: patients] . At each visit, the nurse touches the chip card using a Nokia 3220 phone with RFID reader to register their visit, eliminating the need to fill in forms and giving the nurse the most up-to-date information on the client.
The controversial RFID technology is being used in human-implantable chips [ Ed: VeriChip] .
Six Sigma Security, Inc, announced yesterday the installation and integration of the access control module of VeriChip Corp's VeriGuard Security Suite, including VeriChip's human-implantable RFID microchip, as part of a project for www.CityWatcher.com
http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2006/02/07/1348936.htm
Netherlands http://www.dmeurope.com/?ArticleID=13228
Ireland http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1906

Six Sigma Security : Employees required to have VeriChip - Feb. 9, 2006 ( CityWatchers)
http://cincinnati.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=61044&type_news=latest
6 Sigma News http://www.sixsigmazone.com/
SSS Conference March 29, 2006 Las Vegas http://www.gsssa.com/

Nokia Tag reader -- Feb. 10, 2006
Based on a new short-range wireless specification, the NFC technology has been built into Nokia's 3220 mobile phone so that it can act as an RFID tag reader.
Finnish home health care firm Allévo is using the phone along with software from Nedap N.V. to centrally register, update and store information on the patients it visits. Allévo will provide every patient with a chip card when they first sign up to the service. At each subsequent visit, a nurse touches the patient's chip card using the Nokia phone to register thus eliminating the need to fill in forms and allowing the care giver access to the latest patient data.
Healthcare providers, meanwhile, are examining the technology with an eye towards maintaining patient records and tracking valuable assets on site. (See Marketplace Left to Define UWB.)
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=88378

VeriChip ... e-commerce; Health Information ; ID databases - Jan. 6, 2006
"The VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder System consists of an implantable RFID microtransponder, an inserter, a proprietary hand-held scanner, and secure database containing the patient approved healthcare information....
providing a tamper-proof means of identification for enhanced e-commerce security.
VeriChip is not an FDA-regulated device with regard to its security, financial, personal identification or safety applications
If popular, the success of the medical applications of the VeriChip may herald further uses for security, identification and e-commerce"
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3339/

Ed:
From what I gather, the VeriChip is FDA approved * ONLY * if it is implanted in the muscle of the forearm.
It is * NOT * FDA approved if implanted in the right hand or forehead.
Apparently, there is not enough muscle to secure it permanently in place, it would seem.
Would it then be like an embolism and travel to the brain or heart ?
Would the capsule break, and leak deadly lithium and polymers ? Something to consider.
Time will tell.
We know for a fact that it does something grevious to one's body-- Rev. 16:2

Wired for Health Care Quality Act -- Dec. 8, 2005
The U.S. Senate has passed the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, which promotes a collaboration between the Health and Human Services Department that will streamline the massively ineffective information technology systems currently used in healthcare
http://www.newstarget.com/015471.html
About 10,000 Americans have already made their health records electronic and accessible anywhere using the internet with a free online service. And 60 people have had computer chips implanted into their arms to provide access to their electronic medial records, according VeriChip, a Delray Beach, Florida, company that received Food and Drug Administration approval last year to market the chips
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69630,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_9

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center -- Nov. 22, 2005
COLTON, California — Soon the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center may be recruiting some patients to carry their medical history with them at all times — in a tiny microchip embedded under the skin.

The Board of Supervisors will vote today [ Ed. Tuesday Nov. 22 ] on whether to approve a pilot program at the hospital in which at least 50 volunteers will have a microchip inserted into their upper right arm.

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center will be teaming up with VeriChip Corporation for the four-month program, according to the Board's staff report.

The company has established an infrastructure of scanners across the country.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/113266647489899.html



Applied MEMS ... medgadget

VeriChip : better than a key fob ? -- Nov. 21, 2005 ( until your read Rev. 14:9-11 )
Then again, given the frequency that people lose their keys, maybe the VeriChip implant is the way to go. The article pointed out that sixty Americans now have the chip -- looks like others could use some encouragement.
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/11/government_push.html

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/02/verichip.html

VeriChip VIDEO http://wusatv9.com/health/health_article.aspx?storyid=37422

Senate passes bill: patients must have access token for EMRs.... VeriMed System --- 11- 05
Ed : this paves the way for VeriChip to be used by all to access Electronic Medical Records
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7001103374

RFID in healthcare
http://www.idtechex.com/products/en/articles/00000470.asp

Background:

HIT Network ( database centers) http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2004/hhshitpr.htm

National Institutes of Health ... NIH med-line
mental-health; genes; human clinical trials; behavior etc.
http://www.nih.gov/
( branch ) NCCAM = Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/
Spirituality and health
manipulative therapies http://nccam.nih.gov/news/upcomingmeetings/manual-conference.htm

Nov. 1-05 .... Bush speaks at NIH about flu
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1825876,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102900935.html

National Response Plan -- integrated networking; federal, state, local.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0581.xml

NIMS-- Nat'l Incident Management System ( FEMA included)
share a common focus, and will be able to place full emphasis on incident management when a homeland security incident occurs -- whether terrorism or natural disaster
http://www.fema.gov/nims/

"The Decade of Health Information and Technology" -- July 22, 2004
The government also plans to organize a consortium of private companies to plan, build and operate health information networks. A Health Information Technology Leadership Panel of industry executives and health care experts will be created to advise the government on the costs and benefits of health technology, and will report in the autumn.

Among other steps, the government will create a Web site for Medicare beneficiaries to gain access to customized information about services they have received.
Without computer-based patient records, those errors are not going to be reduced," said Thomas Handler, a research director at Gartner, the technology research firm.
http://www.iht.com/articles/530520.html
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=530520.html

No Medical Privacy -- Feb. 11, 2006 by Jon Dougherty
" Health Information Technology Promotion " could damage state medical confidentiality provisions by granting the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary legal authority to "preempt state laws ensuring privacy rights" and establish a federal standard that does not guarantee the right to "give or withhold one's consent before one's personal health information is shared with others."
"Thus," the institute concludes, "if citizens cannot decide who can see their personal health information, they have no true privacy rights."

"Patients will definitely not benefit from this type of program because they do not control who has access to their sensitive identifiable medical records in any meaningful way."
According to a congressional summary, the measure amends the Social Security Act "to encourage the dissemination, security, confidentiality, and usefulness of health information technology."

The AAPS's [ Amer. Assoc. Physicians and Surgeons ] .. [ Jane ] Orient said the "so-called HIPAA Privacy Rule, which is in fact a disclosure rule, does not provide any meaningful privacy protections such as those enshrined in Constitutional law and medical ethics. Therefore a national health information system would effectively eliminate any and all patient consent to the release of their records by placing the records online. Patients would have virtually no control over who can sneak-a-peak at their very private and sensitive medical records."
"The bottom line is that giving the federal government the power to decide who can see individuals' personal health information is not true health privacy," said AAPS. "Rather, it's actually an infringement on individuals' privacy and liberty," http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48775

Investigation into VeriChip
Once an identification number is retrieved from the chip, the user can use it to access any information -- without making the product a medical device," said David Hughes, vice president of Technology Sourcing International, a consultant to Applied Digital Solutions helping the company navigate the FDA approval process.
http://www.g4techtv.com/techtvvault/features/37762/FDA_Launches_Investigation_Into_VeriChip.html

International Health Care Alliance
NEWTON, Mass., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- BBK Healthcare, Inc. (BBK) today announced the appointment of five individuals to key posts within the agency as part of an internal reorganization to meet the demands of an increasingly global marketplace.
These key posts will be held by Matthew Kibby (European Operations), Karen Rumrill (North American Operations), Linda Wolf (Emerging Markets and Services), Rob Laurens (EP Studio), and Victor Bradley (Global Technology).
Joan F. Bachenheimer, BBK founding principal
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-21-2004/0002255434&EDATE=

Including "Steps to a healthier U.S."

Health-Medical news http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

VeriChip news http://news.surfwax.com/biz/files/Applied_Digital_Solutions.html

Chip and Allergies http://news.surfwax.com/health/files/Allergy.html

VeriChip Pocket Reader



Mobile scanning of the VeriChip

The beige plastic scanners, which resemble TV remote controls, have screens that display a 16-digit number when passed within six inches of a chip.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050927/NEWS0110/50927032/1260

" E-health means family doctors can book hospital appointments online or quickly access electronic records on patients' treatments in the past." (eu observer)

Medical Diplomacy
" The Department of Health and Human Services.....
It is a department that interacts with every man, woman and child every day of their life," [ Tommy ] Thompson said.
http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005101701010

What is Tamiflu ?
Tamiflu is a prescription pill designed to treat regular flu.
The American Medical Association is against personal stockpiling and says the misuse of Tamiflu could lead to drug-resistant flu strains.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1258159

What is Verispan ?
Verispan, a Pennsylvania-based company that monitors pharmacy sales.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1258159

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