e-health; medical records, VeriChip

Apocalyptic Hope ..... e-health pg 1

e-health continued page 2 .... includes all categories, topics

EMR electronic medical records .... salisbury-associates

VeriChips and Electronic Records
Wired for Health Care Quality ... Act -- Nov. 19, 2005
The Wired for Health Care Quality Act encourages the Health and Human Services Department to form a
public-private partnership (Ed : gov- biz ) to identify ways to streamline the health care system's information technology. Hospitals and other health care providers could apply for grants [ Ed : grants work wonders] to help them implement new technologies.
A system that makes patient records available instantly also would reduce medical errors, said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the bill's nearly 40 sponsors

Dr. Deborah Peel, president of the watchdog group Patient Privacy Rights, complained that the bill doesn't include enough protections to keep personal information out of the hands of people who shouldn't have it _ such as employers, who could use it to discriminate against employees and potential hires.

And 60 people have had computer chips implanted into their arms to provide access to their electronic medial records, according VeriChip Corp., a Delray Beach, Fla., company that received Food and Drug Administration approval last year to market the chips.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802077.html
and also
http://kutv.com/seenon/local_story_360161010.html

Tamiflu deaths under probe --Nov. 17, 2005
Tamiflu, invented by the US company Gilead and licensed to Roche in 1996, has proven effective against influenza
A and B and H5N1 bird flu virus, which is threatening the world.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the 12 deaths under investigation included one suicide, four cases of sudden death and four cases of cardiac arrest. There were also cases of pneumonia, asphyxiation and acute pancreatitis.

The FDA added that it was concerned that 32 psychiatric events, such as hallucinations and abnormal behavior, had also been reported in children who took Tamiflu.
The "most alarming" psychiatric events, according to the FDA, included two cases in which a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old jumped out of second-floor windows of their homes after receiving two doses of Tamiflu. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/18/content_3801207.htm

Free-for-all over generic drugs in Europe -- James Kanter IHT
Drugs ( meds ) and the desperate -- Nov. 15, 2005
Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, the British medical journal, cites "an unholy alliance" between companies and desperate patients who hope that new medicines will help them.
At the same time, pharmaceutical companies make the doctors a prime target of their marketing. According to Jon Hess of Cutting Edge Information, a research company, total ad spending by drug companies in Europe is only 13 percent lower than in the United States. On both sides of the Atlantic, drug companies spend about
50 percent more promoting product awareness than they do for research and development,
according to Stewart Adkins of Lehman Brothers
Ed : Seduction ....
Companies also invite doctors to lavish conferences or finance research, a practice that raises questions about the findings. Top British cardiologists can collect more than £5,000, or $8,700, for an hour of lecturing to colleagues, and they also may be paid for articles that review drugs in medical journals, according to a report by members of the British House of Commons in April. Jim Kennedy, a family doctor in London and a spokesman for the Royal College of General Practitioners, said drug companies often paid hospitals and clinics in Britain and elsewhere in Europe to conduct research geared more toward use of a specific drug than ascertaining its safety or medical valu
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/15/business/phsell.php

Adjuvants -- Nov. 14, 2005
National Institutes of Health researchers now are working with adjuvants, substances that can be added to a vaccine to enhance the body's immune response. Fauci said it should be known by next spring if that approach will work with the H5N1 vaccine.
If the adjuvants are effective, it still could be two years before large amounts of H5N1 vaccine are available for immunizing Americans, he said.
The Health and Human Services Department also outlined plans to entice the pharmaceutical industry to beef up domestic vaccine production. Ultimately, it wants enough production capacity to vaccinate the entire U.S. population within six months of the onset of a pandemic.
http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/nov05/370200.asp

UN - WHO .... Global Flu-Plan ... Nov. 7-9 Geneva, Switzerland
The U.S. government has devoted a total of some $38 million to our international efforts to support the most affected countries, which are in need of capacity building: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia,” said
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky October 21 at a press briefing on her return from a Southeast Asia trip focused on the issue.
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=October&x=20051027131031cmretrop0.1054193&t=live
feeds/wf-latest.html

Nov. 9-11 Innovative Health Technology ; Washington D. C. ----- Leavitt-Brailer
Second meeting of International Partnership began in Sept. at the UN
In addition, thought leaders such as Steve Case, Co-Founder of America Online and Chairman and CEO of Revolution;
Janet Woodcock, MD, Acting Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., National Health Information Technology Coordinator [ Ed : EMRs electronic med records]
for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
and John W. Loonsk, MD, Associate Director for Informatics with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
will demonstrate successful application of innovation in all its forms, and will provide insight to help resolve issues such as patient safety, clinical quality, access, and margins.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-30-2005/0004135748&EDATE=

Hospitals offer alternative therapies: Reiki, bedscapes, etc. -- Oct. 30, 2005
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/NEWS06/510300315/1006/NEWS01
[ Ed : "bedscapes" = shades of "Soylent Green"....blissful euthanasia ]

U.S. gears up for flu vaccine -- Oct. 28, 2005
dependent upon France, England, Switzerland
Chiron won a $62.5 million federal contract Thursday to help produce a vaccine to counter the threat of a bird-flu pandemic. The contract is the second-largest award for bird-flu vaccines announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Last month, the agency awarded $100 million to Sanofi-Aventis of France.
Both contracts are for a vaccine aimed at defeating the virus' most virulent strain, H5N1

Chiron, a biotechnology company in Emeryville, California
The government also wants to store enough anti-viral medicine -- such as Tamiflu, developed by Gilead Sciences of Foster City and produced by Roche [ Ed: Switzerland] -- to treat an additional 20 million people [ Ed: 40 million total ]

No one is even sure if the vaccine will work because the government hasn't had a chance to test it yet. That will occur only after it is delivered by Chiron. Hall said the buy-now-test-later arrangement has been done before
Chiron spokeswoman Alison Marquiss said the vaccine would be produced at the company's factory in Liverpool, England, where it also makes its standard seasonal flu vaccine, Fluvirin.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/business/technology/13019054.htm
The massive out-of-budget expenditure, in an amendment to a health, education and labor spending bill, would increase stockpiles of the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza,
http://www.suntimes.com/output/health/cst-nws-flu28.html

Base Closings in November of 2005
WASHINGTON -- The House voted overwhelmingly to allow the first round of U.S. military base closures and consolidations in a decade, clearing the way for facilities across the country to start shutting their doors as early as next month [ Ed: November '05] . In a 324-85 vote, the House refused to veto the final report of the 2005 base-closing commission, meaning the report seems all but certain to become law in mid-November.
www.statesman.com

Flu victims ( and suspects too ) may be locked up
HEALTH officials and police have sweeping powers to confine people in their homes and fine them $20,000 for breaching orders if a deadly flu pandemic strikes here.
People suspected of coming into contact with the virus or showing signs of being infected could be forced into home detention and have their movements restricted under the plan. [ Ed: ankle rfid ? ]
Blood tests could be conducted on those suspected of carrying the virus, by force if necessary.

Health workers and police have been already armed under the Victorian Health Act with powers to use "any force necessary" to make people comply.
A spokesman for the Department of Human Services said yesterday chief health officer Dr Robert Hall had emergency powers available to confine or quarantine people if there was a risk to public health

The Federal Government's pandemic flu plan says "people may be quarantined in their own homes or in another facility. In most cases, quarantine is voluntary, however state, territory and the Australian governments have authority to compel quarantine to protect the public".
Health authorities interstate and *overseas are preparing similar emergency powers* to halt the spread of the bird flu.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17014504-2,00.html

Flu plan: quarantines, travel restrictions within weeks -- Oct. 8, 2005
Pandemic Influenza Strategic Plan
released later this month
The 381-page plan calls for quarantine and travel restrictions but concedes that such measures "are unlikely to delay introduction of pandemic disease into the U.S. by more than a month or two."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/08/politics/08flu.html?ei=5090&en=fe3a7bec6c129653&ex=1286424000&partner=rssuserland&emc=r
ss&pagewanted=print

Creating the human-avian flu germ
brilliant scientist, like the ones at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and over in the Netherlands. In high-security labs, they're taking genes from the current H5N1 virus and mixing them with human flu viruses to see if it's possible to create a pandemic virus that doesn't yet exist. That way, scientists could work on a vaccine for that virus before a worldwide epidemic -- Times Herald Record NY
www.recordonline.com

If at first you don't succeed ..... try, try again

Scientists replicate 1918 flu virus ( pandemic ) -- Oct. 5, 2005
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/05/D8D20EM00.html
http://about.upi.com/products/health_business/UPI-20051005-011130-3944R

Flu : Liam Donaldson-- Oct. 21, 2005
There have been previous pandemics of influenza and they probably started by the mixing of an animal or bird flu virus with a human flu virus to produce a new strain of flu.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4364990.stm

Senate approves 8 BBBillion dollar health PLAN -- Oct. 28, 2005
"The plan -- attached to a larger health spending bill expected to pass this week -- also will increase disease surveillance and enhance the infrastructure needed to respond to a pandemic
but after the plan's sponsors agreed to give the White House more say over how the funds are spent, the amendment passed with a voice vote"
Plan ( preparedness strategy ) : "including protection from vaccine-related lawsuits"

If the Administration does come up with a good action plan, we won't have lost any time," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the amendment's chief sponsor.
The vote came just hours after Leavitt announced a $62.5 million contract with British vaccine maker Chiron Corp. to produce vaccine against H5N1, the virus causing avian flu
The deal was the second announced this fall. Federal health officials signed another $100 million vaccine pact with Sanofi-Pasteur [ Ed : France] in late August.

Government plans call for amassing 20 million vaccine doses [ Ed : preventive] and the same number of
anti-virals [ Ed: already contracted the flu ] , including Roche's Tamiflu, but so far, U.S. stockpiles total only about 2.3 million doses of Tamiflu, which would protect less than 1 percent of the population.
http://www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20051027-043640-8628r

US hosts 80 reps for pharmaceutical conference in Wash. D.C. -- Oct. 6, 2005
President Bush and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt met with
leaders of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry October 7 about their role in the prevention of an influenza pandemic. (See related article.
Prior to 1997, when human cases of H5N1 first appeared in Hong Kong, health officials thought that people were not susceptible to this strain of bird flu.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official in a press briefing. Bird flu has become the top priority for USAID Director Andrew Natsios, he added.

GOAL -- containment: Planning rapid action
quoting at length an anonymous HHS official on transparency and the need to be open, no secrets:
What we’re trying to do is encourage in a nonthreatening way and a very collaborative way that a community of nations like this partnership has a collective responsibility,” said a senior official from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)......"for the good of the rest of mankind",
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Oct/08-60246.html

Pharmaceutical involvement --Oct. 6, 2005
1st Meeting of the Int. Partnership of Avian and Pandemic Influenza ... IPAPI
Developing stockpiles of drugs effective against flu and working on vaccines against flu are two elements of the plan, and President Bush brought representatives of major drug companies such as Merck and Company Inc., GlaxoSmithKline Inc. and Aventis Pasteur MSD to the White House to discuss those efforts)
Secretary Leavitt is leading the effort to focus the pharmaceutical industry on bird flu.

Leavitt said his agency is completing an influenza pandemic preparedness plan to be issued in later October.
The plan will deal with vaccines, drugs, disease surveillance and public information, he said.
The secretary is also one of the U.S. leaders participating in the first organizational session of the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, being held at the U.S. State Department October 6-7. http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=October&x=20051007163052cmretrop0.2114832&t=live
feeds/wf-latest.html

Flu : indemnity -- Oct. 9, 2005
Executives were concerned about greater protection from litigation. If healthy people suffer side effects from a vaccine, manufacturers can face huge lawsuits, Leavitt said.
"We're going to have to deal with the indemnity issue," he said. "Also, if we're to build additional capacity with the speed necessary for readiness, we're going to have to create a streamlined regulatory process for the development of new facilities."
Leavitt said the government would also have to assure vaccine manufacturers that they'll have a market for the extra product that they make [ Ed: mandated ?]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-07-bird-flu_x.htm

Sept. 14, 2005 : Bush calls for International Partnership on flu at the United Nations
The president warned that Avian influenza, or bird flu, presents a new threat to public health and if left unchallenged "this virus could become the first pandemic of the 21st Century." He announced the creation of a new
"International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza." IPAPI
http://usinfo.state.gov/usinfo/Archive/2005/Sep/14-339908.html

June 6, 2005 -- Collaboration and Interoperabilty for medical IT
PPP Public - Private Partnership ( UN goals )
The national strategy for achieving interoperability of digital health information is for federal agencies -- who pay for more than one-third of all health care in the country -- to work with private-sector health care providers and employers in developing and adopting an architecture, standards and certification process," Secretary Leavitt said.

An electronic health record is a digital collection of a patient’s medical history and could include items like diagnosed medical conditions, prescribed medications, vital signs, immunizations, lab results, and personal characteristics like age and weight
[ Ed : not to mention all the mental-health screening that the Administration wants ]
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050606.html

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Compulsory Mental health screening
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/06/23/bush_to_impose_psychiatric_drug_regime.htm
July 2004
The president's commission found that "despite their prevalence,mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended comprehensivemental health screening for "consumers of all ages," includingpreschool children.
The commission also recommended "Linkage [of screening] withtreatment and supports" including "state-of-the-art treatments"using "specific medications [ Ed : drugs ] for specific conditions."
The commissioncommended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a"model" medication treatment plan that "illustrates an evidence-basedpractice that results in better consumer outcomes."

But the Texas project, which promotes the use of newer, moreexpensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs, sparked offcontroversy when Allen Jones, an employee of the PennsylvaniaOffice of the Inspector General, revealed that key officialswith influence over the medication plan in his state receivedmoney and perks from drug companies with a stake in the medicationalgorithm (15 May, p1153). He was sacked this week for speakingto the BMJ and the New York Times.

Mr Jones told the BMJ that the same "political/pharmaceuticalalliance" that generated the Texas project was behind the recommendationsof the New Freedom Commission, which, according to his whistleblowerreport, were "poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensivenational policy to treat mental illness with expensive, patentedmedications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects,and to force private insurers to pick up more of the tab" (http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf).
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458

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January 2004 : Bush calls for Digitized health records
Asked to grade the Bush-created office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Powner gave the office an "A" for leadership and vision but an incomplete grade for implementation. In January 2004, Bush called for the health care industry to embrace electronic health records, with the records available to all U.S. residents by 2014.
http://mirc.gsf.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=125

$139 Million in grants for digitized medical records
The Health and Human Services Department on Wednesday announced US$139 million in grants to help make real President George W. Bush's push for electronic health records for most Americans within a decade.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/10/15/2003206963

Digital form
we want most Americans to have electronic health care records. That means your records. And you'll hear us talking about it here today, I'll try not -- I'll try to give it my best shot. Your records are on -- in a digital form that can be transformed, transferred over the Internet,
And we believe we can change how health care uses IT. [ Ed: information technology ]
And it starts with the federal government.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040527-5.html
http://news.com.com/Bush+calls+for+computerized+medical+records/2100-1015_3-5561836.html
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15,000 ACTIVE ( external locators) rfid tags for health equipment -- Oct. 6, 2005
VeriChip Corporation believes that its asset tag is the smallest, longest-lasting active RFID tag on the market, making it ideal for the protection and tracking of even small pieces of medical equipment. Once the tags are attached to desired items, hospital staff can quickly locate what they need when they need it on an easy-to-use electronic floor plan. This tagged equipment is also protected from theft by triggering alarms if items are taken from designated areas, and helps the hospital with its regulatory compliance and prevention of infection through the accidental use of "dirty" equipment.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051006005425&newsLang=en

Combo : Grocery Store and Health Clinic -- Sept. 27, 2005
Will it be possible to "get chipped" at your local grocery store ???
"Quick Care" ......"Minute Clinics" --- in Twin Cities [ Ed: Digital Angel borders the Twin Cities ]

"HealthPartners Central Minnesota Clinics will open a clinic in Cash Wise Foods geared toward people with little time.
The clinic in Waite Park, to be staffed with nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, will treat small health issues — no appointments needed — that can be addressed in less than15 minutes
Clinic staff will administer vaccines [ Ed: injections ] and health screenings, and they will be able to write
most prescriptions."

HealthPartners Medical Director Julie Johnson will have some oversight and QuickCare will have the same quality protocols as the HealthPartners clinic. QuickCare will be integrated with HealthPartners' electronic medical records, Vinson said.

"It's a national trend," HealthPartners Executive Director Andy Vinson said

We think it complements the services we offer in terms of pharmacy, and it's an added convenience for the customer," Coborn's Chief Operating Officer Bob Thueringer said. Cash Wise is part of the chain of Coborn's grocery stores.
QuickCare, which will open Oct. 22, will be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday,
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays.
http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+437391

Plan for U.S. Citizens to take the VeriChip -- Tony Glover
July 25, 2005-- President Bush's former health secretary Tommy Thompson is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip inserted under their skin, The Business has learned.
Thompson, now a director of Applied Digital Solutions, the company that makes the chips, intends to publish the proposal in the next 50 days, [ Ed: Fall of 2005 ]
by which time he plans to have had a VeriChip inserted in his arm. Thompson believes the capsules could help save thousands of lives every year.

According to Procter, the chips can also be used for financial transactions.
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/StoriesAll.aspx?StoryID=1B23A31F-970D-4BB8-B5D6-D5F1043585C1&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-43
89-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE
and also at:
http://www.rednova.com/news/health/196561/health_chips_could_help_patients_in_us/

The New Healthcare System
by Christopher S. Bentley
September 5, 2005 Issue; Posted Online: August 24, 2005
Excerpts only: Fair educational use

"Applied Digital wants millions of Americans to be implanted with an RFID chip for medical purposes, and the Frist-Clinton bill (S. 1262) would pave the way.......
On July 31, London’s The Business reported that Thompson “is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having [an RFID] chip inserted under their skin.” Scott Silverman, CEO of Applied Digital, told WebMD Medical News on July 27 that “some 2,000 people worldwide are using” his company’s implants. “But,” the WebMD report noted, “soon he expects that millions of people will get VeriChip implants every year.” ............

Skeptics will dismiss Silverman’s optimistic business forecast as greatly exaggerated, and those with a natural distrust of polls will question the validity of the data. But putting that aside for a moment, consider the fact that Applied Digital is positioning itself to get some major help — from the federal government.
According to The Business report, “the RFID capsules would be linked to a computerized database being created by the US Department of Health to store and manage the nation’s health records.” Thompson said he “intends to publish the proposal in the next 50 days, by which time he plans to have had a VeriChip inserted in his arm.” The former HHS secretary is definitely positioned to use his past employment to help his new employer.

If this socialist healthcare scheme is allowed to pass, and Applied Digital succeeds in partnering with government, then Americans will be seduced into accepting a “seamless” nationalized healthcare system. But those who participate will also end up with a medical ID implant that will undoubtedly morph into a mandatory national ID.

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2089.shtml
http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybng&story_id=80474478&ID=blackenterprise
http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybng&story_id=80474478&ID=blackenterprise&p=1

Hurricanes, Health Records and you -- Sept. 23, 2005
In the wake of Katrina, the federal government responded by beginning to collect pharmacy, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and other medical information for a centralized database that doctors can use as they treat displaced patients.
when doctors and hospitals have your records they’re called electronic medical records, or EMRs,
but once you have them, they’re called personal health records, or PHRs

3 sites :
The American Medical Association’s iHealthRecord.org coordinates with more than 100,000 doctors’ own Web sites; if your physician is one of them, that’s a logical choice.
WebMD’s Health Manager offers storage along with many interactive features and tests.
FollowMe is a five-year-old service that also allows groups — employers or hospitals — to offer PHRs as a service to customers or employees. All these sites, of course, emphasize high security standards: You control access to your records

One Solution with chip
The ultimate solution may be that provided by a service called VeriMed. As do the other providers, VeriMed stores your PHR online — but then also provides a tiny chip that is implanted, usually under the skin of your upper arm, containing a unique 16 digit number.
Even if you are unconscious, a VeriMed scanner can read that number from your chip and locate your health records online. VeriMed offers the scanners to hospital emergency rooms for free."

VA, Kaiser and others have Online Medical services

Networking
"On the Web, patients can make appointments, check on lab and other test results and view some of their medical records. Our clinics are all linked together so a patient being seen at one center can have her record, lab results and even digital x-rays viewed by a specialist at another center. If needed, we also have a video system where a specialist can talk and see a patient who is in another center.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9431650/

VeriChip to display VeriMed in D.C. for emergency-physicians -- Sept 22, 2005
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 2005--
VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ:ADSX) and the world's premier RFID company for people, announced today its plans to demonstrate the world's first FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip and its VeriMed(TM) application at the American College of Emergency Physicians' (ACEP) Scientific Assembly, taking place September 26-29, 2005 in Washington, D.C. At this conference, attended by some 5,000 emergency physicians from across the U.S. and around the world, the VeriMed patient identification system will demonstrate how implantable RFID microchips can provide access to rapid, accurate and secure patient identification, coupled with the patient's own medical information, so crucial in emergency departments today.

"Integrating the VeriMed system into the hospital emergency room setting ensures that ER physicians get the critical patient information they need when it matters most," stated Kevin McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer of VeriChip Corporation. "We're looking forward to demonstrating the product at ACEP and to helping emergency centers everywhere understand how they can reduce treatment delays and medical errors through the use of our FDA-cleared technology
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050922005357&newsLang=en

Personal observation:
We have been to an emergency room this month visiting a friend.
Our friend was medicated and in an altered state of mind and did not recognize us ( though should have). .
This person was fully alert and talking upon being carried from their residence a few hours earlier.
Through out our visits to the hospital, our friend was constantly on medication and in a very
acquiescent disposition, answering "yes" to many questions that were not necessarily a "yes".

We thought : "What if the staff were to ask our Christian friend if they could inject so-and-so for easier access to their medical file ? Most likely our friend would have said yes, even though our friend is against the 666 Mark of the Beast. Our friend would not have made the close-connection, nor had the will to resist under so much medication.

Do all of us have our guard up ? Do we all see how easily this could come upon us, unless we have settled it in our mind to resist the System while we still have a choice ?
As a snare shall it come upon the whole world .... Luke 21:35

T Thompson, promoter of organ donations -- Aug 2005
Wisconsin’s story began 14 years ago when then-Gov. Tommy Thompson started promoting organ donation at the urging of Dr. Hans Sollinger, the university hospital’s top transplant surgeon.
Its strategy is simple: First, learn the secrets of the hospital trauma centers that promote organ donations most effectively. Then convince the country’s 200 biggest hospital trauma centers to use them. While some organs, mainly kidneys, come from living donors, the major source is patients who die in hospitals.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08072005/health/56703.htm

HHS to oversee health clinics -- Aug. 30, 2005
[ Ed: will these clinics eventually distribute the VeriChip? ]
The study reflected the struggle by local public health departments as they attempt to meet sometimes varying and vague preparedness guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Moreover, there are no set federal standards on how the nation's estimated 2,800 public health clinics should dispense medical advice, said David J. Dausey, the report's lead author
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050830/ap_on_he_me/public_health_problems;_ylt=Ani_SrnFrYa727GX.
LOAm6Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE-

Thompson chairs Catalina Health Council -- Aug. 25, 2005 "PATIENTLink"
Tommy G. Thompson, has agreed to chair the newly formed
Health Education and Patient Privacy Advisory Council
under the auspices of Catalina's Health Resource division
Craig H. Scott, president of Catalina Health Resource. "Providing meaningful patient health education is the mission of our business, and the opportunity for us to work with Secretary Thompson and gain from his insights will undoubtedly benefit millions of Americans."
Catalina's new Health Education and Patient Privacy Advisory Council will focus on initiatives that benefit patients by providing them with information that leads to more informed decisions about their healthcare while also preserving their privacy. The company's signature healthcare communication product, called PATIENTLink(TM), is a printed health media communication that is distributed to patients with over one billion prescriptions each year via retail pharmacies throughout the United States. Through PATIENTLink(TM), Catalina Health Resource partners with leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, retail pharmacy chains and government agencies to deliver public health communication that promotes prescription compliance, educates patients about their medical conditions and encourages patients to discuss therapy options with their healthcare professionals
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050825/flth009.html?.v=25

Online VeriMed Info Center---Aug. 23, 2005
Due to Growing Demand for the VeriChip(TM) Implantable Technology and the VeriMed Application, VeriChip Launches Dedicated Resource Center
"VeriMed Info Center" (www.verimedinfo.com) providing a one-stop resource for anything related to the VeriChip implantable technology for medical facilities, physicians and patients.

The Verichip implantable technology is the cornerstone of the VeriMed application. The unique 16-digit code contained in the RFID chip is accessed by VeirChip readers used by staff in the hospital emergency department. Once a Verichip number has been obtained, hospital staff can access important information such as patient identify, emergency contact information, physician contact numbers, living wills and the location of any electronic medical records
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050823/235613.html?.v=1

Wireless Mobile Resource Center for VeriChip -- Aug. 25, 2005
Online Product Registration
http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1580

MD-IT ProMed Transcription
The acquisition is the first of many planned as part of MD-IT’s strategy to provide Intelligent Transcription services. Intelligent Transcription uses new technology to transform old services by providing a full range of automated tools that enable fast and easy document creation and exchange among physician offices, medical transcriptionists and information systems, while retaining personalized service to support individual physician preferences. MD-IT will be adding state-of-the-art technologies, such as voice and handwriting recognition, customized physician templates that capture important patient data, and "dictation to database" data exchange, to ProMed’s transcription services performed by medical transcriptionists.

Universal Scanners at Animal Clinics
most veterinarians already have them
http://www.click2houston.com/news/4968326/detail.html

Tommy Thompson to advise MDVIP - July 7, 2005
A Boca Raton concierge medicine company said a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will it serve as chairman of a committee on cost reduction through preventive health care.
said Tommy G. Thompson will direct development and implementation of MDVIP policy initiatives focusing on preventive care to reduce national health care expenditures.....
Concierge medicine companies such as MDVIP - which has 82 physicians in 14 states - boast delivering more personalized health care, focused on prevention and early detection.
As a partner in the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, MDVIP said Thompson brings his firm's international resources in support of the efforts of both MDVIP and its committee. http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/07/04/daily18.html

Thompson on board of NJ med-tech firm -- Aug 18, 2005
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2140

Akin Gump and Chinese Oil -- July 4, 2005
Akin Gump was a prestigious Dallas law firm with no Washington presence in 1970 when one of its partners,
Robert S. Strauss, was elected treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (two years prior to becoming its chairman). About to spend lots of time in Washington, Strauss figured he should open an Akin Gump office in the capital. That grew to hundreds of lawyers, far more than worked at the home office, in a DuPont Circle building bearing Strauss's name.
With Strauss and Clinton friend Vernon Jordan its biggest names, the Washington office at first had a Democratic coloration. But Bill Paxon (once considered a future Republican speaker of the House) became Akin Gump's dominant figure after joining the firm in 1999, following his surprise retirement from Congress at age 44. Strauss last year won the lobbyist race to hire another big-time Republican, Tommy Thompson, upon his resignation as HHS secretary. Like most modern lobbying firms, it does not take sides in politics, ideology or global competition.
In the Washington world of big-time lawyers and lobbyists, there are no permanent alliances or enmities
Money talks in Washington, and it does not matter much who does the paying.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak04.html

Tommy Thompson and the chip -- Aug. 16 , 2005
It's clear why VeriChip wants Thompson. He's a mover and shaker from the Bush administration. As secretary, Thompson helped shape the country's homeland security initiatives, such as preparing for biological or biochemical attack.
The technology can be used to grant or deny access to buildings and secure areas, and has "real-time location and tracking capabilities," [ Ed: only by data-tracking; see here ] according to the company's Web site.
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/08/16/local/columns/iq_3642249.txt

VeriChip hires Tommy Thompson ( former HHS ) to Board -- July 7, 2005
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- July 7, 2005 -- VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ:ADSX), announced today that Tommy G. Thompson, former Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary and former Governor of Wisconsin, was appointed to the Company's Board of Directors. With nearly 40 years of his career devoted to public service, Secretary Thompson is recognized as a dedicated advocate for the health and welfare of all Americans. In his role as a member of the Board, Secretary Thompson is expected to help the Company accelerate adoption of the VeriChip for healthcare and security applications.
We look forward to him assisting the Company to make the VeriChip an important part of the healthcare landscape."
Commenting on his appointment, Secretary Thompson stated, "We are all well aware of the need to enhance Information Technology in healthcare. It is my belief that VeriChip is an important and secure means of accessing medical records and other information. I look forward to working with the company as it continues its growth."
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/jul/1161336.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050707/75434.html?.v=1
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050707005434&newsLang=en

VeriChip's eXI wireless signs agreement with Novation -- June 15, 2005
eXI Wireless Inc., has signed a three-year, dual-source agreement with Novation, the supply company of VHA Inc.
Who is VHA ?
VHA Inc. is a health care provider alliance of more than 2,200 not-for-profit health care organizations. We help members deliver safe, effective and cost-efficient care. Based in Irving, Texas, our members benefit from national and local support. VHA has 18 regional offices in 48 states as well as an office in Washington D.C.
https://www.vha.com/portal/server.pt?space=Opener&control=OpenObject&cached=true&parentname=CommunityPage&par
entid=0&in_hi_ClassID=512&in_hi_ObjectID=338&in_hi_OpenerMode=2&in_hi_userid=0
UHC http://www.uhc.edu/
and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). With this contract, two of eXI's RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) solutions for the healthcare industry will now be made accessible to more than 2,500 VHA and UHC members as top-of-the-line protection solutions.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050615/155219.html?.v=1
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050615005219&newsLang=en

VeriChip Corporation obtains Instantel's Xmark --June 10, 2005
Health Security -- Perceptis, L.P.
VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), announced today that its Canadian subsidiary has completed the acquisition of Ottawa, Ontario-based Instantel Inc. (www.instantel.com and www.xmarksystems.com ).
Instantel is a privately-held Canadian company which manufactures high-quality remote monitoring products in the areas of healthcare security and vibration monitoring for a diverse customer base

Location devices : "Hugs" (infants) and "WatchMate" ( wander prone)
We continue to take aggressive measures to position VeriChip as a leader in RFID for people
Instantel's product lines are comprised of radio frequency identification ("RFID") systems for infant protection, wander prevention, emergency response and high-value asset tracking within the healthcare industry and vibration
(Ed: motion-detection) monitoring devices for the construction, mining and blasting industries
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/Jun/1153474.htm

Wireless In-body medical communication -- June 1, 2005
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=4829F2DF-FB92-4AB3-AAD3-25AFBD32BE75

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