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T.
Thompson to promote VeriChip for U.S. and British citizens 
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/
Comment:
Tommy Thompson is introducing this for both
the USA and Great Britain.
Since PM Tony Blair heads the EU presidency at this time,
it is a mere step for this to include all Europeans.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2005/jimg825.htm
This chip will not help kidnapped children since
kidnappers would make sure they keep the child away from public
areas where any rfid tags could be tracked.
VeriChip has no
GPS capabilities.
The best protection for children is responsible adult supervision
and prayer.
From the Newswire:
T
Thompson and David Rockefeller at Clinic -- Sept. 23, 2005
Chaired by Mrs. Norma Lerner, the summit
drew leading philanthropists and government, business and
foundation leaders from across the country to discuss
philanthropy's growing role in health care. Among those in
attendance were the Honorable Tommy Thompson, former Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and David
Rockefeller Jr., Director and former Chair of Rockefeller &
Co. Inc
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050923/clf051.html?.v=14
"protecting" the Unprotectible ( medical data ) -- May
30, 2005
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1624/1/128/
Homeland Security and Breach of Hospital Data -- May 8, 2005
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/investigators/wabc_050405_investigatorsstory_hospitalsecurity.html
MDs warned against defillibrators
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2005/jun/24/062403732.html
Siemans provides hand-held readers at Jacobi Medical Center NY --
May 6, 2005
To read those wristbands, Siemens Business Services
chose a portable hand-held reader supplied by ACG Identification
Technologies. Walluf - ACG Identification Technologies, a leading
component and technology supplier in the smart card and RFID
markets, announces that its RF PC Handheld Reader was selected by
Siemens Business Services for its project with the Jacobi Medical
Center in New York.
RFID wristbands do
not require direct access with the reader; they can be scanned through clothing and
blankets. The hospital staff uses lightweight PDAs or tablet PCs
with a RFID reader to read the data without disturbing the
patient.
Siemens Business Services chose ACG's RF PC Handheld Reader, in the form of a Compact FlashT
card
ACG has 21 locations throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa,
Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa
http://www.contactlessnews.com/news/2005/05/04/siemens-business-systems-selects-rf-pc-handheld-reader-from-acg-for-rf
id-project-at-jacobi-medical-center/
Now VeriChip ID will include temperature sensors
April 28, 2005 : Digital Angel ( animals ) and
VeriChip ( humans ) plan :
to initiate clinical
studies on an enhanced version of its Verichip
implantable radio frequency identification device.
The enhanced product will include temperature sensing
capabilities in addition to its existing
identification capabilities. The companies will retain an
independent internationally recognized research institute to
conduct the trials. Based upon the results of that study, Digital
Angel plans to pursue the necessary regulatory procedures to
obtain clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to
distribute such a transponder in the United States for human use.
In October of 2004, Digital Angel received clearance from the
Food and Drug Administration to distribute a transponder for
patient identification applications
The Verichip with
temperature sensing capabilities will allow a transponder to
provide a unique identification code as
well as to provide the temperature of the individual.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050428/lath095.html?.v=7&printer=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050428/lath095.html?.v=7
RFID in
healthcare set to take off --- April 28, 2005
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleprint/1534/-1/1/
Plug-in external
Med-InfoChip; no subdermal chip needed; April 2005
Called Med-InfoChip, the unit looks
like a typical USB ''thumb" drive, save for its garish
yellow color. A single-user version sells for $69.95; a
double-user edition for $99.95.
When you plug the unit into a USB port, you can access it
as you would any external drive. A CD is included with
the InfoChip for users with older computers that need a software
driver to use a USB port.
After launching the fob's software
-- which runs directly from the InfoChip so you don't have to
install anything on your computer -- a screen appears where you
fill in your name, click a button to insert the day's date, and
press ''start." That takes you to a table of contents for
the categories in the program that contain your medical
information.
In the general medical information, for example, you can type in
you personal identification data, information for emergency
contacts, and even import a photo of yourself.
There are also categories for prior and present medical
conditions, allergies, immunizations, and prostheses.
In addition, documents can be scanned into the InfoChip, such as
EKG results, birth certificates, and X-rays.
If you share the device with your medical care provider, there's
a place for physicians' and nurses' notes.
If a person is involved in a
medical emergency, he continued, a medical technician can take
the chip, pop it into a laptop, click an emergency button and all
a patient's vitals are displayed--medical conditions, allergies,
medications, weight, height, blood pressure, even a prior EKG.
If a person isn't involved in a medical emergency, Franzblau
added, he can print the contents of the chip in the form of a
booklet, complete with table of contents, which can be used in
situations where computer access is unavailable.
http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articles/2005/04/11/making_medical_history_portable/
Medical ID bracelets : crucial to ER treatment ( 800 # for data)
-- April 1, 2005
rms
Emergency physicians say that the decades-old
medical-warning tag represents one of medicine's most
underutilized tools. The number of Americans afflicted with
conditions that warrant such tags -- from epilepsy to diabetes to
hemophilia -- reaches deep into the tens of millions. Yet even
the giant of the medical-warning tag industry, a California-based
nonprofit called Medic Alert, has just
four million patients participating world-wide. The number of
member patients -- they get not only bracelets but also an
800-number service that provides contacts and medical records to
doctors in an emergency -- is lower today than a decade ago.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111265985511097848,00.html?mod=todays_us_personal_journal
Blood pressure implant -- April 4, 2005
Surgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center
inserted a battery powered pulse generator under Lawrence's
collarbone along with tiny wires running up each side of her neck
that stimulate nerves in the carotid arteries that play a role in
regulating blood pressure.
About halfway up the neck, these arteries have bulbs
where there's a lot of nerves that sense your blood
pressure," said Dr. John Bisognano, the team's cardiologist.
"We think if you stimulate these nerves, even in a normal
person, blood pressure and heart rate will go down."
Developed by CVRx Inc., a private company in Minnesota,
the experimental Rheos System device is
designed for patients at grave risk of developing heart and
kidney disease because of high blood pressure
Initially, we want to reserve this for patients who
truly have blood pressure that can't be treated with the
available technologies, with drugs," he said. "For
every 20 points you drop your blood pressure, you cut your
cardiovascular risk in half."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/thrive/2005/apr/01/040101806.html
Marburg Virus
http://www.answers.com/marburg+virus&r=67
2 Malaysians implanted with VeriChip containing med data -- March
24. 2005
Using
"read-chips" containing data ( which were not FDA
approved previously ); not encrypted
BTW
Hamlaka wants a "read-write" chip which can ADD data to
the VeriChip
Inforlexus
Sdn Bhd directors Ham Guan Khai and Siauw Ka Lung
had the VeriChip implants,
containing their health data
which can be accessed via a secure server through a 16-digit
identification number contained on the chip.
The data is stored in the Global VeriChip Subscribers Registry,
which is the system's healthcare provider.
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/National/NST32285911.txt/Article/indexb_html
UHF ( ultra-high frequency) chips for pharmaceuticals to
retailers
and HF ( hi-frequency) chips for pharmaceuticals in hospitals -- March
18, 2005
Bill Delmolino, NJM/CLI vice president of technical
sales, says pharmaceutical manufacturers that will be sending
pill bottles into a hospital supply chain need to use HF
(13.56 MHz) tags, instead of UHF, in order to avoid
interference with various UHF systems used in hospitals. But
pharmaceutical companies shipping tagged items to Wal-Mart or
other retailers can use UHF tags to meet those retailers'
requirements.
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1455/1/1/
Rules keep people from visiting the sick -- March 14, 2005
The HIPAA regulations, which carry civil and even criminal
penalties if violated, require doctors, hospitals, pharmacies and
insurers to notify patients about the privacy rules, describe how
their medical information may be used and explain patients'
rights under the new guidelines.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/sns-ap-sunshine-week-medical-privacy,0,93646.story
Medical Verichip has personal information written on it -- Feb.
2005
What it is, is a
VeriChip, a radio-frequency i.d tag by a company called Applied
Digital. The chip is loaded with whatever personal
information
you choose.
That can include your Social Security number, insurance, health
information or even name and address.
A special reader has to be within a few inches to access your 16
digit number. To access your computer file, a password is needed.
Its original intent was for medical emergencies. In fact the
company is about to give chip readers to 200 Emergency Rooms in
America for free.
But Verichips could someday be implanted in our military
with information, like next of kin.
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2005/02/verichip.html
pdf article : Chip On Your Arm Feb. 7, 2005 ... See
GRAPHIC of chip
135 kHz . Adsx plans to have a read-write chip ( information that
can be updated)
Zeke Mejia says that the company is working on a larger than one
grain of rice chip that has a sensor for body temperature and
"calibration programming embedded into an ASIC".
The company want an ID chip with "biosensing
capabilities" such as "glucose monitioring".
[
Editor:John Halamka was embedded with a chip that was the size of
two grains of rice...twice the usual size for the ID chip. Was
Thermo Life also implanted ? Sensors are charged by muscle
action.]
www.designnews.com/contents/pdf/020705medicalsuppb.pdf
What the FDA won't tell you about the VeriChip ( CBN )
But in a letter obtained by CBN News from the FDA
to the VeriChip makers, the microchip is not completely safe. In
fact, the letter lists a whole host of health risks associated
with the device, including "adverse tissue reaction,"
"electrical hazards" and "MRI
incompatibility."
On her Web site, www.spychips.com , Albrecht
reveals the potential dangers of the VeriChip and other radio
frequency identification methods.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/041210a.asp?option=print
Hackensack NJ Hospital adopts VeriChip ID database System --
March 14, 2005
The facility will now be able to scan patients to obtain their
VeriChip ID Number and utilize the associated information.
Area physicians can now recommend to patients the
placement of a VeriChip knowing that a major
regional facility in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan
area has the capability of both reading the VeriChip and
accessing electronically stored medical information. Together
with HUMC, we anticipate the result will be more rapid and
accurate access to crucial medical information when patient
communication is diminished or absent."
In addition, Nicholas Minicucci, Jr., founder and president of
the MOLLY Foundation at Hackensack University Medical Center, has
endorsed the VeriChip technology on behalf of his daughter, Molly
Phillips. Molly will be one of the first patients to be
"chipped." Initial patients will be
"chipped" at the medical center during the week of
March 14th
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050314005683&newsLang=en
and at
http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1328
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050314/145683_1.html
Beth Israel Hospital ( Harvard Med- affiliate) adopts VeriChip ID
System -- March 3, 2005
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2005--VeriChip
Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied
Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News),
announced today that CareGroup Healthcare Systems, the parent
company of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard
Medical School affiliate, will install a VeriChip(TM)
System in the Emergency Department of the Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) for clinical
use. The facility will now be able to access
VeriChip identification numbers and retrieve previously entered
healthcare information entered in the CareGroup's
"CareWeb" electronic medical record system.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050303/35166_1.html
e-mail takes the pain out of medical visits -- March 3, 2005
Blue Shield of California pays his doctor $25 for each
online exchange, the same as it pays for an office visit. Some
insurers pay a bit less for e-mailing, and patients in some
health plans are charged a $5 or $10 co-payment that is billed to
their credit card and relayed to the doctor.
For doctors, the convenience of online exchanges can be
considerable. They say they can offer advice about postsurgical
care, diet, changing a medication and other topics that can be
handled safely and promptly without an office visit or a
frustrating round of telephone tag. And by reducing the number of
daily office visits, surveys have shown that physicians have more
time to spend with patients who need to be seen face to face.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/02/business/doctors.html
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations ( WHO ) -- Feb.
26, 2005
Windfall for pharmaceuticals
Recently, an alliance dedicated to vaccines for children
in poor countries has received two staggering pledges: $750
million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and $1.8
billion from Britain. .Both donors said they had chosen that
group, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and
Immunizations, because it is a most cost-effective
way to save lives.
The Gates Foundation's money will come in over 10 years,
and Britain's over 15. Such long-term thinking is crucial for vaccines
because it gives manufacturers a guaranteed market and
allows countries to plan. The vaccine alliance
was established in 2000 to provide this type of stability.
.Long-term planning is also essential for AIDS treatment. The
World Health Organization announced at
the end of January that throughout the developing world, 700,000
people are now taking antiretroviral drugs, up from 440,000 just
six months ago.
. .The easiest way to create a long-term stream of money not
subject to an annual political fight is for rich countries to
cancel the poorest nations' debts. At a meeting earlier this
month, the world's wealthiest nations [ G 7 ] agreed in principle to do this. .They must
finally take this long-overdue step. ...... .Britain has come up
with a clever way to reduce the burden of costly diseases now and
save money in the future. British officials want to create an International
Financing Facility, which would raise money in
the financial markets by floating bonds backed by governments'
promises of future aid. The money raised would go to increase
vaccine coverage through the vaccine alliance and, if the
facility expanded, to fight AIDS. .The British proposal has
substantial European backing and it should proceed, although,
typically, the Bush administration hates it.
http://www.iht.com//articles/2005/02/25/opinion/edpoor.html
Bird-flu
vaccine prepared -- Feb. 24, 2005
Amid dire warnings of
a bird-flu pandemic, the government is preparing to test an
experimental vaccine and is increasing disease surveillance in hopes of reducing the toll from
any eventual American outbreak.
Antiviral drugs are being stockpiled, and 2 million doses of vaccine are being stored for possible
emergency use and to test whether they maintain their potency.
United Nations officials
warned yesterday that the Asian bird-flu outbreak poses the
"gravest possible danger" of becoming a global pandemic.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002188624_birdflu24.html
Will the elderly and handicapped need the
chip for medical services ?
Will this involve a drug delivery system ?
Applied Digital appoints Medical Advisory Board---- Feb. 16, 2005
Drs. Richard Seelig, Howard Weintraub, Sameer Mehta
VeriChip Corporation, has formed a Medical
Advisory Board to assist in expanding the adoption of
VeriChip in the medical community. The Board's initial
focus will be to advise the Company on ways to increase the
acceptance and expand the marketing of VeriChip to practitioners,
hospitals and makers of medical devices, insurance companies and
Medicaid/Medicare
Dr. [Howard] Weintraub is a principal of the Landfall
Therapeutics Consulting Group, LLC, which provides strategic and
technical consulting in the pharmaceutical and
medical device arena. He has more than thirty years of experience
in pharmaceutical and medical device research and development.
Until his retirement in July of 2003, Dr. Weintraub was Vice
President, R&D Corporate Staff for C.R. Bard, the medical
device company. In this role he worked to establish and maximize
synergies across the company's eight development groups, and was
responsible for identification and evaluation of new
technologies.
Previously, Dr. Weintraub held various research management
positions at Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, a Johnson &
Johnson Company, where he started and built the drug
metabolism and clinical pharmacology organizations.
In addition he led various project teams including the group that
developed the antidiarrheal, ImodiumŪ. Prior to joining Ortho
Pharmaceutical, he was responsible for dermatological and wound
care research at Bristol-Myers Squibb in the ConvaTec division
and licensed and developed Dovonex(TM), the topical
antipsorriatic product. Dr. Weintraub received his B.S. in
Pharmacy from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. in
biopharmaceutics from the State University of New York at
Buffalo.
Drug Metabolism sub-section, where he helped draft the current bioequivalence/bioavailability
regulations.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Digital
Angel Corporation (AMEX, DOC), and the privately held
biotechnology company, Bioenergy, Inc. He is
also a member of the scientific advisory board of Polymerix
Corporation, the Strategic Advisory Board of Aderans, Inc., and
the advisory board of the Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Rutgers University.
Dr. [Sameer] Mehta is an experienced
interventional cardiologist and served as Chief of Interventional
Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Library at Cedars
Medical Center in Miami.He has served or currently serves on
numerous Medical and Scientific Advisory and Board of Directors
including EGT Inc, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Scimed Inc.,
Spectranetics Inc., Advanced Interventional Systems Inc.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050216/165505_1.html
What
is Medicare ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_%28United_States%29
Implantable
Chip hold link to patient data -- Feb. 25, 2005
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/infoimaging/2005/02/25/infoimagingmedinews_2005_02_25_eng-med
inews_eng-medinews_050139_7742368820113400267.html
Now that the
VeriChip System is in our local neighborhoods, why haven't our
local churches been warning about a subdermal system just like
this as the coming Mark of the Beast ?
Is your pastor keeping you informed of these developments ? Why
not ?
February 1,
2005 -- VeriChip System NOW at your local clinic
chip + pocket reader + database
Each VeriChip contains a 16-digit identification number
assigned by the vendor.
The
number can be captured by waving the vendor's
RFID VeriChip Pocket Reader over a patient
with an implanted chip. The number can be linked to a database at a
health care organization that contains a patient's medical
information.
The CIO had his VeriChip number digitally mapped to his master
patient index number at CareGroup. To assess the
reliability of the chip, Halamka used the vendor's RFID
reader to locate
the chip and display its identification number. He then typed the
identification number into the delivery system's Web-based master
patient index to retrieve his medical information. Halamka was
able to retrieve an accurate reading of his chip's ID number by
scanning up to 5 inches away. He also was able
to retrieve it while his arm was covered with layers of clothing
and apparel with metal.
It's a permanent device, so its effectiveness won't
change over time,"
The VeriChip, however, is implanted, which means another person
could initiate contact without an individual's consent. This
raises the concern that the implanted individual could be
unknowingly identified, Brown says.
"What's different about the VeriChip is that I don't on
demand identify myself," he says. "While that has
tremendous possibilities for the applications the company has
described, it has the potential for abuse. Once I'm
implanted, I don't know who's reading me."
What's more, there's
nothing to indicate that a patient has been implanted with the
device, which
could impede emergency care, contends Barton Robinson Sr., a
consultant at Daou Systems Inc., an Exton, Pa.-based consulting
firm.
"Critically ill patients often wear ID bracelets to indicate
their condition. But there's no way to tell a patient has a chip
implanted," he says. "If the patient
doesn't wear something
to say they've been implanted, responders won't know without
first attempting a scan."
Ed.
note: or have an external image
tatooed over the implant ????
While the CIO's chip currently
only can be read at CareGroup, that soon could change. The
provider organization is taking part in a statewide initiative to
develop a Massachusetts health information network. The network
will offer data exchange and electronic medical records systems
interoperability--which eventually could enable access to
Halamka's chip by other provider organizations across the state.
Ed.
note: Administration wants a national electronic medical record
system
Applied Digital will begin marketing the VeriChip system to clinicians and provider organizations this
month,
[ February
2005 ] Seelig says. It will be
classified as a prescription medical device and require a
physician to perform the implantation. The vendor will sell the
chips to patients for $200 and the readers to health
care organizations for $650, Seelig adds. The cost
of implantation will be established by a patient's physician.
http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1244
VeriChips in
Clinics by February 2005
The
implantation required local anesthesia to a two-inch area of my
arm between my elbow and shoulder," he [ Halamka] said Wednesday in an interview with Mobile
Health Data.
"The chip was inserted under my skin--between the fascia and
the muscle. I can't feel it."
"It's a
permanent device, so its effectiveness won't change over
time," he says. "I'm giving the industry a learning
opportunity by testing it."
Applied
Digital will begin marketing the VeriChip system to clinicians
and provider organizations next month,
[ February 2005 ] Seelig
says. It will be classified as a prescription
medical device and require a physician to
perform the implantation.
The vendor will sell the
chips to patients for $200 and the readers to health care
organizations for $650, Seelig adds. The cost of the implantation
will be established by a patient's physician.
Halamka's assessment of the VeriChip device will be the subject
of a February In The Spotlight story on Mobile Health
Data. For more information on the VeriChip, go to www.adsx.com.
http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1234
Implantable Medical Devices -- Jan. 20, 2005
medical radio frequency band: MICS Medical Implant Communications
Service
....subcutaneous radios and imaging
Boston -- Cambridge Consultants has designed an intelligent
radio transceiver architecture that introduces a new
level of power economy and performance for in-body
medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
The design is intended for implementation on system-on-chip (SoC) solutions and provides a control and communications platform
suitable for implantable medical devices
- a market currently growing at double-digit rates. The
device will operate in the Medical Implant Communications Service
(MICS) frequencies - the medical band now emerging as a global
standard.
http://boston.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=8481&type_news=latest
Real-time medical location
devices ( externally-worn with active
rfid tags)
http://www.radianse.com/single-use-patient-tags.html
External RFID "band aids " in hospitals ; tracks patient;
information
http://articles.health.msn.com/id/100098604/site/100000000/
The Interoperability Consortium
A national health information network, analysts say,
would not only improve the efficiency in America's fragmented
health care system, but would also create an attractive market
for information technology products and services.
The eight companies in the consortium are:
I.B.M., Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Accenture, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Computer Sciences
The Bush administration has said that
creating such a network should be a national priority over
the next several years.
The group recommended that the government establish a
nonprofit company called
the National Health Technology Standards
Corporation to be the arbiter of technology
standards, with members of its board appointed by the Health
and Human Services Department.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/technology/26health.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=
--- NYT Jan. 25, 2005 rms
No more thermometers ? -- Feb. 1, 2005
http://euobserver.com/?aid=18297&rk=1
DENTISTRY : making teeth ( crowns,bridges) with rfid tags in
them; see
GRAPHICS
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/10/25.html
and
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1206/1/1/
Nanometer chips under the skin -- Jan. 26, 2005
National Taiwan University released its groundbreaking
study on "Advanced Wireless Medical Monitoring
Systems" on Tuesday, reporting on the use of nanometer
sized chips which are attached to or inserted under the skin of a
person's body and equipped with nanometer electronic technology
permitting monitoring of
the subject's respiration, heartbeat, blood parameters and the
like. At the same time, the data can be transmitted
via a wireless network so that the patient's
data can be sent to a remote handset and computer platform.
The project integrates wireless networks and computerized
artificial intelligence methods to integrate medical monitoring
and diagnosis systems functions
it means that even while sitting comfortably at home, a
doctor can arrive at a diagnosis from a remote hospital location
and provide appropriate care for the patient at home.
SENSORS
sensors, allowing, for example,
monitoring of important indicators like protein hardness,
coagulation, flexibility and density in cardiac patients. The
chips are capable of reading these biophysical signs and
nanometer chips can even be used to directly perform
tests, do analyses, and transmit the results.
http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?id=13&recid=103217&viewdate=0
Implantable Medical Devices -- Jan. 20, 2005
medical radio frequency band: MICS Medical Implant Communications
Service
....subcutaneous radios and imaging
Boston -- Cambridge Consultants has designed an intelligent
radio transceiver architecture that introduces a new
level of power economy and performance for in-body
medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
The design is intended for implementation on system-on-chip (SoC) solutions and provides a control and communications platform
suitable for implantable medical devices
- a market currently growing at double-digit rates. The
device will operate in the Medical Implant Communications Service
(MICS) frequencies - the medical band now emerging as a global
standard.
http://boston.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=8481&type_news=latest
SubQore...nerve stimulators -- Jan. 20, 2005 Cambridge
Consultants
lithium cell .... SoC System on Chip
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/view_article.asp?article_id=9043
Chief Info Officer at Harvard Medical gets verichipped -- Jan.
21, 2005
Chipped in muscle of arm
VeriChip Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a provider of Security Through
Innovation(TM), announced today that
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Chief Information Officer of
Harvard Medical School, was implanted with a VeriChip(TM) in December 2004 and began an
assessment of the technology. Prior to making a recommendation to
a patient, Dr. Halamka wished to undergo the VeriChip
"experience" so that, with his extensive clinical and
information technology experience, he could make an assessment
from all dimensions.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050121005352&newsLang=en
Dr. Halamka's chip is the size of "two grains of rice"
... TWICE the size of the regular VeriChip .
Why ??
One grain of rice for a passive
rf ID ? ...
Another "grain of rice" with an ACTIVE
rfid that works with sensors ?
Does it contain Thermo Life sensors to report physiological data
? ( eXI - ORBCOMM )
FEBRUARY 11, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - An RFID chip the size of two
grains of rice and encased in a glass container was
implanted in back of the right arm near the elbow of John
Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School, just before Christmas.
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,99710,00.html
Ed : the muscle in the
arm causes exoitation that generates the active rfid chip.
Privacy concerns
Called VeriChip, the 12mm
by 2.1mm microchip containing medical and
identification information can be implanted under the skin and
read by an external scanner.
EPIC's Hoofnagle said the
technology carries the same privacy concerns as a national ID
card.
"Human identification systems are tools that have
historically been used for social control," he
said. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15428.html
+ + + + +
MedicAlert HealthKey
proves that there really is no need ever for a
subdermal chip.
These two articles came out on the same day.
MedicAlert's Personal Health Key --- Jan. 5, 2004 www.medicalert.org
externally worn http://www.medicalert.org/home/HomeCatalog.aspx?Catalog=Standard
SanDisk(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced
that the MedicAlert(R) Personal HealthKey(TM) will use USB flash
drives from SanDisk. Powered by CapMed, the MedicAlert
Personal HealthKey is a consumer health care
application for the secure storage, maintenance and
communication of personal health information.
The MedicAlert Personal HealthKey will
enable secure storage and immediate access to emergency and
personal health information. Updates to the personal health
record can by provided by both the patient and those authorized
by the patient such as a physician, specialist or pharmacist.
First responders can easily access the critical emergency
information by simply inserting the SanDisk USB drive into any
computer equipped with a USB port. In the event that a patient is
unconscious, this MedicAlert Personal HealthKey is designed to
display select critical medical information as previously
authorized by the patient.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050105005320&newsLang=en
http://www.sandisk.com.
www.sandisk.com/about/media.asp#photos.
MedicAlert HealthKey better than Chip -- Jan. 6, 2005
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/jan2005/jimg16.htm
Lifesavers in their Arms -- Jan. 5, 2005 ..."The
VeriChip System"
Now, patients can have a
computer chip embedded in an arm to
provide an electronic link to their medical
information when they can't communicate or don't
have someone to speak for them.
Diabetics may be among the first New Jerseyans offered the choice
of having subcutaneous chips implanted to give
health-care workers access to their medical records.
VeriChip, developed by a
retired New Jersey surgeon, was recently approved by the federal
Food and Drug Administration. The implant is strictly voluntary
and requires physician authorization.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MTAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2MzM0OTkmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2
Y3dnFlZUVFeXk1
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"Political paranoia" now termed "mental
illness" -- Jan. 10, 2005
Practice First Amendment ( right of dissent ) and be forced to
take drugs
When the 109th Congress convenes in Washington in January, Senator Bill Frist, the first practicing physician
elected to the Senate since 1928, plans to file a bill that would
define 'political paranoia' as a mental disorder, paving the way
for individuals who suffer from paranoid delusions regarding
voter fraud, political persecution and FBI surveillance to
receive Medicare reimbursement for any psychiatric treatment they
receive," writes Hermione Slatkin,
Medical Correspondent for the Swift Report. "Rick Smith,
a spokesman for Senator Frist, says that the measure has a good
chance of passing; something that can only help a portion of the
population that is suffering significant distress."
No need for
FEMA camps or "preventive detention" when we have a
"medical armamentarium" of serotonin uptake inhibitors.
All that is needed now is for Frist and the Republicans to devise
a law defining "political paranoia" and determining
that "political paranoiacs" are a threat to society.
You will take your Paxil (or something far more debilitating )
and by
court order.
Recall Bush's effort to screen the entire population for mental
illness, i.e., the New Freedom Initiative.
Bush's commission found that "despite their prevalence,
mental disorders often go undiagnosed" and recommended
comprehensive mental health screening for "consumers
of all ages." Naturally, Frist and the
Republicans are mostly concerned about the "political
paranoia" form of mental illness, as the above news item
indicates. http://www.rense.com/general61/emen.htm
Bill Frist ( William Harrison Frist )
While in medical school, Frist fraudulently adopted cats
from animal shelters, then experimented on and killed them.
Later, in his book "Transplant," he called this
behavior "a heinous and dishonest thing to do."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Frist
Less personal monitoring in the emergency rooms -- Dec. 9, 2004
Until recently, for instance, security officers at Mercy
Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minn., spent entire shifts sitting in
the emergency department with their eyes trained on potential
problem patients. These days--thanks to a patient
wristband equipped with an RFID
transmitter--officers spend far less time
in the ED and more time responding to calls and
conducting rounds. ......
So far, the high-tech wristbands have helped
slash the number of patient watches by as much as 60 percent,
says Security Manager Dallas Anderson, who oversees security
staff at Mercy and Unity Hospital--a sister facility about 10
miles away.
http://www.hospitalconnect.com/hfmmagazine/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HFMMAGAZINE/PubsNewsArticleGen/data/0412HFM_FEA_Tag
ging_along&domain=HFMMAGAZINE
What ? No health care without a chip ??
VeriChips distributed to doctors offices -- Nov. 13, 2004
Medical-supply company Henry Schein has agreed to distribute implantable radio
frequency identification chips to doctors' offices
across the country--the first major sales push for the
technology since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
approved it for medical
use last month.
http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Medical+supply+firm+to+sell+patient+RFID+chips/2110-1039_3-5447201.html
Medical history chip
Critics say there are both economic and privacy
concerns. "I don't see how it can be effective until all
emergency vehicles and centers have the readers," said
Richard M. Smith, a privacy and Internet security consultant
based in Boston. In addition, the medical profession
would have to agree to standards for the storage and access of
computerized records, something doctors have resisted.
"There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be put into
place," he said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-bzchip144005707oct14,0,5882290,print.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
Physicians must report prescriptions into database -- Nov. 22,
2004
The Arizona-based association has come out strongly
against the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic
Reporting Act. Already passed by the House, it is working its way
through the Senate.
AAPS is arguing that while masquerading as a law enforcement tool
to help control the illegal use of painkillers, the national bill
would “cast a net so wide that tens of millions of suffering
patients & doctors will be snared in suspicion.”
Not limited to prescriptions for painkillers, AAPS adds, the bill
would create a central database affecting tens of millions who
are not even suspected of a crime -- and the information will be
shared with state and local law enforcement.
Prosecutors and law enforcement already second-guess doctors and
prosecute them for prescribing ‘too much’ or if they
decide the patient doesn’t ‘deserve’
treatment,” a spokesperson for AAPS told NewsMax.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/21/152043.shtml
FDA clears medical applications of Verichip -- Oct. 13, 2004 ..16
digits
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.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041013/135521_1.html
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Oct/1082567.htm
Ed.
note: To me, this is not the universal-financial
chip in the right hand or forehead known as the mark of the beast
with the world's leader's name, number (666) nor with his image.
But still , it is too close for comfort for me. I wouldn't take
it. (databases destroy privacy)
Surgichip Tag (rfid)
The patient’s name and the site of surgery are
printed on the SurgiChip tag. Inside is a chip encoded with the
type of surgery, date of surgery and the surgeon’s name.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533147/
VeriChip's many applications -- Nov. 15, 2004
“We fully expect to see VeriChip systems deployed
in the following areas — specialized facilities
caring for specific patient populations,” such as
Alzheimer’s patients.
Applied Digital is donating 200 of the $650 scanners to
200 trauma centers in the nation. Meanwhile, the company will
“develop multiple distribution channels” for
the VeriChips, including to physicians’ offices, national
medical supply distributors and to manufacturers of joint
replacement hardware, Seelig said.
“This was developed for
the security industry,” she said, noting that over the next
decade we can expect advances in technology to
increasingly be transferred from one industry or usage to another. ( like buying and selling )
Schatzlein sees accepted use
of the technology, whether implanted or carried in a
“smart card” format, as only a matter of time.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/10188045.htm
Radio antennas keep tabs on drug medicines-- Nov. 15, 2004
The labels are called radio-frequency identification. As
in automated highway toll collection systems, they consist of
computer chips embedded into stickers that emit numbers when
prompted by a nearby radio signal.
Privacy-rights advocates have expressed reservations
about radio labels, worrying that employers and others
will be able to learn what medications people
are carrying in their pockets. Civil-liberties groups have voiced
similar concerns about ubiquitous use of the technology in the
marketplace
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/health/15drug.html?ex=1101099600&en=574f3fc72a3ae235&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Mandatory mental health screening for kids = drugs = suicidial
implement mandatory universal mental health screening
for almost 60 million children, pregnant women, and adults
through schools and pre-schools.
One of the most “dangerous side effects” from
anti-depressants commonly prescribed to children is suicide,
regarding which AAPS added, “Further, even the
government’s own task force has concluded that mental health
screening does little to prevent suicide.”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/11/140125.shtml
Nurez Khimji CFO EXI Wireless
Will
they be tagging infants ??
http://www.cr80news.com/library/2004/11/05/ask-the-experts-nurez-khimji-cfo-exi-wireless/
Verichip signs with Schein, largest healthcare distributor --
Nov. 10, 2004
VeriChip Corporation, has signed a distribution
agreement with Henry Schein, Inc., the largest
distributor of healthcare products to office-based practitioners
in the combined North American and European markets.
Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated
distribution network, which provides customers in more than 125
countries with a comprehensive selection of over 90,000
national and Henry Schein private-brand products
the Group offers more than 30,000 SKUs, including
generic and branded pharmaceuticals, vaccines,
medical and surgical supplies, diagnostic kits, and major
equipment. The Group is a major supplier to organizations that
bundle member purchasing power such as the American Society of
Plastic Surgeons, the American Academy of Dermatology, and U.S.
Oncology, Inc. For more information, visit the company's website
at http://www.henryschein.com.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041110/105493_1.html
Your purchases of over-the-counter-meds registered and profiled
-- Nov. 2004
The National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM) is a
public health surveillance tool that collects
and analyzes daily sales data for over-the-counter (OTC)
health-care products. NRDM collects sales
data for selected OTC health-care products in near real time from
15,000 retail stores and makes them available to public health
officials. NRDM is one of the first examples of a
national data utility [ Ed. note: make that
"database" ] for public health surveillance that
collects, redistributes, and analyzes daily sales-volume data of selected
health-care products, thereby reducing the effort for both data
providers and health departments.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su5301a9.htm
ADS buys eXI Wireless; 200 more distributors -- Nov. 11, 2004
Applied Digital, a maker of electronic security
products, is buying B.C.-based EXI Wireless Inc.
for about $16 million in stock.
EXI’s products offer wireless identification,
control and location technologies.
Once completed, this acquisition will add about 200
dealers and distributors to VeriChip Corp.,
http://www.businessedge.ca/viewnews.asp?id=7491
VeriChip's rapid distribution through eXI --- Nov. 3, 2004
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2004--
Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News), a
provider of Security Through Innovation(TM), announced today that
it has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire eXI
Wireless, Inc. Once completed, this acquisition will add
approximately 200
dealers and distributors to VeriChip Corporation, Applied Digital's wholly-owned
subsidiary.
These dealers and distributors already market eXI's proprietary
security products like HALO(TM), ROAM ALERT(TM), ASSETRAC(TM),
and HOUNDWARE(TM) to hospitals, nursing homes and commercial
customers, respectively.
Applied Digital expects the transaction to accelerate
adoption of the VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder
System for medical applications. Applied Digital has
conducted extensive due diligence, but closing of the transaction
remains subject to final documentation, eXI's board of
directors' receiving a fairness opinion, and required approvals
(including approval by eXI's shareholders and the BC Supreme
Court). The companies expect that the transaction will close
during the first quarter of 2005.
With over 20 years experience, eXI has developed some of
the industry's first patient wandering, infant protection and
asset tracking / location systems uniquely combining Auto-ID and
real-time location technologies. Recently, eXI's HALO product was
used to successfully save an infant from wrongly being taken from
a maternity ward. The system shut down elevators and the
infant was returned safely.
Beyond
Medical
"Our short term focus is for VeriChip to partner
with global medical supply, medical device and/or larger
technology companies. EXI is the first step of this
evolving distribution model......
By integrating eXI products and services, distribution and
personnel with VeriChip Corporation, we will now be able to
provide external and subcutaneous RFID technology for security
in a healthcare environment.
...markets of RFID: health care, animal tracking and
asset tracking........commercial assets.......
.... real-time location system (RTLS)
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/041103/35173_1.html
..................................................
Smartband Wristband Systems PDC
RFID for healthcare --EXTERNAL
PDC's Smart Band RFID
Wristband System acts as a portable, dynamic database that
carries patient information to be used and updated during
the patient's stay.
RFID helps to ensure that the "Five Rights of
Medications Safety" are achieved, facilitating
real-time confirmation of the
Right Patient,
Right Drug,
Right Dose,
Right Route,
and Right Time.
(
RIGHT hand ? )
Unlike bar code, RFID's non-line-of-site data transmission can be
read through and around the human body, clothing, bed
coverings, and non-metallic materials.
http://www.pdcorp.com/rfid/healthcare.html
VeriChip ...Security Under the Skin -- Nov. 1, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3742684.stm
Nov. 11 -- WHO ( of UN ) calls for summit on flu pandemic-- Nov.
1, 2004
U.S. health officials and their colleagues from other
large nations will
join representatives of 16 vaccine companies on Nov. 11 for a
summit in Geneva, Switzerland on a potential flu pandemic.
The influenza chief of the United Nations' health
agency, the World Health Organization, told the
American Society for Microbiology meeting in Washington that the
world is closer than ever to a pandemic.[ global
epidemic ]
Tens of millions die in a pandemic, which occurs
every 20 to 30 years.
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/1148266.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/31/202625.shtml
VeriChip -- Loss of Privacy
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.
William Pierce, an HHS spokesman, could not say whether VeriChip and its accompanying secure
database of medical records fit within that initiative.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/10/15/2003206963
VeriChip ...
a health hazard
" a noisome and grievous sore" -- Revelation 16:2
New FDA ruling on VeriChip : "Class II medical device with
special controls " -- Dec. 10, 2004
The potential risks to health associated with the device
are adverse tissue reaction, migration of implanted
transponder, compromised information security, failure of
implanted transponder, failure of inserter, failure of electronic
scanner, electromagnetic interference, electrical hazards,
magnetic resonance imaging incompatibility, and needle stick.
The special controls document aids in mitigating the risks by
identifying performance and safety testing, and appropriate
labeling.
Final ruling:
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=7863005760+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/guidance.html.
Document 1541 at www.fda.gov/cdrh.
http://www.mobilehealthdata.com/article.cfm?articleid=1173
VeriChip : a risk to health and safety
Katherine Albrecht of CASPIAN wisely points out the drawbacks
Albrecht cites MRI
incompatibility as perhaps the most serious issue.
An MRI machine uses powerful magnetic fields coupled with pulsed
radio frequency (RF) fields. According to the FDA's Primer on
Medical Device Interactions with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Systems, "electrical currents may be induced in conductive
metal implants" that can cause "potentially severe
patient burns."
"Patients contemplating a
VeriChip implant need to know that the FDA has raised
incompatibity as a potential risk," Albrecht said.
"If it's a choice between a potentially life-saving
diagnostic procedure or a VeriChip implant, I believe most
patients would choose the MRI."
In addition to outlining a number of health risks, the FDA letter
also cites the risk of "compromised information
security" among its concerns.
http://www.sierratimes.com/04/10/19/article_nocards.htm
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/041210a.asp
Implantable Chip's medical dangers
"The potential risks to
health associated with the device are: adverse tissue
reaction, migration of implanted transponder, …
failure of implanted transponder, … electromagnetic
interference, electrical hazards, magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) incompatibility and needle stick," states the letter, which was obtained by Consumers Against Supermarket
Privacy Invasion and Numbering, or CASPIAN.
Katherine Albrecht, founder and director of CASPIAN, chastised
Applied Digital and manufacturer Digital Angel for failing to
mention the negative aspects of its technology
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41000
VeriChip -- adverse tissue reaction
However, the transmitter, from
VeriChip, exposes people who have it embedded in their bodies to
electrical hazards, MRI incompatibility, adverse tissue reaction,
and migration of the implanted transponder, to name only a few of
the potential risks associated with the implants, says
Albrecht.
MRI machines use powerful magnetic fields coupled with pulsed
radio frequency (RF) fields, she says, saying MRI incompatibility
is perhaps the most serious problem.
http://p2pnet.net/story/2788 and http://p2pnet.net/story/2793
VeriChip--implanted without approval
A spokesman for the Department of Health said that
doctors could "probably" inplant the chips in patients
without the need for approval by the authorised body, the
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,
as it did not regard the VeriChip as a medical device.
Cashless
Society
Mr Panchani, of Surge IT, said the devices would also
find use as tags in the Army and in prisons,
and that potential applications were virtually
limitless. "It could be used just like a passport,
so people will have to carry nothing,
no credit cards and
no wallets. We
feel there are countless possibilities with this product."
Earlier this month [ October
2004 ] , Applied Digital signed a deal to supply
VeriChips to distributors in Brazil,
where kidnapping has become endemic. Government officials hope
that the chips could be used to trackdown victims via satellite.
Ed.
note: Impossible ! -- VeriChip has no transmitter for the GPS
System ...... false advertising!
Some campaigners have warned, however, that there could be a more
sinister side to the new technology. Barry Hugill, of the
campaign group Liberty, said: "Quite obviously if you're
going to have a chip stuck under your skin that is going
to enable someone to monitor you, you
need to be aware of the threat this might pose to your
privacy."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/17/wchip17.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/10/17/ixportal.html
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