contactless news
The Health Link System --
also please see : E-health ... . biosensors, Thermo-Life ..... Drug-delivery systems Lab-On-a-chip .....DNA chip
Apocalyptic Hope...........IndexChip ....... Medchip 2 ...... pg 3 ......Targeting the Vulnerable
translation: http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en .
VeriMed HEALTH
LINK consists of :
1. a hand-held radio
frequency identification (RFID) scanner,
2. an implantable RFID
microchip,
3. and a secure patient database,
is being used to help rapidly identify and provide access to
important health information on participating patients
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/6339
contactless news
The
Health Link System
--
also
please see
: E-health ... . biosensors, Thermo-Life ..... Drug-delivery systems Lab-On-a-chip .....DNA chip
VeriMed Health Link Implant : 11mm x 1mm....16 digits
.....134.2 KHz
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/05/arphid-watch-ve.html
This webpage : Health
Link Chip Implant , applications of VeriChip
Patient Identification System ;
full
disclosure, all-inclusive Databases in Owings, Maryland and
Riverside, California;
Scott Silverman; consultant to Health Link -- May 16, 2008
rfid
journal
From the Newswire:
Electronic-prescription Network merging --
July 1, 2008 e-prescriptions
By using the new unified routing
network, authorized physicians will be able to access drug
coverage and medication histories on more than 200 million
patients -- providing patients consent first -- and send
prescriptions electronically to the pharmacy of their choice,
including retail and mail-order pharmacies, before they leave the
doctor's office. Under the present fragmented electronic
infrastructure, physicians have an incomplete clinical picture
and can route prescriptions to fewer pharmacies, among the
reasons many physicians have been reluctant to adopt the
technology.
"The merger
makes complete sense," says Dr. John Halamka [ Ed: the
Verichip guy ] ,
chief information officer of Harvard Medical School. Physicians
will be able to prescribe based on drugs covered under the
patient's health plan and see what other medications a patient is
taking, a key step in preventing harmful drug interactions, he
says.
The merger of RxHub and SureScripts unites what are
otherwise fierce competitors to a common goal. RxHub is backed by
pharmacy benefits managers, or PBMs, which administer
prescription drug benefits for employers and health plans, and
typically dispense drugs through mail-order pharmacies, the
direct competitors of the retail outlets, such as Walgreen Co. and Wal-Mart Stores
Inc., represented by SureScripts
SureScripts-RxHub's board will comprise of one director
each from the five founders, plus a sixth member designated by
NACDS and NCPA. John Driscoll, president, New Markets, Medco
Health Solutions and Bruce Roberts, executive vice president and
CEO, NCPA, will serve as co-chairmen of the board of directors
through 2009. Employees from the founders will run the venture,
which will maintain its existing offices in
St. Paul, Minn., and Alexandria, Va. Executives
hope to cut costs internally by eradicating overlaps and
back-office duplication, such as multiple data centers, and will
be working on the integration plan over the next 90-days
Headway is being made elsewhere on removing other
obstacles to the wider adoption of e-prescribing. On Friday, the
Drug Enforcement Administration proposed regulations to allow physicians to digitally prescribe
restricted medications, such as drugs used to treat insomnia and
acute pain, and for pharmacies to receive and dispense the
electronic prescriptions. About 13% of all U.S. prescriptions are
for controlled substances.
In addition, Congress is expected to pass a bill tying the use of
the digital technology to physicians' Medicare payments, a move
that would provide perhaps the most significant boost to
e-prescriptions in general.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121487827346718397.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Drug Switching ( more profit ) by Pharmacies -- June 4, 2008
CHICAGO June 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Walgreens
today became the third national pharmacy to settle drug switching
allegations exposed by a whistleblowing veteran pharmacist whose
actions have returned more than $120 million to federal and state
governments. The cases against three of America's largest drug
store chains were pursued by Chicago-based whistleblower
attorneys Michael I. Behn and Linda Wyetzner under qui tam
provisions of state and federal False Claims Acts.
Prior generic drug switching cases by Lisitza
resulted in a $37 million settlement earlier this
year with CVS Caremark Corp., owner of CVS
pharmacies, and a $50 million settlement in late 2006 with Omnicare, Inc., the
nation's largest pharmacy for nursing homes.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/walgreens-pays-35-million-settles-pharmacist-whistleblower-qui-tam-drug-switching-allegations,420400.shtml
RFID chips cause EMI ( electromagnectic interference ) in
Hospital telemetry -- June 25, 2008
Whether active or passive chips, these
devices cause medical equipment to shut off
"In all, researchers conducted 123 EMI tests, and 34 EMI
incidents were recorded: 22 were considered hazardous (for
example, the turn-off of a mechanical ventilator or malfunction
of external pacemakers), two as significant (an inaccurate blood
pressure reading or alarm wrongly going off which might divert
attention from the patient), and 10 as light ("snow" on
the monitor, which didn't need attention).
The passive signal resulted in a higher
number of total incidents (26 out of 41, or 63 percent),
as well as more hazardous incidents
(17).
All incidents occurred at a median distance of 11.8
inches between reader and device. For hazardous
incidents, the median distance was 9.8 inches.
http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2008/06/24/hscout616833.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7471008.stm
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American
Medical Association reveals that wireless systems used by many
hospitals to keep track of medical equipment, also known as radio
frequency identification devices (RFID), can
be a threat to lifesaving devices like respirators,
external pacemakers and dialysis machines.
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Wireless_Chips_May_Interfere_with_Medical_Devices_Posing_Risks_19478.html
Health Link -- May 5, 2008 ... crisis = control
"The service will eventually be introduced throughout the
state and the nation. Sixteen hospitals in the
region have welcomed the System into their emergency room
protocol practices and signed on as program participants. Health
Link connects a person to his or her personal health record,
allowing partnering System hospitals, and their emergency room
doctors and nurses, to have immediate access to vital records during
a health crisis.
Health Link requires implanting program participants with a
tiny microchip (similar in size to a grain of rice) just
under the skin in the rear upper portion of the right arm.
The Health Link microchip contains a 16-digit identification
number that, when scanned by a Health Link hand held electronic
reader, provides a secure link to a private, online database
that reveals the patient's personal health records and emergency
contact information. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080429005913&newsLang=en
Google Health : Online Records -- May 19, 2008
http://www.crn.com/software/207801413
Seeking reimbursements from Insurance and Medicare, Medicaid for
chipping -- Jan. 8, 2008
This IRB-[ Institutional Review Board ] approved
study by the AMDA Foundation [ American Medical Directors
Association ] responds to the growing physician demand for the
VeriMed Patient Identification System. Upon completion of the
study, the Company intends to use the results to
seek reimbursement approval from insurance companies and the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The study will involve a total of 10 facilities
and 100 participants and will last one year, or until the 100th
hospitalization, whichever occurs later.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS137195+08-Jan-2008+BW20080108
http://www.rfidsolutionsonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B2D0C214D-E417-4DC4-A86C-6D5EBC92060C%7D&Bucket=Current+Headlines
FDA Launches Investigation Into Subdermal ID Chip --
2002
written by Jim Goldman, Tech Live Silicon Valley bureau chief on
Thursday, May 16, 2002
" VeriChip's problem, according to
Pellerite, is that the FDA was "very clear" in its
response to an email from the company seeking FDA approval to
sell its chip. At the time, the FDA responded -- informally
according to Pellerite -- that as long as "no medical
information" of any kind was encoded on the chip, and as
long as the chip was not used to link to any kind of medical
database, the company was free to go to market."
Once an identification number is retrieved from the chip, the
user can use it to access any information -- without making the
product a medical device," said David Hughes, vice president
of Technology Sourcing International, a consultant to Applied
Digital Solutions helping the company navigate the FDA approval
process. '
http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/37762/FDA_Launches_Investigation_Into_VeriChip.html?detectflash=false&
Ambulances : American Medical Response now equipped with VeriMed
scanners -- Nov. 14, 2007
VeriChip Corporation ...a
provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for
healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that its VeriMed
Patient Identification System has expanded to
Emergency Medical Responders. The Company has equipped 27 American Medical Response (AMR) ambulances
in three counties in the Atlanta metro area with Bluetooth's
enabled scanners. These ambulances are the first fleet of its
kind in the country to be equipped with the VeriMed system for
both emergency and non-emergency
transport of residents and patients from more
than 20 senior independent living facilities, assisted
living facilities and nursing homes in Fulton,
DeKalb and Clayton Counties.
Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of VeriChip, said, "This relationship with AMR,
the leading provider of medical transport in the U.S., is an
important step in the build-out of the VeriMed Patient
Identification System
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071114/20071114005086.html?.v=1
Global Healthcare ( MS - GCS ) software available --Oct. 29 ,
2007 "Global Care Solutions "
GCS offers several health-care IT products that
run on Windows, including software that automates patient record
keeping, billing, regulatory compliance, and clinical workflows.
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202602965
Opium to be legalized (painkiller ) -- Oct. 26, 2007
"the more noble the cause, the more devious the motive
"
Ed: The
social-engineers are hereby manifesting defeat; so let the masses
be numbed against the inevitable devolution
the Senlis Council
( think -tank Paris, France )
The European Parliament has proposed turning Afghanistan's
massive poppy crop into legal opium-based pain-killers
in order to enhance stability and reduce poverty in the
conflict-torn country
[ Ed: any rationalization will do ]
turning the illicit production
of the narcotic into legal analgesics.
"carefully and selectively engaging in manual
eradication".
[ Ed: eradicating Poverty, NOT Opium; in fact they are
multiplying opium farms in places where they have not been ]
The report, drawn up by Italian liberal MEP Marco
Cappato
"By linking the country's two most valuable resources
– poppy cultivation and strong local village control
systems, the controlled cultivation of poppy for the local production of morphine can be
secured," the think tank's Director of Policy Research, Jorrit Kamminga said
Afghanistan supplies more than 90% of the world's opium,
generating about €2.1 billion in revenues a year. The World
Bank has estimated that about 40% of Afghanistan's economic
activity is opium-related
http://euobserver.com/9/25049/?rk=1
200 more hospitals to have VeriMed - VeriChip System -- Oct. 11,
2007
This brings the total number of hospitals that
are registered in the VeriMed system to over 900. Additionally,
the Company now has more than 200 protocol-adopted hospitals in
its network, thereby surpassing its full-year stated goal of 800
hospital registrations and 200 protocol adoptions
http://www.pr-inside.com/verichip-corporation-adds-more-than-r241908.htm
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071011005335&newsLang=en
VC Soliciting ER doctors ( ACEP ) for VeriMed - VeriChip -- Oct.
3, 2007
" Historically, the Company’s
participation at the ACEP [ Ed: American College of Emergency
Physicians ] conference [Ed: State of Washington ] has resulted
in significant new hospital registrations for
the VeriMed Patient Identification System.
http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php?channel=fin&module=smarthouse&id=600296
Hospital Tags and Cisco wireless "Wi-Fi " -- Sept. 13,
2007 --Mexico
"AeroScout a
provider of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions, says it is taking
part in a digital hospital project at the new General Hospital in
Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico.
Utilizing a Cisco wireless infrastructure,
the installation includes AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based Active RFID
tags and software to track the location of mobile equipment
and patients. The General Hospital of Lagos de Moreno is the
first all digital hospital in Mexico and part of a progressive
program supported by the Mexican government to create
a network of all digital hospitals"
http://www.wirelesshealthcare.co.uk/wh/news/wk37-07-0006.htm
"Patient First" sells more Verichips -- Sept. 20, 2007
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/09/20/verichip-verimed-patients-markets-equity-cx_af_0920markets26.html
"Patient-First" : desperately discounting Verichip;
revenue from subscription-- Sept. 4, 20007
The PATIENT FIRST model enables all patients to
access the VeriMed Patient Identification System for no cost up-front and a nominal monthly subscription.
The VeriMed Patient Identification System, which utilizes an
implantable RFID microchip in combination with a handheld RFID
scanner and a secure patient database, provides immediate access
to important health information for patients who arrive at an
emergency department unable to communicate. This program will
enhance the marketability of the System by reducing patient's
up-front costs. The new program will also create a
recurring revenue model for the Company sooner than
expected. The Company's prior program required at least a
$200 direct payment by the patient at the physician's office.
Our new PATIENT FIRST marketing program will enable us to
significantly ramp up our business
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/09/04/2909001.htm
Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
VeriChip Corporation, said, Our new PATIENT FIRST marketing
program will enable us to significantly ramp up our business as
we increase our focus on the patient. This fundamental change
will eliminate what we believe presents an obstacle to patients
and physicians. Many physicians are uncomfortable asking their
patients to pay anything more than their co-pay. Similarly, many
patients are not used to writing a check to their physician for a
medical procedure.
As we continue our process of pursuing third-party insurance and
CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid) reimbursement, we believe
that PATIENT FIRST enables patients and physicians to participate
in a more patient-friendly payment model while providing the
Company with increased revenue opportunities from the VeriMed
Patient Identification System over the next 18 months. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070904005529&newsLang=en
Verichip gets coveted recommendation by the AMA -- June 27, 2007
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriChip
Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP), a provider of RFID systems for
healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on
Ethical and Judicial Affairs has adopted a policy
stating that implantable radio frequency identification (RFID)
devices may help to identify patients, thereby improving
the safety and efficiency of patient care, and may be used to
enable secure access to patient clinical information. VeriChip
has the only FDA-cleared RFID implantable microchip for patient
identification and health information purposes. VeriChip
anticipates that the AMA's recommendation will enhance the
Company's marketing efforts by accelerating the adoption by
hospitals of the VeriMed Patient Identification System and
increasing the profile of the VeriChip among the medical
community.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070627005809&newsLang=en
VeriMed "seed"
give-away -kits to 78 more hospitals -- May 21, 2007
( Ed: none dare call it "
subsidized bribery " )
VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ: CHIP), a provider
of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs,
announced today that 78 new hospitals agreed to participate in
the VeriMed Patient Identification System network at the Emergency Department Practice Management
Associations (EDPMA) tenth annual conference in Las
Vegas on May 16-18. More than 600 hospitals have now agreed to
participate in the VeriMed network
The new healthcare facilities agreed to use the
VeriMed reader as standard protocol to scan patients that arrive
in emergency rooms unconscious, delirious or
confused. The Company continues to
provide readers to hospitals and other healthcare facilities at no charge as part of
its efforts to "seed" the
infrastructure for the VeriMed patient identification system.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070521005623&newsLang=en
Verichip appoints Musher as Chief Medical Officer -- April 12, 2007
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriChip announced
today that it has appointed Jonathan Musher, MD,
CMD Chief Medical Officer and Vice
President, Medical Affairs. Dr. Musher served as
President of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA)
from 1998 to 1999.
As Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Medical Affairs, Dr. Musher will oversee VeriChip's medical activities
related to the continued implementation of the VeriMed Patient
Identification System, including clinical research and
medical information. Dr. Musher has over 20 years of clinical
hands-on medical experience. His expertise spans the spectrum of
acute care and long-term care services, from inpatient and
ambulatory care through home and hospice care to skilled nursing
care. He has published and lectured extensively in the areas of
Geriatrics, Long Term Care, and Medical Direction.
http://www.sys-con.com/read/360750.htm
An esophagus chip ( not VeriChip ) May 2007 encased in plastic
http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1371
Swallowing chips
All this is part of what experts like to call
“intra-body wireless communications”. In this more than
one chip could be embedded in humans and these chips relay
information to each other or to a receiver without interference,
just as a radio can be tuned to different stations. So in
diabetics, for example, an implanted glucose-level reader in one
part of the body can communicate with an implanted insulin-pump
elsewhere.
With such new innovations it will be more common in future to
have some wireless devices which are ingested, implanted or
simply attached to the body and linked to a network. It is still
early days, but a wireless future with edible chips is clearly
looming large on the horizon
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Magazines/The_Sunday_ET/As_You_Like_It/Wear_your_chip_or_eat_it/articleshow/2144224.cms
13 more diabetics take chip at Boston EXPO-- March 19, 2007
" Furthermore, these sign-ups by diabetic
individuals underscore the importance of our planned future
development efforts to commercialize a glucose-sensing
implantable microchip, with our sister company Digital Angel,
which was awarded a patent on this breakthrough product."
The next event will be held in Chicago on April
28, 2007."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-19-2007/0004548508&EDATE=
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,76410.shtml
Government to Subsidize the VeriMed System -- March 1, 2007
( implantable chip
required )
"DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 1, 2007 --
VeriChip Corporation ... a provider of RFID systems for
healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today its support
of the Personal Health Information Act,
introduced by Congressman * Patrick
Kennedy * . The bill proposes to set up a fund to provide financial incentives for
physicians who establish interactive electronic personal health
records for their patients
[ Ed:
Interpretation: If more people have to be chipped in order for
the VeriMed System to be widely operable, then by golly we'll
even possibly subsidize the chip-implantations. .. like, wave the
fee ? ]
" This is a significant step that will allow
physicians the ease to move a patient's data
from his or her electronic health record into a patient's
personal health record with a mouse click."
[ Ed:
Interpretation: All your private medical health issues go Online
in a huge database that is only accessed by health personnel [
supposedly ] . Now since they can retrieve this info remotely,
that means this personal info of yours is made available outside
of a professional atmosphere, and hence is far more vulnerable to
viewing by others.
http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X584854
http://www.patrickkennedy.house.gov/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B87DB052C-C148-48FA-A365-6592113E657A%7D&DE=%7BC4206E2A-357B-4194-846C-00752A90
EEA8%7D
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-01-2007/0004537314&EDATE=
Doctors to get $2 per enrollment of patients in VeriMed Sysytem
-- March 4, 2007
"Under the Personalized
Health Information Act, physicians would receive $2
for each patient for whom they build a personal health record
listing the diagnoses they make and the medicines they prescribe,
said Michael Zamore, a policy adviser in
* Patrick Kennedy's * office, at the Health IT Summit sponsored by the
eHealth Initiative"
http://threshinggrain.blogspot.com/2007/03/chip-off-old-block_04.html
Government subsidizes $ 139 million for subdermal chip plan -- March 9, 2007 Sharon
Stephens
"Grants will be distributed in the amount of $139 million [
Ed: dollars ] to assist with the President's
plan for digital medical records"
[ Ed: '
plan for digital medical records ' is a euphemism for having all
citizens VeriChipped ]
"to be obtainable within a decade " [ Ed: more sooner than later ]
"For more information please contact your health
provider"
[ Ed: or
your pastor, if he will address this issue ]
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/173015/the_reality_of_the_medical_microchip.html
VeriMed system ( digitized records ) now at over 500 hospitals --
March 13, 2007 .. subdermal chip system
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 13
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriChip Corporation , a provider of
RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced
today that 65 new hospitals have agreed to participate in the VeriMed Patient Identification System
network at the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) 13th
Annual Scientific Assembly conference in Las Vegas, bringing the Company's total number of enrolled hospitals to more
than 500.
http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X587959
18 Diabetics take subdermal chip --March 12, 2007 -- VPIS ---
Atlanta, Georgia
18 EXPOs planned for chipping
VeriChip Corporation (Nasdaq: CHIP),
a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related
needs, announced today it added 18 diabetic patients to its VeriMed Patient Identification System
at an Atlanta Diabetes EXPO sponsored by the American Diabetes
Association (ADA).
The VeriMed Patient Identification System, which
utilizes an implantable RFID microchip in combination with a
handheld RFID scanner and a secure patient database, provides
immediate access to important health information for patients who
arrive at an emergency department unable to communicate.
We will continue to focus on diabetics and to enhance our
relationship further with the American Diabetes Association. The
Atlanta Diabetes EXPO provides us direct access so we can
continue to educate an important target
audience."
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,72915.shtml
http://www.dlife.com/blog/archives/2007/03/welcome_to_the_2.html
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-12-2007/0004544045&EDATE=
VeriChip Inside
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4939
http://worldspinson.blogspot.com/2007/03/rfid-inside-nice-one.html
Hands On
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4940
What is the VeriMed Patient Indentification System ? ( Barbe head
of Sales )
Subdermal chip links
with medical database
"CHIP [ Nasdaq ] is also in the process of
rolling out what can be described as a somewhat controversial
product, the VeriMed Patient Identification system.
This system is the first and only human-implantable radio
frequency transponder system cleared for use for patient
identification and health information purposes. Yep, chips
implanted under the skin in a person’s upper right arm.
Unlike in other CHIP products, these implantable chips would be
'passive' meaning they would not transmit to a receiver
intermittently. Instead they would only be 'turned on' when
scanned by a receiver. The chips would also not contain any
patient information themselves, only a 16 digit identification
number. That number would then link to medical/identification
information stored in the receiver database. Note that CHIP is
currently trying to create the market for this device; they've
not derived revenues from this thus far
http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070211/26597_id.html?.v=1
Motion C5 Clinical Tablet
Motion Computing, a San Francisco-based
vendor of ultramobile computing and wireless communications, has
unveiled its new C5 mobile clinical assistant.
The Motion C5, created by Intel with support from Motion,
integrates durable design elements with key point-of-care data
and image capture technologies to simplify workflows, ease
clinician workloads and improve quality of care
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=6557
200 Alzheimers patients [ Ed : who
can't say "no" ]
and CARE GIVERS TOO
for VeriChip implant
Alzheimer's Community Care, Inc.
VeriMed Patient Identification System
Implantable VeriMed chip....
VeriChip Corp.
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 22, 2007
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriChip Corporation , a provider of
RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced
today it has partnered with Alzheimer's
Community Care, Inc., headquartered in West
Palm Beach, FL, to conduct a study of the effectiveness of the VeriMed Patient Identification System in
managing the records of Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers.
200 Alzheimers patients to
receive VeriChip implant ( VeriMed )
In the two-year, 200 patient study, participating individuals
suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other
forms of dementia, as
well as their caregivers, would receive
the VeriMed(TM) implantable microchip
to provide emergency department staff easy access to those
patients' identification and medical information
Alzheimer's
Community Care also believes it is important for caregivers to
obtain the implantable VeriMed.
If a caregiver becomes ill, the database will provide medical
information that the patient would be unable to
provide,[ Ed: ?? ] as well as inform medical personnel
that he or she is the caregiver for someone unable to care for
themselves.
http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X582809
Medical info on your person -- Feb. 11, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-healthy11feb11,1,5518736.column?coll=la-travel-headlines
Medical microchip: Risks and Uncertainties -- Feb. 6, 2007 Paul
Weyrich
And what is the biggest threat to patient privacy today? It is in
the form of a tiny microchip that can be embedded in a band, a
card or in the arm of a human being. Lest you think this is the
stuff of science fiction or a bad movie script, the Federal Drug
Agency (FDA) approved an imbedded microchip and chip
"reader" made by a company called VeriChip
in 2004 and the system is already in use in select hospitals
throughout the US.
The chip system allows an employee to scan the arm of a patient
with a microchip embedded in a hospital band or under his skin
and view a unique patient number. The number is then placed into a database, enabling an instant reading
of the patient's medical history and any other pertinent data.
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/PaulWeyrich/2007/02/06/medical_microchips_-_risk_and_uncertainty
And someday this tiny chip could contain the
information itself. It already is possible to put every bit of
medical information about a citizen on to an embedded chip, from
the day he is born to the day he dies.
there has been no study about whether this sensitive data is safe
from intrusion and/or theft. And if there is anything we have
learned in the computer era it is that where there is a will
there is a way. The criminals who invent malicious viruses or
steal information always seem to find a way in to a database,
especially when there is money to be made.
I suppose it is too much to expect that Congress anticipate new
technology, but at least Congress might try to keep up with what
already is available when drafting legislation. Plans were under
way for micro-chipping medical records when the original HIPPA
laws were passed and their existence certainly might have been
considered in the seven years it took HIPPA
to be enforced. Now the law must once again
try and catch up with what already is happening around ushttp://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=medical_microchips_-_risk_and_uncertainty&ns=PaulWeyrich&dt=02/06/2007&page=2
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Electronic Health Card Terminals ( Readers ) Ready -- Feb. 3,
2007
"The OMNIKEY Secure Interoperable
Chip Card Terminals (SICCT) from ASSA ABLOY
Identification Technologies (ITG) are ready for the upcoming
field trials for the introduction of the Electronic
Health Card (elektronische Gesundheitskarte,
eGK). Already in November 2006, at the Medica exhibition, the
OMNIKEY SICCT readers successfully demonstrated their seamless
interoperability with other telematic infrastructure components
in a realistic scenario from Siemens.
In broad-based field trials with up to 10,000 insured persons in
Germany, the "Gesellschaft f?r Telematikanwendungen der
Gesundheitskarte mbH" (gematik) is verifying procedures and
functionality of each element of the infrastructure. Starting in
March 2007, the SICCT based components will be tested in further
trial regions"
Accessable by Remote ( Ed: privacy secure ? )
"In addition, the sample application
supports a so-called Remote PIN: The HBA remains inserted in a
SICCT terminal, whereas the PIN can be entered on any
SICCT terminal and is securely transmitted via a LAN to the
terminal that contains the HBA. This enables physicians to easily
retrieve all data from different treatment rooms - even in a
sterile environment - without having to physically carry the HBA
with them "
The OMNIKEY SICCT reader offers as only device on
the market an integrated contactless read unit that enables
applications with RFID cards such as the comfort PIN for
physicians.
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=2588&display=RFID
Italian Analysis of MedChip, 2 years later -- Nov. 30, 2006 --
10 patient study
conducted by the Spallanzi National Institute of Rome Italy and sponsored
by the Italian Ministry of Health.
Richard Seelig, MD, Vice President, Medical
Applications of VeriChip Corporation
Doctor Giorgio Antonucci, Scientific Research
Director of the Spallanzi National Institute
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,28443.shtml
Canadians warn of loss of greater privacy -- Nov. 14, 2006
Kerr, a professor at the University of Ottawa,
portrayed a universe in the near future where people use
implantable microchips to communicate with each other and with
electronic devices through an ad hoc personal wireless network, a
universe where receivers tracking that information are a fixture
of public venues. [ Ed:
Zigbee and wOznet ]
Ultimately, the technology will exist to transmit information
like a person’s blood alcohol level directly to the police,
Kerr said.
Although that might be deemed a societal good, “What this
technology allows for is a kind of surreptitiousness
[Ed: secret
spying ] that would (also)
make it more difficult to hold accountable those that don’t
want to go down the privacy road,” he said after his speech.
[ Ed: In other words, people who do not want this new
technology will be looked upon with suspicion and targeted for
even more tracking and profiling to the negative...as in '
Minority Report ' ]
"The technology is closer than most Canadians believe, since
they’re still worried about having their credit card
information stolen, believe, Kerr said."
“Once we go down the road of
integrating machine parts into our body, we should ask ourselves
the question of why we are doing it,” he said in an interview
following his speech.
“In this case, the chip doesn’t do a whole lot more
than the Medic Alert bracelet, which is a fairly
non-invasive, privacy-friendly type solution. So I would ask the
question why – why move to
the next level ?
Existing electronic patient records are
already subject to misuse, as illustrated by a breach of
privacy at the Ottawa Hospital. In July, Ontario Privacy
Commissioner Ann Cavoukian upheld the complaint of an Ottawa
patient who warned that hospital that her ex-husband, a hospital
employee, might try to access her health information to use it in
a divorce and custody proceeding. Cavoukian found that a nurse at
the hospital – the
ex-husband’s girlfriend – had indeed accessed the
patient’s electronic file and
given the ex-husband information about the woman’s chronic
heart condition ...
If our staff don’t trust us to keep
their information private, why should
anyone else?”
One of the key issues from a privacy
perspective is the secondary use of
information in patient electronic
records. Although there are “compelling reasons”
for electronic health records, concerns arise when patient
information is used for research,
employment or insurance purposes, said Patricia Kosseim, general counsel with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of
Canada.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41099&cid=3
Canadian concerns over non-encryption on chip -- Nov. 14, 2006
Mr. Kerr said while there are many uses for the chips --
including inventory and stocking purposes envisioned by Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. -- they are not ready for health care. One problem is
that information is not encrypted on the current microchips,
which are about the size of a grain of rice.
Mr. Kerr said readers for the chips can be bought at electronic
shops for less than $100. Once a person has the information from
the chips, it can be copied and used in a malicious fashion.
Mr. Kerr said the chips are not recognized as medical devices,
which could pose legal issues. Doctors may not want to implant
them, and medical plans may not want to pay for them
Mr. Kerr said security is vital to any approach the government
looks at to help identify and track people and their health
information
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=40d97c6c-50ac-4fb1-aa70-c9f6ea3cd01c&rfp=dta
e-health records similar to online banking -- Oct. 27, 2006 --
but No privacy
Welcome to the world of electronic health
records, the medical version of banking online. Like electronic
banking, electronic health records – known widely as
e-health – are not a high-tech fantasy. They operate
worldwide and several electronic health record systems are being
trialled in Australia.
They also worried that the system was not secure – that too
many people in the healthcare chain could check confidential
patient records and contact details, seemingly at will. If so,
the consequences could be potentially devastating or dangerous.
"That made me nervous," admits Sprogis.
Rightly so, claims Anna Johnston, a privacy consultant and chair
of the Australian Privacy Foundation.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20655984-23289,00.html
VeriMed at 140 Emergency centers -- Sept. 6 , 2006
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060906/20060906005389.html?.v=1
MicroSoft develops Global health care network software -- July
28, 2006 Azyxxi
It may be a small deal for Microsoft, but the
company has larger ambitions in the growing market for health
care information technology. Hospitals, doctors and policy makers
worldwide have high hopes for saving money and improving the
quality of care by moving health care into the digital age and
handling patient records and tracking treatments electronically.
"This represents a change in our strategy," said
Peter Neupert, Microsoft's vice president for health strategy.
"This is the start for Microsoft. We're just getting
started."
The need to quickly collect, sort and display
health information from many sources, analysts say, is a vital
requirement in developing regional and national health
information networks - a policy goal in the United States and
dozens of other countries
From 2003 to 2005, Neupert served on President
George W. Bush's Information Technology Advisory Committee, and
he was co-chairman of a health technology panel that published a
report called "Revolutionizing Health Care Through
Information Technology
The software system Microsoft is buying is called
Azyxxi (pronounced ah-zik-see). It is designed to retrieve and
quickly display patient information from many sources, including
scanned written documents, and images like X- rays, MRIs,
angiograms and ultrasound
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/26/yourmoney/msft.php
First time verichip-verimed is used in the Emergency Room --July
27, 2006
Hackensack's emergency room medical staff had
immediate, secure access to Sgt. William Koretsky's identity and
medical history after scanning his VeriChip microchip and linking
it with the officer's patient information file stored on VeriChip
Corporation's secure database. Koretsky, a Bergen County Police
officer, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with
head, neck and back injuries after a high speed chase that
resulted in a car accident. He consented to disclosing his name
and information about the incident so that others could know of
the benefits of having medical records rapidly available
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=1955&display=RFID
http://www.wesh.com/health/9578161/detail.html
No real privacy with subdermal chip --
June 4, 2006
Dr. John Halamka desires mentally disabled
to be chipped
"Any authorized health care worker can visit a
secure web site hosted by the chip manufacturer and
retrieve information about his identity, and that of his primary
care physician, who could provide medical history details."
"For patients with Alzheimer's
disease who wander away from home, an identifier that enables
caregivers to identify non-verbal or confused patients and
determine their health care preferences could be very
desirable," he says.
There are significant ethical questions
about inserting chips in patients incapable of proving informed
consent.
"It is clear there are philosophical
consequences to having a lifelong implanted identifier. Friends
and associates have commented that I am now 'marked' and lost my
anonymity. Several colleagues find the notice of a device
implanted under the skins to be dehumanizing.
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/3190
IBM and Verichip
VeriMed(TM), is now a component of the
Hospital demonstration area of the IBM Solutions Experience
Lab located in Austin, Texas.
The IBM Solutions Experience Lab conducts
approximately 260 tours annually for corporations and
government agencies wishing to see demonstrations
of functional, integrated hardware and software solutions
for specific market sectors. The Hospital area demonstrates
currently available technologies compatible with IBM
healthcare solutions that provide
integrated, state-of-the-art capabilities in the healthcare
environment
The Hospital demonstration area illustrates the
potential of VeriMed to enhance the IBM Aligned Clinical
Environment Solution. This is an integrated
solution designed to connect disparate healthcare
information sources while also reducing costs. The solution
enables data collection and manages integration and
analysis of patient information
http://www.amex.com/?href=/newsDetails/CmnNewsDet.jsp?id=XpressFeed_NewsDetails_1126184569837.html
97 facilities have the VeriMed System ( VeriChip - database ) --
April 24, 2006
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24,
2006--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital
(NASDAQ: ADSX), announced today that 13 additional healthcare
facilities have agreed to implement the VeriMed(TM) System for
Patient Identification. The new hospitals bring the total
healthcare facilities that have agreed to implement the System to
97. Many of the new hospital signed up after attending
the Emergency Medicine Spring Conference in Las Vegas, sponsored
by the American College of Emergency Physicians' (ACEP)
Scientific Assembly, held from April 19 to April 21st
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060424005525&newsLang=en
Stanford Hospital uses VeriChip's Assetrac
System -- March 31, 2006
VeriChip Corp.said Thursday it has signed a contract to
use its Assetrac System for the location
and tracking of patient transport equipment
within the 613-bed facility of Stanford
Hospital and Clinics.
Assetrac will provide a combination of real-time and
zone-based location of approximately 800 pieces of
equipment anywhere in the Palo Alto hospital, using Radio
Frequency Indentification tags, receivers and software.
Installation is scheduled for April
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/03/27/daily45.html
AsseTrac System from VeriChip
http://www.verichipcorp.com/content/solutions/assetrac
RFID HealthCare -- April 17, 2006
http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/200604/technology01.shtml
116 digits on VeriMed tag in arm -- March 22, 2006
"Those 116 digits are then entered into a
secure Web site where his medical history is stored "
Privacy advocates fear that if retailers use the
same device they could read and modify the message, storing
information about your purchases and learn your medical history.
http://www.nbc10.com/health/8168279/detail.html
What's nobody's business is everybodys -- Lady Liberty ( a must
read )-- March 20, 2006
Good summary; lots of good internal links
[ Verichip] "Great idea, right? But there are
more problems. As of the end of last year, only 68 hospitals
could read such chips. The chances of your chip being read at the
closest hospital to you when you need one isn't high. But now
you've got a potentially hackable, clonable, reprogrammable chip
embedded in you that, whether your local hospital can read it or
not, most certainly can be read by the right kind of electronics.
Of course, you're probably not all that concerned that a medical
reference number be read by unauthorized personnel. After all,
what are they going to do with it? Medical records are private,
aren't they? Well, that depends on your definition of privacy."
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0306/0306business.htm
Wireless Medical monitoring --- March 19, 2006
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/14126260.htm
Implantable transceiver chip for REMOTE medical management --
March 2006
Looking to remote medical management, Zarlink
Semiconductor has introduced a transceiver chip for
wireless communications systems that link implanted medical
devices and base stations together
The ZL70100 ultra low-power chip meets the medical
implantation communications service (MICS) standard
set by the Federal Communications Commission and the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA605264.html?ref=nbcs
68 Hospitals now have the VeriChip - VeriMed System -- Dec. 1,
2005
Mostly on the East Coast and Arrowhead on the West Coast
VeriChip Corporation, a
subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX), a leading provider
of identification and security technology, announced today that 68
medical facilities, including 65 hospitals, have now
agreed to implement the VeriMed(TM) System for Patient
Identification. During the month of November, three
additional hospitals agreed to adopt the System. Three additional
healthcare organizations have recently agreed to adopt the
System:
one research center, one specialized care center, and one nursing
home.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051201005445&newsLang=en
DoD military's AHLTA for electronic medical records -- Nov. 25,
2005
"This is not just an electronic
health record that's built around one hospital, or even a local
community of hospitals. It moves information
globally," said Dr. William
Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health
affairs, who attended the event held at the
National Naval Medical Center [ Bethesda ]
The system is called AHLTA, and it
operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
Winken-werder said, noting all medical data is secured and
accessed only by authorized personnel. AHLTA -- not an acronym,
he said -- is the system's name
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/10_47/national_news/38459-1.html
If
the System can connect globally over medical data, how long
before financial data ??
How
long before the chip replaces the dog-tags ??
Internal VeriChip; External Surgichip -- Nov. 22, 2005
Ed
: made to look comparable, but vastly different
VeriChip’s VeriMed Patient
Identification product received FDA approval as a
Class II Medical Device one year ago. VeriMed is a tiny RFID
implant chip about the size of a rice grain that is injected in a
person’s tricep area. The chip contains a unique
identification number that serves as a pointer to relevant
medical information held in an external database. If the
patient is unconscious but implanted with such a device, a
medical worker only has to wave the reader over their arm to get
clues to their condition, Silverman says.
Surgichip: "Once
this information is verified to be correct, the chip is placed on
the incision’s site [ Ed externally] . The site is
marked by a medical marker before the patient is wheeled into the
operating room. The surgeon uses an RFID reader, during a
‘timeout’ session before the knife hits the skin, to
triple-check that the right patient is undergoing the operation.
http://www.cr80news.com/library/2005/11/22/fdaapproved-rfid-technology-eases-er-visits-reduces-wrongsite-surgery/
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center -- Nov. 22, 2005
COLTON,
California— Soon the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center may
be recruiting some patients to carry their
medical history with them at all times
— in a tiny microchip embedded under the skin.
The Board of Supervisors will vote today [ Ed. Tuesday Nov. 22 ]
on whether to approve a pilot program at the hospital in which at
least 50 volunteers will
have a microchip inserted into their upper right arm.
Arrowhead
Regional Medical Center will be teaming up with VeriChip
Corporation for the four-month program, according to the Board's
staff report.
The company has established an infrastructure of scanners across
the country.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/113266647489899.html
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