Insurers to Test Implantable Microchip
By THERESA AGOVINO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) - In a new test program, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of New Jersey plans to implant patients suffering from chronic diseases with a microchip that will give emergency room staff access
to their medical information and help avoid costly or serious medical errors, the insurer said on Friday.
Horizon plans to announce on Monday that it is teaming up with
Hackensack University Medical Center in a pilot program where 280
patients regularly treated at the hospital will be implanted with a
chip containing a code. The chip would allow emergency room personnel
to retrieve a patient's medical record if the individual can't communicate.
The rice-sized microchip is implanted in a patient's right arm above
the elbow and can be detected using equipment at the hospital.
The hope is that the chips will help doctors avoid medical errors like duplicating medical tests, dangerous drug interactions and bad
diagnoses.
Within the next 30 days, Horizon will start sending letters to
patients with chronic diseases explaining the new program and
inviting them to participate. The program is voluntary and won't
cost the patient any money to participate.
Patients with chronic conditions are the program's target because they
are more likely to have serious medical problems that could leave them unable to communicate when they are at the emergency room, said Dr. Richard Popiel, vice president and chief medical officer at Horizon.
For example, diabetics with low blood sugar may become confused or unconscious.
He said Horizon will test the program for two years to see if it
warrants expansion.
VeriChip Corp. makes the chips and detection equipment. Hackensack
already had the equipment because it was part of VeriChip's
development program.
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The rice-sized microchip is implanted in a patient's right arm above
the elbow and can be detected using equipment at the hospital.
Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can be
ANY benign or positive application of this technology. . .
Is that so?
The rice-sized microchip is implanted in a patient's right arm above
the elbow and can be detected using equipment at the hospital.
Should be implanted on the inside of the upper left arm. Right
where those tattoos were placed something over half a century ago.
Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can be ANY benign or positive application of this technology. . .
Is that so?
Mulling over Bob Ackley to Steve Asher 18 Jul 2006
The rice-sized microchip is implanted in a patient's right arm above
the elbow and can be detected using equipment at the hospital.
Should be implanted on the inside of the upper left arm. Right
where those tattoos were placed something over half a century ago.
They might put the implant in the left arm, for those who have no
right arm. For the moment, it is just the nanny state at work seeking
to "protect the vulnerable"; before long it can expand into a means
of identification and control of [ illegal immigrants / terror
suspects / access to secure facilities / kidnap "prevention" / school lunches and libraries / voting / purchasing etc ] and ultimately
everyone.
Mulling over George Pope to Steve Asher 18 Jul 2006
Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can be
ANY benign or positive application of this technology. . .
Is that so?
You are free to infer whatever you wish from any post in this echo (or
any other echo, or source).
Replying to a message of George Pope to Steve Asher:
Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can beANY
benign or positive application of this technology. . .
Is that so?
Not WRT people. Those who need or want to carry such ID can do so on
a chain
around their neck. I have a major problem with chipping infants (and that's what's
coming) shortly after birth and using that chip to keep track of them throughout their
life. Right now it's voluntary. Before much more time passes it will become
mandatory as the government encourages employers and businesses (especially banks,
which are directly under federal supervision) to use them to ID
employees and
customers.
Right now the technology exists - and is used - to ID every single
product item in
commerce, down to individual cans of vegetables or soda pop. Not just
the
ubiquitous bar code that identifies the manufacturer and the product
but a chip that
identifies the specific item - even if there are millions of them
made.
A bank robber in Omaha was recently caught using this RFID technology.
Seems he
wrote his note on a scrap of a cardboard product box and left it at
the bank. That
scrap had the tiny spy chip in it and the police used it to find (a)
the manufacturer,
(b) when and where it was manufactured and where it went from the
maker, and (c)
the store the item was sold in. Then they went to the store, reviewed
its computer
records and found the specific date and time - to the second - that
the product
was sold and on which register. From there they reviewed the store's security camera
records and got a picture of the robber, which the bank tellers were
able to recognize
despite the diguise he'd used at the bank. The whole process took
only a couple of hours.
Had he used a check or credit card to pay for the merchandise they
could have been
waiting at his house for him to come home.
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On (19 Jul 06) Steve Asher wrote to George Pope...
Mulling over George Pope to Steve Asher 18 Jul 2006
Posting this in this echo implies you don't believe there can be
ANY benign or positive application of this technology. . .
Is that so?
You are free to infer whatever you wish from any post in this echo (or
any other echo, or source).
I prefer to hear the actual facts from the person himself, not
infer anything that would have too muh chance of being in error (as
I don't have the benefit of hearing YOUR view on it!)
So, WRT that robber, sounds like the technology was used fairly & well indeed, don't you think so?
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