Comments on: Medical supply firm to sell patient RFID chips

Henry Schein will distribute Applied Digital's implantable VeriChips to doctors' offices across the country.

Can anyone say....

...HIPPA? I have a real problem with using RFID in this manner. In my mind it doesn't matter that the data is stored in an encrypted state, it can still be read quickly, and then decrytped later on in a more secure location without time constraints. So how can this be HIPPA compliant?

[georgegliddy]

The data is not on the chip itself

I too do not trust this technology, but the "data" in the chip is just an ID of some kind. The database (not on the chip) will pull up your health data based on your chip's ID number.