November 10, 2004 12:50 PM PST
Medical supply firm to sell patient RFID chips
The rice grain-size devices, called VeriChips, enable doctors and other medical staff to instantly retrieve patients' medical records by scanning chips injected into the fatty tissue in their arms--much like a clerk scanning a can of peas at the grocery store. The distribution deal, announced Wednesday, is a big one for VeriChip maker Applied Digital. Henry Schein, based in Melville, N.Y., sells medical supplies to nearly 115,000 private medical practices in the United States and booked $3.4 billion in sales last year.






- Can anyone say....
- by November 11, 2004 4:26 AM PST
- ...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?
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- The data is not on the chip itself
- by georgegliddy November 11, 2004 4:06 PM PST
- 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.
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