VeriChips in Clinics by February -- Jan. 23, 2005
The implantation required local anesthesia to a two-inch area of my arm between my elbow and shoulder," he 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 ..which is next week ] 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=1234VeriChip: in emergency rooms and bars
"gut level " Christians
The practice has drawn criticism, however. Privacy advocates worry the technology would make it easier for the government to spy on its citizens and for marketers to identify customers and bombard them with sale pitches. Others object at a gut level, equating human RFID chips with the "mark of the beast," a demonic symbol described in the Bible.
http://news.com.com/Implanted+ID+chip+finds+way+into+ERs,+bars/2100-1041_3-5545802.htmlRFID tags: the people say no
A large number of letters also asserted that human RFID tags are a demonic tool. Several pointed out that in the Bible, Revelations 13:16-17 read: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
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