8 news & feature articles results for "hospital verichip"

Tue Jul 27 2004 Under-the-skin ID chips move toward U.S. hospitals
VeriChip, maker of subcutaneous RFID tags used to unlock doors or identify people, gets preliminary nod from FDA.

Posted by Michael Kanellos
Thu Nov 1 2007 Chip gets under CIO's skin

Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka is on the cutting edge of technology, both professionally and personally. Not only does he manage 2 million patients, 3,000 doctors and 150 major applications, ...

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Tue Feb 15 2005 The man with the RFID arm
Should data-packed chips be implanted in people? One man with a VeriChip says being tagged is no big deal.
Photo: Armed with RFID
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Posted by Michael Kanellos
Fri Apr 22 2005 Police Chief gets chip implant

Posted by Alorie Gilbert
Wed Oct 13 2004 FDA approves injecting ID chips in patients
Regulators sign off on implantable tracking device to manage treatment of Alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, other conditions.

Posted by Alorie Gilbert
Mon Feb 12 2007 Patients, doctors staying away from implantable RFID chips
RFID chip company gets ho-hum response to its initial public offering, partly because only 222 people have gotten chipped.

Posted by Michael Kanellos
Thu Jan 12 2006 RF-IDing the dead
After Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi coroner Gary Hargrove used RFID chips to avoid mix-ups. He now endorses their use whole-heartedly.

Posted by Alorie Gilbert
Mon Aug 23 2004 Human chips more than skin-deep
Better health care and fraud protection may sound good, but are they worth the potential privacy trade-offs?

Posted by Michael Kanellos

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