Microchip Links To Electronic Patient Records

“Residents of the Greater Palm Beach area can now take more control of their personalized healthcare by enrolling in Health Link, a bio-medical technology that is currently being introduced by the VeriChip Corporation of Delray Beach, in cooperation with 16 regional hospitals, including Bethesda Healthcare System, Good Samaritan Medical Center, JFK Medical Center, Jupiter Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center.”
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Wireless Healthcare, 1 May 2008

VeriChip launches consumer campaign for ID chips

“As we expected last week, VeriChip has launched a consumer campaign on behalf of its implanted ID chips under the name HealthLink.”
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare, 29 April 2008

Remote Patient Monitoring

“Readers of Telemedicine and e-Health will remember the published summary of an expert panel discussion on remote health services (2007;13(3):341–347). One clear message emerging from the above roundtable was that fully mature technology is now available to host numerous patient care applications. Just a few years ago remote patient monitoring was regarded as still experimental, albeit with great potential to reduce healthcare costs.
Perhaps the Baby Boom generation, with its take-charge attitude toward health, is most responsible for the field’s explosive growth, particularly in the last five years. There are ready-made audiences for such technology. Baby Boomers are worried not only about their own health but also about keeping their elderly parents safe, healthy, and secure. This is particularly attractive when geographic distances prevent frequent family visits.”
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Kevin D. Blanchet, Telemedicine and e-Health, March 1, 2008, 14(2): 127-130, doi:10.1089/tmj.2008.9989

Glucose Chip Plans to be Unveiled

“Delray Beach, Fla.-based VeriChip Corp. will unveil plans next week for a forthcoming implantable radio frequency identification chip that can measure glucose levels in the human body.”
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Health Data Management, 28 November 2008

Kai Sensors Secures US Army Funding for Radar on a Chip

“Kai Sensors is a Honolulu-based developer of wireless heart rate and respiration sensing technology. Its heart sensing radar technology named LifeReader has the ability to detect and monitor heart and respiration activity of multiple subjects wirelessly.”
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Telecare Aware, 22 October 2007

Zukünftige Informationstechnologie für den Gesundheitsbereich

Which IT applications will be technically feasible in the healthcare branch by 2020?

“Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik ist für den Gesundheitssektor eine Schlüsseltechnologie für die Entwicklung neuer Produkte und Dienstleistungen. Im Rahmen von FAZIT wurde daher in einer Vertiefungsstudie die Relevanz und das zukünftige Potential der Technikentwicklung, gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz und wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung von informationstechnologischen Innovationen für den Gesundheitssektor in Baden-Württemberg untersucht.”
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Kerstin Cuhls, Jürgen von Oertzen, Simone Kimpeler, Fazit Forschung, Schriftenreihe Band 6, May 2007

Are all possible IT innovations in healthcare desirable?

“From artificial kidneys to robots as nursing staff in hospitals, information technology (IT) is becoming increasingly important in preventive healthcare and the treatment of diseases. But not everything that is technically possible will also be accepted, say researchers from the German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).”
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eHealthnews.EU, 22 September 2007

American Medical Association boards implantable chip wagon

“The influential American Medical Association (AMA) has thrown its weight behind what might be called medical human bar-coding by adopting a policy that endorses the provisional use of implantable radio frequency identification tags, or microchips, to store medical information under the skin of patients.
But delegates to the 2007 Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates held in Chicago in June recommended approaching the brave new world of microchipping humans with caution.”
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Wayne Kondro, CMAJ, August 14, 2007; 177 (4).