[privacy] VeriChip Corporation Announces American Medical Association Recommends Implantable RFID Devices to Improve the Safety and Efficiency of Patient Care

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070627/20070627005809.html?.v=1

VeriChip Corporation Announces American Medical Association Recommends
Implantable RFID Devices to Improve the Safety and Efficiency of Patient
Care
Wednesday June 27, 11:39 am ET 

        
As Only Company With FDA-Cleared RFID Implantable Microchip, AMA's
Recommendation Expected to Enhance Marketing Efforts 


DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP
<http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=chip&d=t>  - News
<http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=chip> ), a provider of RFID systems for
healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today the American Medical
Association's (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has adopted a
policy stating that implantable radio frequency identification (RFID)
devices may help to identify patients, thereby improving the safety and
efficiency of patient care, and may be used to enable secure access to
patient clinical information. VeriChip has the only FDA-cleared RFID
implantable microchip for patient identification and health information
purposes. VeriChip anticipates that the AMA's recommendation will enhance
the Company's marketing efforts by accelerating the adoption by hospitals of
the VeriMed Patient Identification System and increasing the profile of the
VeriChip among the medical community.
 
 

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