[privacy] Mark of the Beast Alert: RFID to Gets Under Patients' Skin?

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Never in a million, jillion years. :-)

Via Australian IT (AFP).

[snip]

Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin
of their patients, the American Medical Association says.

Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could
give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill
patients, the US's largest doctors group says in a report.

The association approved their use to improve the "safety and efficiency of
patient care" by helping to identify patients and enabling secure access to
clinical information.

These radio frequency identification tags are already used by Wal-Mart and
other businesses to speed up their shipping systems by sending out small
signals that can be scanned more easily than barcodes.

Implanting them in people "can improve the continuity and co-ordination of
care with resulting reductions in adverse drug events and other medical
errors," the report says.

The devices, however, "also may pose some physical risks, compromise
patient privacy, or present other social hazards", the report says.

[snip]

More:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22004904-15306,00.html

- - ferg

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