Microchips in medicine
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved an implantable computer chip that can pass along a patient's medical details to doctors, providing easy access to individual medical records.Digital Solutions, which manufactures VeriChips, radio frequency identification (RFID) microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to identify lost pets and livestock. But this marks the first time the FDA has approved the use of the device in humans for medical purposes.microchip is inserted under the skin of the arm or hand with a syringe in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no visible marks. The dormant chip stores a code similar to a UPC code on products sold in retail stores. At a doctor's office, unique16-digit codes are stamped onto chips. Emergency-room personnel and ambulance crews equipped with handheld radio scanners would be able to read the number on the chip. When a scanner passes over a chip, its code reveals patient-specific information such as known allergies, blood type, and prior treatments. The chip does not contain any records, but with the identifying number, healthcare providers would be able to retrieve critical medical data stored in computers. The records could be easily updated.Mexico, more than 1,000 scannable chips have been implanted in patients. The chip's serial number pulls up the patients' blood type and other medical information. But the chips can be used for more than just medical purposes. Mexico's attorney general and nearly 200 people working in his office have been implanted with chips so they can access secure areas containing sensitive documents related to Mexico's drug cartels. Similarly, British company Surge IT Solutions recently signed an agreement with VeriChip to use the technology to control access to government facilities.goers in Barcelona, Spain, now use a similar chip like a smart card to speed their drink orders and payments. About 50 patrons of the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona have had the chip implanted so they wouldn't have to carry around identification and credit cards.Digital Solutions has tried to deflect privacy concerns by arguing that the implantation of chips is voluntary and the only records linked to a VeriChip will be those authorized by the person with the chip. But critics fear that eventually employers, government authorities, and others may dictate how the technology is used. For example, soldiers could be required by the government to have a chip implanted for military identification purposes.scanners cannot read the passive chips from more than a few feet away, but design advances or the addition of a separate power source for the chip could expand those ranges and make possible the tracking of individuals with the chips.privacy fears and possible technical glitches, such microchips will be added to U.S. passports this year. E-passports, also dubbed "smart passports," promise to deter theft and forgeries, as well as speed up immigration checks at airports and borders. The State Department recently asked four technology companies to create proposals for introducing e-passports to the public. The agency will begin issuing them to citizens by spring, starting with people renewing or seeking new passports through the Los Angeles Passport Agency. A State Department spokesperson said the department plans to produce more than 1 million e-passports by the end of 2005 and by 2006 it expects all new passports to feature the microchips.RFID microchips store basic data, including the passport holder's name, date of birth, and place of birth. They hold 64 kilobytes of memory, enough room to store biometric data including digital fingerprints, photos, and iris scans. The chips are designed to last 10 years and incorporate digital signature and encryption technology. The State Department and the Department of Homeland Security plan to install facial recognition systems at immigration checkpoints in airports and elsewhere in about one year. Facial recognition scanners will automatically compare a person's face to the data about their face stored in the RFID chips, making sure they match.chips, which will be embedded in passport covers, can instantly broadcast their data to immigration officials with the right scanning equipment from a few feet away. This would allow officials to compare the information on the chip with the rest of the passport and the person carrying it.
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about VeriChip
VeriChip, along with its parent company Digital Angel and partner Receptors, is developing a bio-sensing device that would be included in a subdermal RFID chip that could lead to diabetics no longer having to stick themselves with a needle to monitor glucose levels.companies will host an event in New York Dec. 5 to announce plans to build a prototype self-contained implantable device that will have the ability to measure glucose levels in the human body., despite the possibility of doing away with a lifetime of needle pricks for diabetics, VeriChip may be fighting an uphill battle. In September, the Associated Press ran a story that said that both VeriChip and the Food and Drug Administration failed to mention a series of veterinary and toxicology studies dating to the mid-1990s that showed VeriChip's implants had caused malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.to the AP article, from 1996 to 2006, a number of studies reported incidences of malignant tumors in lab mice and rats that had been implanted with RFID chips; in some cases the tumors completely enveloped the chips.
the microchip(VeriChip) implants
VeriChip can provide medical and identity information when scanned., his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip. Later this spring, pending Food and Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first in a new generation of computer-enhanced human beings.his school uniform and his plump, pinchable cheeks, Derek Jacobs of Boca Raton, Fla., looks like an ordinary youngster. But looks can deceive. When he was 12, Microsoft certified Derek as a qualified systems engineer, one of the youngest ever. At 13 he was running his own computer-consulting company. Now hes 14, and whats Derek doing for an encore? Hes becoming a cyborg-part man-child, part machine.
Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip. Later this spring, pending Food and Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first in a new generation of computer-enhanced human beings. In some respects Derek is a regular eighth-grader. Hes quiet and polite. He plays the drums. He used to be on the swim team before he quit to make time for his computer business. He remembers vividly when he first saw VeriChip on the Today show. I thought it was great technology, he says. I wanted to be a part of it. And when Derek sets his mind to a problem, he generally solves it. Derek stood up and said to me, Mom, I want to be the first kid implanted with the chip, remembers Leslie Jacobs, an advertising executive at Florida Design magazine. He kept bugging me to call the company until I finally broke down.
Leslie set up a lunch with Keith Bolton, vice president of Applied Digital Solutions, the company behind VeriChip. At first Bolton (who jokingly refers to the Jacobses as the Chipsons) was skeptical. Since the first wave of VeriChip publicity, he has heard from roughly 2,500 would-be cyborgs. But the Jacobs family is particularly well suited to test VeriChip for use in medicine. If a patient with VeriChip were injured, the theory goes, a harried ER doc could quickly access the victims medical background by scanning the chip with a device that looks like a Palm handheld computer.
In the case of the Jacobses, that could be a lifesaver. Derek has allergies to common antibiotics, and Jeffrey is weakened from years of treatment for Hodgkins disease. A few years ago, he was in a serious car accident; and when he got to the hospital, he was in no shape to explain his condition to the staff. The advantage of the chip is that the information is available at the time of need, Jeffrey explains. It would speak for me, give me a voice when I dont have one.operation to insert the chip is simple. It takes about seven seconds, says Dr. Richard Seelig, the companys medical-applications director, exaggerating only slightly. An antiseptic swab, a local anesthetic, an injection and a Band-Aid-thats all it takes. Once the skin heals, Seelig says, the chip is completely i