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RFID Skin Patch Wirelessly Transmits Your Medical Info to Your Doctor's Cell
Posted by Jennifer Hooker at 3:45 AM on November 7, 2007
Doctors and nurses will soon be able to receive updates on their patients with a quick glance at their cellphones, thanks to RFID skin-patch technology developed by Gentag, a DC-based IP development company. The Band-Aid-like patches are flexible and water resistant, and will be able to keep track of a patient's drug interactions and allergies in a non-invasive way so that medical charts can be easily updated, hopefully leading to fewer hospital mistakes. RIFD chips have been used in medicine before, but usually were implanted into the body rather than being placed in a patch on the skin. [Ubergizmo]
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goblyn13
Posted 2:46 PM 6/11/07
what happens when the skin patch falls off or they put the wrong patch on you?
goblyn13
Y2KGTP
Posted 2:36 PM 6/11/07
What happened to "please turn off all cell phones"? while in the hospital? Even cell phone friendly hospitals, phones have poor reception...
Y2KGTP
Redwraithvienna
Posted 2:08 PM 6/11/07
Just one question : Is it really clever to have your medical records on an RFID Chip, that can be read (maybe not decrypted) by any RFID reader ? And what if the encryption is broken and one can read your medical history by just walking through the hospital halls ...
Redwraithvienna
nutbastard
Posted 3:37 PM 6/11/07
Why not just program them all to read: Patient Probably Has Cancer Around This Chip:
[science.slashdot.org]
Do NOT get these things implanted. I warned you.
nutbastard
nutbastard
Posted 4:45 PM 6/11/07
damn, i shoulda RTFA... this not implant.
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nutbastard
Posted 4:44 PM 6/11/07
ALSO, this is no better than a card in your wallet. because of capacity limitations, all they can put on there is a 16 digit number (don't axe me if im off, but it's close enough) that they retrieve, THEN they have to put it into a database and look up your records. Not any faster than now, since you would have to go around and digitize your history and upload it to the server, so why not just carry a medical thumbdrive, or card, and cut out the middleman, and the RFID?
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FreeMan
Posted 4:01 PM 6/11/07
What happens when my kid gets one, then he goes out to play (like 12 year olds should. Anyone here remember 'outside'?) and his chip falls off in the leaves. There go all his medical records and the poor nurse/doc will have to actually do work again...
FreeMan
strider_mt2k
Posted 5:52 PM 6/11/07
My ghod, direct cell to cell communication!
Take THAT Endoplasmic Reticulum!
Take THAT mitochondria!
(See Mr. Phipps? I remembered that crap!)
strider_mt2k
albokay
Posted 8:03 PM 6/11/07
I wonder if you can assign a ringtone to a specific things.
Like if someone beams over that they have the clap, an applause ringtone will play.
I think it would bring a bit of humor to an otherwise horrible situation.
Maybe ill create STD tones for this occasion.
albokay