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VeriChip Markets Its Implantable RFID Tags and Services Direct to Consumers
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04/28/2008
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The company has launched a three-month advertising campaign for its newly rebranded Health Link system, and hopes to convince 1,000 South Floridians to get injected with rice-grain-sized transponders linked to health records.
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Surgeon Designs System to Monitor Orthopedic Implants and Promote Healing
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03/19/2008
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The system uses RFID, sensors and electric stimulators to assess the functioning of an implanted orthopedic device and the surrounding tissue, as well as to hasten surgical recovery.
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Children's Hospital Boston Joins Others Using RFID to Track Implantables
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03/05/2008
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A growing number of hospitals and surgical suppliers are employing passive RFID tags to help them monitor the inventory and usage of implantable surgical devices, as well as to manage billing.
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RFID News Roundup
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02/07/2008
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Parisian libraries to implement RFID; Rush University Medical Center to track implantable devices; Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner offers guidance for RFID health-care applications; Axcess International ships RFID-enabled ID card; UPM Raflatac debuts Hammer EPC Gen 2 inlay for metal; Loc8tor shrinks reader, tests car-finding app with Chevrolet U.K.; RSI ID Technologies' antenna for baggage tags.
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VeriChip's VeriTrace Platform Sees Sales Boost
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11/05/2007
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The system, which employs implantable tags to identify and track the remains of deceased individuals, is seeing gains in sales as states acquire it for disaster preparedness.
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Protecting Workers
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10/22/2007
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California has joined Wisconsin and North Dakota in banning forced RFID implants by employers, but does the law go far enough?
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USDA Approves Implantable RFID Tag to Track Horses
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09/13/2007
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The passive tag is now more aligned with international requirements for tracking animals, and is designed to help the agency's National Animal Identification System keep tabs on disease outbreaks.
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VeriChip Defends the Safety of Implanted RFID Tags
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09/12/2007
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There is no evidence, the company maintains, to support the notion that implanting RFID chips in animals or humans causes tumors.
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Maryland Dialysis Center Prepares for Tag-Implantation Project
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09/03/2007
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The Independent Dialysis Foundation hopes the trial, carried out in conjunction with VeriChip, will help spare its patients from unnecessary procedures and medications.
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Chipping Your Kid
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08/30/2007
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PC Magazine editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff thinks it's a good idea to implant RFID tags in children.
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