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ALSO NOTED: Senate pushes e-prescribing, too; Study says implanted medical history chips could save hundreds per ED patient; an

June 9, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Senate lawmakers say they're going to put their own provisions into place designed to encourage Medicare physicians to adopt e-prescribing. Read more...

Editor's Corner

March 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

 

Implanted RFID technology may well be a standard channel for transmitting electronic medical data at some point, but that day hasn't come yet.

Right now, RFID is battling it out against smart cards, flash …

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FL law would ban chip implants without consent

March 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Ideally, patients will only have RFID chips implanted in them if they're on board with the idea. However, a Florida state Senator fears that if protections aren't put into place, patients could have such chips implanted against their will. To make sure this doesn't happen, Senator Bill Posey (R) has filed a bill that would prohibit chip implantation without prior approval. The bill, which some Florida legislators consider a bit, well, paranoid, has nonetheless won approval from the state …

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ALSO NOTED: RFID's many benefits; Big gaps in HIPAA compliance; and much more...

October 22, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> A U.K. health consultant offers a litany of ways in which providers can use RFID chips to improve operations, including patient, medical device and drug tracking. Article

> A HIMSS study has found, among other things, that many larger hospitals aren't meeting HIPAA security standards, and that nearly one-quarter of providers aren't meeting privacy requirements. Ouch. …

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