Not Charts, Chips
NJBIZ, Aug 29, 2005
Patients coming to Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth may one day be scanned upon entry to quickly track down their medical information. The hospital is adopting the VeriMed System that will allow patients with a microchip called a VeriChip implanted under their skin to be scanned for an identifying number to call up their personal medical history. The system was created by VeriChip, a subsidiary of Applied Digital in Delray Beach, Florida. Trinitas is the third hospital in New Jersey to implement VeriMed and will evaluate the system in its two emergency departments.
The chip is about the size of a grain of rice and uses radio frequency identification to identify the patient when scanned by a handheld reader. The VeriChip will match the patient to medical information they submitted to a corresponding database.
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