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Microchipping de los pacientes de Alzheimer comienza en la Florida
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Por David Gutierrez
La playa de Delray, Fla. - compañía basada VeriChip Corp. ha anunciado planes para implantar a 200 pacientes de Alzheimer en condado de la playa de la palma con las virutas de la identificación de la radiofrecuencia como parte de un estudio experimental para probar la nueva tecnología.
El microchip de VeriMed es aproximadamente el tamaño de un grano del arroz y contiene un número de identificación paciente de 16 dígitos, que está disponible para cualquier persona que explore el dispositivo con la tecnología derecha. Este número se puede entonces incorporar en una base de datos para recuperar la información médica de un paciente. The FDA has approved the chip for human implantation.
According to VeriChip’s CEO Scott Silverman, the VeriMed chip will eventually provide peace of mind to the families of Alzheimer’s patients by providing a safety net in case a patient should get lost.
“When an Alzheimer’s patient gets lost, once their arm is scanned, it would identify who they are and that they are an Alzheimer’s patient,” Silverman said.
The chip is not a GPS device, Silverman emphasized, and cannot be used to track people in whom it is implanted. All the participants in the two-year study are volunteers, and Silverman expressed pleasure with the study’s reception so far.
“We had an excellent turn-out at the educational seminars and virtually 100% enrollment,” he said. “This overwhelming acceptance underscores the value of the VeriMed system not only for Alzheimer’s patients, but their caregivers as well.”
But privacy and patients’ rights advocates have criticized the project, charging that it strips Alzheimer’s patients of their dignity.
The organization Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN), owner of the web sites spychips.com and antichips.com, has accused VeriChip of testing a potentially unsafe technology on the “most vulnerable” segment of the population, questioning whether Alzheimer’s patients are truly capable of giving their consent to be involved in such a study. CASPIAN has warned that the chips may cause adverse tissue reactions, problems with medical devices, electrical hazards and may place patients at risk of having their private information stolen.
Consumer health advocate Mike Adams added, “These Alzheimer’s patients are being used as guinea pigs as part of a campaign that intends to eventually microchip the entire population. Today, it’s senior citizens, pets and children… in the near future, it will be everyone.”
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