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PositiveID The “Chip” People are Back-an Agreement with Siemens To Expand Wireless Body Monitoring With A Chip Implant

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:30:00 GMT

Back in July of 2010, the chip folks kind of hung it up and people didn’t want to be chipped but now Siemens has an interest here. This involves monitoring body behaviors with the identification of an implanted medical device in the body. In short it looks like Siemens is going to explore the use of the implants combined with other technologies, RFID. Put the chip and monitor the patient in short.

The Medical Records Implant Has Died - PositiveID No Longer Marketing the Implanted Chip

They had the technology already to connect to a personal health record with data and had some research in the direction of diabetes management. Here’s a past article on that research as well as one on the personal health records.

Prototype of iGlucose Product Created by Positive ID – Wireless Glucose Readings in Real Time

VeriChip Implant Links To Your PHR Health Records, Credit History, Social Security With PositiveID

So in the near future you may be looking at Siemens wanting you to be “chipped” with this agreement with Positive ID and this looks to be even more data intense than just storing records and slaps bit of “big brother”, so you be the judge there as I understand from reading here this chip is going to be implanted manager.

Wait until your Wellness Company drops this one you one day for reduced insurance premiums! It could happen as there’s very little in way of laws that regulate that side of this business. BD

PositiveID announced it has entered into an agreement with Siemens related to its Wireless Body platform, an integrated, internal and external, smart health care communication system that has the ability to deliver personalized medical solutions wirelessly.

The license agreement grants PositiveID rights to utilize key intellectual property and Siemens’ patent titled “Method and System for Identification of a Medical Implant” using RFID.

RFIDNews | PositiveID, Siemens enter license agreement to expand Wireless Body Platform

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Microsoft Tags in Healthcare – Comments and Demonstration at “Microsoft Connected Conference” with Surface

Anonymous — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:35:00 GMT

Now the big job is to get an open ear from the FDA too so all device companies, drug companies could maintain a synchronized data base and this could even go up into a cloud depending on design. Just think the FDA having an automated update system with alerts so they too could know in real time when recalls or additional safety information was added. A Microsoft Tag was even used on the Surface Demonstration at the Microsoft Connected Conference with logging in. Here’s a screenshot below, he puts down his card with his Microsoft Tag on the table and he’s logged in. Embed of the full video below.

Whether you have a Smartphone, a BlackBerry, IPhone or an Android, this is probably the easiest and simplest application for phones to use once you install it.

Open program, aim phone and shoot. In case you missed the first post, there’s the link below and there’s also a link to Microsoft.Gov who ran post as well.

Microsoft Tags – Microsoft MSDN Posts Ideas from the Medical Quack About Use in Healthcare!

It’s that easy and would simple for consumers as well as for those on the Health IT side.

You can read the first comment below from a Mom who had 7 products from J and J who said she sure could have used it to scan the products to check for recalls. As mentioned below too I have had some readers from the biotech industry reading up on the Tags.

This comment talks about how great they work on an IPhone and sees as an enhancement at the hospital.

This IT person says, yes, combine with RFID at the hospital as they already work with bar coding.

About halfway through the video you can see where the Microsoft Tag is used to log him in on Surface. This has really moved along since I played with Surface and the original demo of HealthVault.

I made up a couple of my own tags on the blog and these two work, one opens up the blog on a mobile browser and the other opens up a simple text document I made up.

One other item to note these can be an avenue to get information in to your PHR with your phone with HealthVault too, so that becomes easier if consumers already use the program for other functions, again so darn easy to use, a no brainer. Something this simple to use will stand to enhance consumers with the use of Health IT too so we get more “participants” all the way around. BD

http://blogs.technet.com/neupertonhealth/

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Connected Conference, Microsoft Tags, heatlhcare, technology, HealthVault, healthcare, FDA, safety, RFID, EHR, PHR, Surface

VeriChip Television Ad – Does This Make You Want to Run Out And Get Chipped?

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:45:00 GMT

Not too long ago I posted about the changes to VeriChip and how it now connects to data rather than storing it as the previous model did. I think we need to page Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston and see what he has to say. He’s the only one I know that has been chipped and perhaps he has upgraded and is he connecting to his Google Health Records yet?

VeriChip Implant Links To Your PHR Health Records, Credit History, Social Security With PositiveID

I always say the value of information you get from those who participate and have some “hands on” experience are the absolute best people to speak with. The video shows the device being used to scan the chip and get the records.

For right now, I think I’ll work with mine online, not quite ready for this step yet, but that is just me personally. BD

When you add this to VeriChip’s previous marketing activity — in which they implanted the chips in cuties on Miami’s nightclub scene so they didn’t have to bother showing ID or carrying cash — the impression it gives is that VeriChip does indeed want everyone to be implanted.

VeriChip TV Ad Confirms Critics' Fears: They Want Everyone Implanted | BNET Pharma Blog | BNET

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Wireless Healthcare Medical Devices and the FDA – The Reasons They Are Slow to Come to Terms

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:09:00 GMT

This is a whole new open territory for the FDA and as I have mentioned before as late as 2008, all the investigators and analysts didn’t have computers, but all that aside, how is wireless going to be approved by the FDA. This is a tricky one to say the least, not tricky per se in what it does but they also have to make sure the data is going in the right direction.

Below I have included some related information from another article, which speaks about a trial with Novartis, a pharma company and their 20 person trial with an implant with each patient for taking blood pressure medication. What pharma and insurance companies want is “compliance” to continue to yield profit, and if it helps the patient along the line, then it appears to be a win-win. Both entities have enjoyed very large profits over the years and the weaning process of getting less for both is tough.

The trial used the “Pill on a Chip” process, where each pill contained a chip, and the patient had a chip inserted under their skin, so when a patient took the pill with the chip, it talked to the chip inserted under their skin and sent the “DATA” back through a cell phone to those collecting the information. You can read more about the VeriChip link below that connects to PHRs.

VeriChip Implant Links To Your PHR Health Records, Credit History, Social Security With PositiveID

Also mentioned is Healthphone, who’s site was down at the time of this writing, but has a long time relationship with Microsoft according to this article.

This week I had also posted about another compliance article, a pill bottle that talks to your cell phone. I will make one statement here with all of this connectivity, get a PHR and do not use a device unless it uses the PHR Gateway. Why, so you can remain in charge and cut it off when you want. Of course this would not necessarily be the case with items such as an implanted defibrillator, but those devices that measure compliance and the ones that are not life and death, go the PHR route to protect your privacy. The link below gives the details on how your information also gets used by the pharmacy and helps you along to having your medication history sold. Do you care, well you should as you really need to know who has it. Remember your compliance and medications can go right back in detailed data report to the insurance companies.

The Pill Bottle That Talks To Your Cell Phone, Creates Data Reports and More…

All of this technology with a not so smart Congress bothers me a bit having written code as I have a pretty good ability to project where the next steps are with integration since I did that for a while. Insurance companies want their data and devices that report data are the ultimate data orgasms for them if you will, as they can pin and nail the numbers down to the exact 10th of a second for all your activity. When there’s questions and conflicts they mine through it and chances are pretty good you will not come out a winner with debates.

No wonder the FDA is in a quandary over some of this, are they responsible now for privacy and grant the approval for use of the wireless devices when it ends up selling your information? Give that one some real thought. These are basically a agency that has been responsible for chemical related products for years, drugs, and some medical devices, so their area of expertise has had to expand as well.

The them of Proteus is Intelligent Medicine and you can watch the video here. We talk about integration with software on our computers, well their goals are to integrate devices, as you can see in the couple screenshots, will your pacemaker also control your diabetes? Will your hip implant be talking to a monitor you stick in your shoe? There’s no limit on some of this stuff and yes it will get crazier and then this moves into real life, that’s when we need to worry and read up to be prepared.

These devices all send text messages with the intention of making you a better patient and reminding you, but let’s say you have an iPhone that you use to check in with wellness coaches 4 times a day wirelessly to let wellness coaches know your activity level to give you discounts on your health insurance, and then you have an implant with texting pills, and maybe even a defibrillator that talks to the iPhone, and then you need to remember to take your glucose each day so the phone and device text you as well, so now you have an army of devices bugging you constantly. If you were working in a retail store, forget helping the customer when they need it, you have to take care of your health and be on time as the compliance managers are watching! Gee!

Back on track with the FDA, if they approve products that cause insanity, well they don’t want that responsibility either for symptoms of such to be caused by those only on the money trail and wanting sales. Again, so many of the companies who create such products all have their own software and tell you, no sweat, your doctor is going to monitor all your conditions and take real good care of you. Well he/she’s no superhuman, so throw out about 12 different types of data software for him to check in with, or worse, getting all of your messages sent to his phone, he’s overdone and has no time to see patients any longer. If they have an EMR that connects with this data they may have more of a standing chance, but still they are not going to be able to see every piece of data the second it is released. If there is a 3rd party who collects and analyzes the data before going to your doctor, find out who, what and where they are. There’s all kinds of advertising with some of the devices and you need to read the fine print and check out all their advertising or other partners so you know up front what is happening with your data.

Unless the data reporting device situation is coordinated with better implementation methodologies, you may end up someday having to wait at Verizon or AT &T for an “FDA approved” cell phone too. Right now the market is to sell, sell, sell and hey if you can be cornered into insanity with a dozen devices, they’ll do it, so again use common sense and get involved. Demand that your information be routed through a PHR first so you are in control.

FDA Trying to Figure Out Web 2.0 – Public ...

Devices are not a bad thing, but like everything else today they can be over marketed and you could be driven to the point where you may have more than what you need, just think if yourself as “human email” and that will make the point very clear. We are all over loaded with email. So for wireless and the FDA I don’t see the conservative approach moving a lot faster and for good reason, but by the time it may be approved, there may also be a better and improved product out there too, but that’s how it works with research and development in today’s world, drugs too. BD

Computerworld - SAN DIEGO -- Makers of wireless electronic health devices bemoaned the federal product approval process and stingy insurance reimbursements for life-saving technology that they argued could reduce overall national health-care costs.

Despite a federal priority on health care reform, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not doing all it should to boost approval of wireless e-health devices for monitoring patients, said Eric Collins, CEO of Montage Systems, during a panel discussion at the International CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment conference.

The wireless e-health industry "has a huge opportunity to improve the health care system and reduce costs, but Washington is clearly not paying attention to technology at this level, " Collins added during Thursday's panel presentation.

Aaron Goldmuntz, director of business development for CardioNet, said his company began offering wireless cardio monitoring technology nearly a decade ago and described FDA approvals of the technology as having generally gone smoothly. However, his company recently faced a reduction in insurance reimbursements for which CardioNet patients are eligible.

Collins said he is trying to get FDA approval for the Healthphone, a handheld device about the size of a pager that gathers data wirelessly from a patient's body and forwards it over a network to a computer monitored by doctors or other caregivers.

A related function calls for using the device to monitor an orthotic device inserted in a diabetic patient's shoe which would notify the patient wirelessly if a pebble or other foreign object entered the shoe that could cause a sore.

Makers of wireless health devices bemoan slow FDA approval process

Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has tapped intelligent medicine start-up Proteus Biomedical for a small 20 patient study to track patients’ compliance with their blood pressure drug regimen. The patients are taking blood pressure drug Diovan and the study organizers track their compliance via Proteus’ “chip in the pill” technology, which reports to a receiver sensor on the patient’s shoulder when the medication has been ingested. The study has improved compliance from 30 percent to 80 percent after six months, according to Novartis.

Proteus’ Raisin technology runs on an electric charge generated by the patient’s stomach acid. The charge is detected through the patient’s body by a sensing patch on the patient’s skin. The patch records the time and date that the pill is digested and also measures some vitals like heart rate, activity and respiratory patterns. The information is then sent to the patient’s mobile phone and then onto the internet for caregivers to review and analyze.

http://mobihealthnews.com/4513/novartis-proteus-pilot-to-lead-to-exclusive-deal/

Technorati Tags: Novartis,medical devices,data reporting devices,healthcare,FDA,Chip in the pill,study,wireless,RFID,Proteus,medication compliance,Pharma,Big brother

VeriChip Implant Links To Your PHR Health Records, Credit History, Social Security With PositiveID

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Ok, we are back once more to the implanted chip, which for a couple of reasons somewhat died on the vine, but now is making a comeback with new technology offerings. Again, this is very much a personal choice on to chip or not to chip. The only individual who has made any of his own experiences public is Dr. John Halamka, who was an early pioneer in trying the product. One thing you certainly have to give Dr. Halamka credit for and that is the fact that he is in no way a “Magpie”, he participates and gets out there hands on, or in this case “chips on” to see what new technology does and evaluate it’s value.

When the product first came out, it was a simple repository of your medical records, which requires a device to be able to view the information, this way it is secure. You can visit their website for additional information.

New technologies have boosted the capability of the chip now, so you can connect to your personal health records through the chip.
“Health Link is the connection between you and your personal health record. Health Link utilizes a tiny, passive microchip (the first and only microchip cleared for patient identification by the FDA) and a secure online database that links you to your personal health record.”

The new service is called PositiveID. The new system connects to a data base, in other words no medical information is stored on the chip as was done with the first design. There’s so many ways to be connected today. They can even link your credit information, I guess this could be important to see if you are going to be able to pay a bill if your are in the ER. It offers identify theft protection too. Again, all parties have to be granted access to the personal information.

You can view a slide show here

What is the future on health records, will this chip be part of it? Stay tuned I suppose on this one. BD

Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored. VeriChip of Delray Beach, Fl., has an even bolder idea: an implanted chip that links to an online database containing all your medical records, credit history and your social security ID.

Yes, it shows your Health Link chip linked to Google, Microsoft, employers and insurers. The company also sees the VeriMed Health Link linked to your “identity security services,” through a separate VeriChip product.

Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security | BNET Pharma Blog | BNET

VeriChip Closes Sale of Subsidiary - RFID

VeriChip Looking to Sell Part or All of the Business

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VeriChip Corporation Announces American Medical Association Recommends Implantable RFID Chips

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VeriChip Is Back if You Want to Have Your Medical Records Implanted in a Chip – Will Talk with HealthVault Too

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:34:00 GMT

The personal health record used with VeriMed Health Link system will be accessible through Microsoft® HealthVault. If you decide to take the plunge, well you can add your records to the HealthVault. I’ll stay with my normal HealthVault account for now.

Implantable VeriChip and Microsoft HealthVault PHR link information

Dr. Halamka at Harvard Medical is the only one I have read about who has the chip and he offers additional information at his blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO. I have to say when it comes to offering “first hand” information on technology, healthcare devices, HIE, Health IT, he’s at the top of the list, as chances are if he’s talking about it, he’s done it, thus offers some of the best information available. He was also one of the first 10 volunteers to participate in the Personal Human Genome project and you can read more here on that topic.

Personal Genome Project – Webisodes on How It All Came Together

Here’s a video from 2007 with Dr. Halamka, who has been chipped and talks about it. The downside of the chip is that the hospital needs to be equipped with the device that can read it and I don’t know how many have this device. When the chip first came out I heard a lot of mixed reactions and mine too was mixed and it appears now the move for online records with a PHR is strong, but who knows where we will be in a couple years from now. BD

VeriChip Corporation, a provider of RFID health care systems, announced that it is re-launching its VeriMed Health Link electronic health records (EHR) system. VeriChip hopes to capitalize on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which authorized $23 billion in stimulus funds for health care information technology, with an emphasis on the implementation and adoption of EHRs.

RFIDNews | VeriChip re-launches VeriMed electronic health records system

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