Harvard CIO Gets Chipped
posted by:Michelle Gordon // 10:05 AM // February 02, 2005 // Surveillance and social sorting
Dr. John Halamka, the Chief Information Officer for Harvard Medical School, recently had himself implanted with a subdermal VeriChip so that he could begin an "earnest assessment" of this controversial new product. He is currently one of 40 U.S. volunteers who are testing this device. While Dr. Halamka's chip can only be read at one location, this could very soon change.
Is this the next new trend, or could this be the end of medical privacy?
See: UsingRFID.com,
CNET News.com, MobileHealthData
