{"id":1649,"date":"2005-08-07T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2005-08-07T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T00:01:07","slug":"tommy_thompson_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Thompson: &#8220;Stick a RFID Chip in Your Body&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rednova.com\/news\/health\/196561\/health_chips_could_help_patients_in_us\/\">RedNova News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>President Bush&#8217;s former health secretary Tommy Thompson is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip inserted under their skin, The Business has learned.<br \/>\nThe RFID capsules would be linked to a computerised database being created by the US Department of Health to store and manage the nation&#8217;s health records. It could be the precursor to a similar scheme in the UK.<br \/>\nThe president&#8217;s budget for 2006 continues to support the use of health information technology by increasing funding to $125m for pilot schemes.<br \/>\nThompson, now a director of Applied Digital Solutions, the company that makes the chips, intends to publish the proposal in the next 50 days, by which time he plans to have had a VeriChip inserted in his arm. Thompson believes the capsules could help save thousands of lives every year.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad Tommy is sticking it to himself first on this one.   I can see some benefits to this approach, BUT there&#8217;s a huge privacy downside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RedNova News: President Bush&#8217;s former health secretary Tommy Thompson is putting the final touches to a plan that could result in US citizens having a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip inserted under their skin, The Business has learned. The RFID capsules would be linked to a computerised database being created by the US Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}