What are the benefits and risks of fitting patients with radiofrequency identification devices.

In 2004, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a radiofrequency identification (RFID) device that is implanted under the skin of the upper arm of patients and that stores the patient's medical identifier. When a scanner is passed over the device, the identifier is displayed on...

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Main Authors: Mark Levine, Ben Adida, Kenneth Mandl, Isaac Kohane, John Halamka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2082639?pdf=render