December 22, 2007 
I am sure some people think of this as a crazy notion. Would this ever happen? What are the implications? What is the value?
People getting “chipped” seems scary to a lot of people. But, an intelligent chip that could collect body information – weight, blood pressure, etc – and feed it to a PHR (personal health record) seems pretty interesting to me. Even simply having a chip that could be read and used to identify you if you were unconscious or dead or unable to identify yourself seems valuable.
I have seen John Halamka talk briefly about his chip live, but I was glad to see that he has a whole entry about it on his blog “Life as a Healthcare CIO“. It is a good read of the pros and cons.
Enabling Healthy Decisions 
Agreed! I can’t wait to more ERs and Ambulabces are equipped with the scanners nationally.