CIO Gets Himself Injected With An RFID Chip
Evan SchumanAs an emergency medicine physician, Dr. John D. Halamka immediately saw the life-saving potential of people being embedded with tiny wireless RFID identification devices. As the CIO of the Harvard Medical School, he was naturally skeptical of the device and wanted to test it thoroughly before recommending its adoption.
As a physician CIO, he knew that there would be risks inserting any foreign object into a human being and that the body—and the extreme environments bodies can be—might interfere with the device’s functioning and that the device could interfere with the body’s functioning.
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