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Medical supply firm to sell patient RFID chips

By Alorie Gilbert CNET News

Medical-supply company Henry Schein has agreed to distribute
implantable radio frequency identification chips to doctors' offices
across the country -- the first major sales push for the technology
since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it for medical
use last month.

The rice grain-size devices, called VeriChips, enable doctors and
other medical staff to instantly retrieve patients' medical records by
scanning chips injected into the fatty tissue in their arms -- much like
a clerk scanning a can of peas at the grocery store. The distribution
deal, announced Wednesday, is a big one for VeriChip maker Applied
Digital. Henry Schein, based in Melville, N.Y., sells medical supplies
to nearly 115,000 private medical practices in the United States and
booked $3.4 billion in sales last year.

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