Implantable medical information
Ok so i was talking to a GP and we talked about microchips and how they could be used in the health service. One thing that came up is that paramedic crews don't know what medication/illnesses people have. however if we heavily advised and fully subsidized having a 8 kb microchip implanted in the same place in everybody and then trained paramedics to read the chips immediately every time then we could solve this problem.
an 8kb microchip can hold 2,000 characters. if we set it up so that the first character denoted your class out of 36 possibilities, this would be denoted by the numbers 0-9 and letters a-z. that would tell the software what the next set of characters mean. say if you where a type (1), this would denote you are ordinary with nothing exceptionally wrong (like diabetes or do not resuscitate), so question 1 would be are you on any blood thinners? there are two possible answers to this (a or b) denoting which one you are on the next character denotes your dosage on a scale of 1-36 (0) being minimal (z) being exceptionally high. so then you would have as many questions as needed in your class (only the answer need be in the chip as they will all follow the same standard).
Why have previous attempts at this failed
they haven't been implantable chips and they haven't been funded by the NHS therefore the paramedics don't scan.
Why generally
in the UK all of the NHS services use different clinical systems, this means that paramedics don't know what medicines people are on and what medicines they are allergic to. For instance if they are called to someone with sepsis they give them penicillin but they wouldn't if they could have scanned the microchip and know they where allergic to it they would have given them another medicine with similar effects.
an 8kb microchip can hold 2,000 characters. if we set it up so that the first character denoted your class out of 36 possibilities, this would be denoted by the numbers 0-9 and letters a-z. that would tell the software what the next set of characters mean. say if you where a type (1), this would denote you are ordinary with nothing exceptionally wrong (like diabetes or do not resuscitate), so question 1 would be are you on any blood thinners? there are two possible answers to this (a or b) denoting which one you are on the next character denotes your dosage on a scale of 1-36 (0) being minimal (z) being exceptionally high. so then you would have as many questions as needed in your class (only the answer need be in the chip as they will all follow the same standard).
Why have previous attempts at this failed
they haven't been implantable chips and they haven't been funded by the NHS therefore the paramedics don't scan.
Why generally
in the UK all of the NHS services use different clinical systems, this means that paramedics don't know what medicines people are on and what medicines they are allergic to. For instance if they are called to someone with sepsis they give them penicillin but they wouldn't if they could have scanned the microchip and know they where allergic to it they would have given them another medicine with similar effects.
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I can think of problems with having too much information available to anyone with the right scanner though.
If you are working in areas where the server can't be reached, then you need to store the relevant history for first aid like allergies and current prescriptions.
It might also be handy ::snicker:: if a doctor could write patient prescriptions on the tag so they could be filled at the pharmacy where the patient would be scanned again. That way scripts couldn't be passed off as easily.
Heck, it would even fix the problem of "GP A did not know patient is already on benzos because can't access their records and patient has no idea".