Ethical Implications of Placing Implantable Chips in Patients

The goal of this paper is to investigate the application of technology to reduce error in healthcare. The Institute of Medicine reports: to Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 1999, which estimates of more than a million injuries and 100,000 deaths attributable to medical errors annually. This numbers of deaths are errors that resulted from medical errors..

Keeping patients safe is essential in today’s health care system, but patient safety events that violate that safety are increasing each year. It was only recently, that the focus on patient safety was reinforced by a report prepared by Institute of medicine (IOM) entitled ” To err is human, building a safer health system”(Wakefield & Iliffe,2002).This report found that approx-imately 44,000 to 98,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors and that the majority was preventable. Deaths due to medical errors exceed deaths due to many other causes such as like HIV infections, breast cancer and even traffic accidents (Wakefield & Iliffe, 2002). After this IOM reports, President Clinton established quality interagency

Each year medical errors cause more than 400,000 American deaths and at least 10-20 times that number experience serious harm. Researchers say that is equivalent to “three 747 airplanes crashing each day.” Medical errors rank as the third-leading cause of death in America. Therefore, patient safety is a national concern.

Microchipping people isrecognized as one of the most popular evolutional technologies that could change people 's life style and standard. Human implanting has the potential ability of saving life when emergency; it is capable of improving efficiency at work and life quality of life. Also it can bring evolutional change to the security system forever. With that mass of expectation, microchipping people also brings people equivalent large amount of concerning, people are worried about the consequence of implanting things that are unnatural, radioactive or privacy-threaten into their bodies and unlikely to be taken out undamaging to body. In this report, advantages and disadvantages of the technology will be shown with discussion of engineers responsibility regards on real life cases.

Medical technology encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to diagnose, monitor, and treat diseases or medical conditions that affect humans. This may included but not limited too, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. Such technologies are intended to improve the quality of healthcare delivered through earlier diagnosis, less invasive treatment options and reductions in hospital stays and rehabilitation times. Recent advances in medical technology have also focused on cost reduction. Medical technology may include medical devices, information technology, biotech, and healthcare services. The impacts of medical technology may involve social and ethical issues. For example physicians may seek objective information from technology rather than listening to subjective patient reports. A major contributor of healthcare expenditure in America is the advancement of medical technology. According to several studies it is shown that there is a correlation between the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) and money allocated to healthcare. One of the leading theories is that medical technology is growing faster than expected.

If I were to agree to implant chips into people they would be good reasons to do it.One of my main reasons would be to have society move faster when it comes to shopping.Who likes to wait in the line for a while?none so that would give them a reason to have a chip inserted into their hand.It will be a quick scan and there your set when it comes to paying.A chip can have you set within less than five minutes in line.

Patient safety is of utmost importance in healthcare. As healthcare providers we are all human, and therefore we all error, having a system that will double check our actions for said errors would be of great value. Technology in healthcare is developed with the intent to combat exactly that. The role of technology continues beyond the detection of human error and plays an overall significant part in keeping and maintaining patients’ safety.

Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, and Justice are four bioethical principles in health care. It seems that all new technologies and devices which are used in different health care fields have been trying to respect these principles. However, sometimes using new technologies in health care could have negative impacts for patients, such as leaking their health information and being accessible to unauthorized persons, but in my opinion, most new technologies are helping health care professionals and patients for better care outcome. One of these technologies is sensors and wearable technology which helps patients to collect their health data and transfer them to the providers. Then, those data are used by health care providers to see if

While this new era of healthcare has its benefits, it also comes with its own set of unique challenges. The security of the very devices that were created to help doctors and patients are giving hackers the opportunity to steal sensitive health and financial information.

There are 440,000 people a year that die from a preventable variety of mistakes that are made in hospitals, which comes out to a little over 1,000 deaths a day, and is the number three cause of death behind cancer, and heart disease (hospitalsafetyscore). According to a group that rates hospitals named The Leapfrog Group a nonprofit watchdog group that grades hospitals for safety, (leapfrog) a majority of these deaths are very avoidable and are most of the time simple mistakes. Errors in Hospitals are a broad issue that gets hundreds of thousands of people killed every year; for the most part, they are preventable and are caused by overtesting, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, non-reporting, and lack of oversight, though there are ways to prevent

Legal The idea of a person wearing an HER has a number of legal implications. If the patient had complete control over who viewed the material (as they would if they hand carried their information, then the subject of privacy might change. However, if the patient was in an accident and unable to give consent for the sharing of information, they would either need to do this beforehand and in general, or the medical facility would require a way to authorize data in a life or death situation. There are also several legal ideas one must ask about first: is the chip read only (as in only taking info); or read-write (giving and taking info); or, would the chip have a tracking device built in? In common law, much like with assisted suicide, etc. the issue becomes one of individual rights to privacy versus the utility of the implant. The First,

An ethical and religious standpoint of mine is an interest when and if, the implantation of the human microchip will take place. “And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name” (Revelations 13:16-17). While researching I found two different articles on this topic listed below.

There might be some potential issues that may arise during the implementation. Using RFID tags and readers widely requires installing hundreds of WLAN access points in order to pick up the signals from the bar-coded products. As a result, this could cause electromagnetic interference with other medical devices, which may affect the outcomes. Also, the competitors in producing and purchasing drugs may gain unauthorized access to customer preferences and use the data in competitive marketing scenarios. Additionally, the tags might be disappeared and lost from the products when the patient accidentally knocked the tagged objects to the floor. When the customer purchase the drug, his identity regarding with the provided prescription is linked with the , and this electronic serial number of the product. This can be accessed thorough unauthorized users that may use the customer’s private information in bad things.

new advancements such as microchip implant for humans and animals can be very controversial. At first, the implants may seem to have benefits but in the long run they will actually cause more trouble than they are worth. These potential "troublemakers" are about the size of an elongated grain of rice and are injected in the skin under the arm or hand (Feder, Zeller 15). The chip is not powered by battery and there is nothing that can possibly leak out into the body (Posada-Swafford 8). An early form of this technology was used to monitor salmon and has been used for other wildlife research (Verhovek 5). The idea of the chips was started from the September 11 tragedy

The technological advancement in the world is always interconnected between different areas of technology. For example, the technological advancement in the field of telecommunications, computer system architecture and also software developments have vastly contributed to the growth and advancement of health technologies that exists in the present day. For example, the invention of computers, smaller memory disks that can store large amount of information and sophisticated software systems that can analyse data in a short amount of time have lead the health technology to its prime advancement which is the paperless patient records and also known as the health care informatics. This provides access at private patient files containing any data