{"id":902,"date":"2007-02-14T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=902"},"modified":"2007-02-14T00:58:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T17:58:43","slug":"patients-doctors-staying-away-from-implantable-rfid-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/patients-doctors-staying-away-from-implantable-rfid-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients, doctors staying away from implantable RFID chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VeriChip, which has created a system for putting RFID chips into humans for medical-record tracking, held an initial public offering on Friday, and the company&#8217;s stock has been struggling ever since. The stock is currently trading at around $6.15. The company released 3.1 million shares in the IPO for $6.50 a share.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is likely the lackluster sales for the company&#8217;s most famous product.<\/p>\n<p>Only 222 medical patients in total have opted to get <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Human+chips+more+than+skin-deep\/2009-1008_3-5318076.html\" title=\"Human chips more than skin-deep -- Monday, Aug 23, 2004\">RFID chips from VeriChip implanted<\/a> as of the end of 2006, according to documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of its initial public offering.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Patients%2C+doctors+staying+away+from+implantable+RFID+chips\/2100-11746_3-6158701.html?tag=alert\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VeriChip, which has created a system for putting RFID chips into humans for medical-record tracking, held an initial public offering on Friday, and the company&#8217;s stock has been struggling ever since. The stock is currently trading at around $6.15. The company released 3.1 million shares in the IPO for $6.50 a share. Part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}