New from Microsoft! Get chipped for "instant access" to your health records!

[Hannah Bell]

VeriChip Corporation Selected by Microsoft to Offer Personal Health Record through Microsoft HealthVault

VeriChip Corporation (the "Company") (NASDAQ: CHIP), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, today announced that its personal health record used in conjunction with its VeriMed Health Link system will be accessible through Microsoft® HealthVault", an online platform designed to put consumers in control of their health information.

Through this agreement, Health Link members will have the ability to open free HealthVault accounts and input, store, view and interact with their health data. Further, the data within Health Link members" existing accounts will be directly accessible through their HealthVault accounts.

Scott R. Silverman, Chairman of the Company, said, "VeriChip"s strategic alliance with Microsoft provides additional benefits to our members by enabling them to seamlessly store all of their personal health records on HealthVault"s robust, security-enhanced website. Furthermore, as an approved HeathVault solution provider, this agreement gives us added visibility among HealthVault"s member base. For those who have chosen our tamper-proof, safe, 'always on' link to their personal health information, we believe this relationship with Microsoft is a logical expansion of our service."

About VeriChip Corporation

VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, markets its VeriMed" Health Link System for rapidly and accurately identifying people who arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the first human-implantable passive RFID microchip, cleared for medical use in October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

For more information on VeriChip, please call 1-800-970-2447...


http://www.pr-inside.com/verichip-corporation-selected-by-microsoft-r920214.htm

[Hannah Bell]

1. hot stock tip! veri-chip (CHIP) up 158% on the news!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=chip

[DJ13]

2. .......

[PM Martin]

5. True.

[FreeState]

12. Yep and that really means nothing unless your superstitious n/t

[Connonym]

3. I'll keep my privacy and risk dying

I don't for one second believe that this information will remain confidential. There's too much stuff that could be in a medical report that could be used against you and trust me, I've worked with medical reports for more than 10 years, they are NOT as accurate as you would like to believe.

[Hannah Bell]

4. i think if you go to a doc or hospital, chipped or not, your info is no longer private.

most medicos are computerized: bills, records, etc.

chipping just has - side benefits - for folks like msft.

[silverojo]

6. Agreed. My mom worked in medical records for 30 years

And I've seen my own medical records, and the inaccuracies are alarming.

[Hannah Bell]

7. kick.

[Greyhound]

8. "I'm sorry Mrs. Brown, you've contracted the blue virus of death and the only treatment is

to kill you and then, hopefully, resuscitate you"

"No, I'm very sorry but the three fingered salute is ineffective in these cases"

[DireStrike]

9. Oh boy! I'm sure it doesn't cause any healh problems of its own, either!

[OhioChick]

10. True. n/t

[Neshanic]

11. "He's late for work, he had to be rebooted".