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Digestible RFID Tag: an Alternative for Your Internal Body Monitoring

 

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Adi Tedjasaputra.
by Adi Tedjasaputra

Healthcare RFID applications have often triggered mixed reactions due to their strong links with ethical issues, particularly the plausible intrusive applications of the technology for people. One of such applications is the implantable RFID tags on human beings.

How about digestible RFID tags?

The potential of digestible RFID tags to obtain internal physiological information, such as reaction to medicine ingestion and absorption into body can be useful. Different from some methods, such as physical body probing, body imaging, biological sample collection and ingestible cameras, the use of digestible RFID tags is expected to accurately monitor a patient's ingestion and digestion of medicine, without the use of permanently embedded equipment or cost prohibitive RFID solutions.

Regarding the digestible RFID tags, Eastman Kodak Company has filed two patent applications for monitoring ingestion of medicine comprises forming a digestible RFID tag.

More info on the patent applications is available at:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF
&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1
&S1=20070008112&OS=20070008112&RS=20070008112

and

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1
&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01
&s1=20070008113&OS=20070008113&RS=20070008113


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