By Jim Edwards | Bnet | April 26, 2010
A completely false claim that Australia’s healthcare reform package will eventually require every Aussie to have a health-records microchip implanted under their skin is making the rounds of conspiracy-theory Websites. The claim is based on an innocent coincidence?: Both prime minister Kevin Rudd’s “e-Health” initiative and PositiveID (PSID)’s VeriChip implantable device are based on an identity number with 16 digits.
The coincidence, and the rumors it has bred, demonstrate for managers that even the most mundane of details can take on an unintentionally dark meaning on the Web. Product managers who need customers to use an ID number might want to avoid creating systems with 16 digits, as the “16-digit” concept plays a key part in conspiracy theories about microchip implants, America’s forthcoming slide into tyranny, and the coming of the Beast as foretold in the Book of Revelation.
You can read some of the fearmongering about the imminent chipping of every Bruce and Sheila here (click). It says:
From July 1st every single Australian will be branded with a unique, 16 digit identification number courtesy of Medicare Australia in accordance with Kevin Rudd’s new e-health revolution.
… There is indeed a surreptitious plan to set up the ground work for this system to progress seamlessly to implantable RFID microchips. All that would be required is a simple distribution of the PositiveID microchip and the necessary RFID scanners into the medical infrastructure the software side would already be functioning at full steam.
Rudd’s reform package will promote electronic health records through the use of a 16-digit number that will identify each patient. The system will eventually do away with the need for doctors to ship paper files around the country whenever a new patient walks in the door, potentially saving millions in costs. The reform itself is actually quite boring and commonsensical, from a records management point of view. (If you read Australia’s media — here and here and here — you’ll see that Rudd’s secret plan to microchip everyone on his continent has somehow not generated any headlines, largely because it doesn’t exist.)
Unfortunately, PositiveID’s critics are better at getting their message out than the company itself, and there are already dozens of chat forums and bulletin boards out there filled with messages from people who believe that the good people of Australia are being used as CEO Scott Silverman’s guinea pigs for the world government takeover.
Contradictory article by the same author later on May 13, 2010:
Inside the Australian Government’s Scary Web Site on Microchip ID ImplantsLatest Development:
If the Australian government really doesn’t want to implant its citizens with PositiveID (PSID) microchips, it sure isn’t helping itself with its Web page dedicated to a “literature review” of different patient identification technologies, including VeriChip, “palm vein scanning,” radio frequency identification, and other dystopian sci-fi ideas.
While the New South Wales Department of Health Web page is ostensibly a reference point for officials who want to reduce medical errors caused by patient mixups, it looks pretty scary if you’re someone who thinks that society is heading toward a Minority Report-style dictatorship in which everyone carries a compulsory microchip implant. And there are lots of those people.
Managers ought to be aware that transparency has a flip side: The same information can look mighty different when viewed by unintended audiences.
Australia is in the middle of a healthcare reform, and a central plank of those changes is the introduction of a “personally controlled electronic health record system,” or e-Health scheme, that gives each Australian a 16-digit ID number. By unfortunate coincidence, PositiveID’s VeriChip device also relies on a 16-digit system, and its Health Link medical records product sounds exactly like the online database Australia is creating.
So, paranoid Americans who believe President Obama wants to introduce a socialist World Government that controls its subjects via RFID chips just caught a lucky break: Australia is giving us all a sneak preview.
Related:
Inside the Australian Government’s Scary Web Site on Microchip ID Implants reported on May 13, 2010
How the FDA’s New Plan for Wireless Medical Implants Will Delight and Horrify the Conspiracy Theorists reported on July 27, 2010
Human or Cow, PositiveID Has an Implantable Microchip for You reported September 17, 2010 and VeriChip new partner Siemen
In Australia -
Healthcare identifier legislation passes reported on June 25, 2010
Timetable confirms 2012 e-health date reported on July 8, 2010
Labor announces first e-health record sites reported on August 17, 2010
Suspended e-health plans now on track reported on September 13, 2010
Medicare launches online health directory reported on December 9, 2010
Govt wants firm to grade e-health roll-out reported on December 17, 2010
Literature Review - NSW Government | Health
Australia will be the first VeriChip GUINEA PIG for the One World Government?
Further reading: http://www.barrysmith.org.nz/site/books/final_notice/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Smith_(New_Zealand)
http://www.omegatimes.com/
The coincidence, and the rumors it has bred, demonstrate for managers that even the most mundane of details can take on an unintentionally dark meaning on the Web. Product managers who need customers to use an ID number might want to avoid creating systems with 16 digits, as the “16-digit” concept plays a key part in conspiracy theories about microchip implants, America’s forthcoming slide into tyranny, and the coming of the Beast as foretold in the Book of Revelation.
You can read some of the fearmongering about the imminent chipping of every Bruce and Sheila here (click). It says:
From July 1st every single Australian will be branded with a unique, 16 digit identification number courtesy of Medicare Australia in accordance with Kevin Rudd’s new e-health revolution.
… There is indeed a surreptitious plan to set up the ground work for this system to progress seamlessly to implantable RFID microchips. All that would be required is a simple distribution of the PositiveID microchip and the necessary RFID scanners into the medical infrastructure the software side would already be functioning at full steam.
Rudd’s reform package will promote electronic health records through the use of a 16-digit number that will identify each patient. The system will eventually do away with the need for doctors to ship paper files around the country whenever a new patient walks in the door, potentially saving millions in costs. The reform itself is actually quite boring and commonsensical, from a records management point of view. (If you read Australia’s media — here and here and here — you’ll see that Rudd’s secret plan to microchip everyone on his continent has somehow not generated any headlines, largely because it doesn’t exist.)
Unfortunately, PositiveID’s critics are better at getting their message out than the company itself, and there are already dozens of chat forums and bulletin boards out there filled with messages from people who believe that the good people of Australia are being used as CEO Scott Silverman’s guinea pigs for the world government takeover.
Contradictory article by the same author later on May 13, 2010:
Inside the Australian Government’s Scary Web Site on Microchip ID ImplantsLatest Development:
If the Australian government really doesn’t want to implant its citizens with PositiveID (PSID) microchips, it sure isn’t helping itself with its Web page dedicated to a “literature review” of different patient identification technologies, including VeriChip, “palm vein scanning,” radio frequency identification, and other dystopian sci-fi ideas.
While the New South Wales Department of Health Web page is ostensibly a reference point for officials who want to reduce medical errors caused by patient mixups, it looks pretty scary if you’re someone who thinks that society is heading toward a Minority Report-style dictatorship in which everyone carries a compulsory microchip implant. And there are lots of those people.
Managers ought to be aware that transparency has a flip side: The same information can look mighty different when viewed by unintended audiences.
Australia is in the middle of a healthcare reform, and a central plank of those changes is the introduction of a “personally controlled electronic health record system,” or e-Health scheme, that gives each Australian a 16-digit ID number. By unfortunate coincidence, PositiveID’s VeriChip device also relies on a 16-digit system, and its Health Link medical records product sounds exactly like the online database Australia is creating.
So, paranoid Americans who believe President Obama wants to introduce a socialist World Government that controls its subjects via RFID chips just caught a lucky break: Australia is giving us all a sneak preview.
Related:
Inside the Australian Government’s Scary Web Site on Microchip ID Implants reported on May 13, 2010
How the FDA’s New Plan for Wireless Medical Implants Will Delight and Horrify the Conspiracy Theorists reported on July 27, 2010
Human or Cow, PositiveID Has an Implantable Microchip for You reported September 17, 2010 and VeriChip new partner Siemen
In Australia -
Healthcare identifier legislation passes reported on June 25, 2010
Timetable confirms 2012 e-health date reported on July 8, 2010
Labor announces first e-health record sites reported on August 17, 2010
Suspended e-health plans now on track reported on September 13, 2010
Medicare launches online health directory reported on December 9, 2010
Govt wants firm to grade e-health roll-out reported on December 17, 2010
Literature Review - NSW Government | Health
Australia will be the first VeriChip GUINEA PIG for the One World Government?
Further reading: http://www.barrysmith.org.nz/site/books/final_notice/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Smith_(New_Zealand)
http://www.omegatimes.com/
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