Final Project: Life Saving Medical Chip

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Final ProjectLife Saving Medical Chip

• NaTasha Cherry
• Shoneca Evans
• Alexis Brown

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Scenario 1

• After eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
  for lunch earlier that day, your
  boyfriend/girlfriend kisses you. You suddenly
  break out in hives and skin rashes and eventually
  went into shock you are rushed to the hospital ?

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Scenario 2

• Like in the movie, Day After Tomorrow, when the
  young lady cut her leg on an unknown object and
  later suffered from complications due to
  infection, she desperately needed an
  antibacterial cleanser, like penicillin. What if
  she had been allergic to penicillin?

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Our Solution

• A small chip containing relatively important
  medical information embedded under the skin on
  peoples writs. This chip is to be used in
  emergency situations to identify your allergies,
  a brief medical history, contact information, and
  other need-based information.

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Characteristics

• Relatively the size of a grain of rice
• Unnoticeable on the body
• Voluntary
• Read by a hand-held scanner
• Contact Information
• Brief medical history

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Whats On the Chip

• Name
• Emergency Contact person
• Previous surgical procedures
• Known allergies
• Conditions/diseases
• Blood types
• Medications
• Others

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Pros

• Emergency Situations
• Voluntary
• Information is optional
• Inconspicuous
• Form of Medical ID

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Cons

• Cost
• Too much information
• Developing new allergies
• Medical situations change
• Has to updated

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Software

• RFID Radio Frequency Identification
• They are intelligent barcodes that can talk to a
  network system to inform your medical problems.
  It keeps track of need to know medical
  information for emergencies.

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Cost

• Total cost will include
• The RFID
• The chip itself
• Cost to implant
• This roughly sums up to about anywhere from
  350-400

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How to Off Set the Cost

• Under certain circumstances, insurance companies
  will be required to cover some at risk people.

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Highly Recommended For

• Food and drug allergies
• Diseases such as epilepsy and Alzheimers
• Conditions such as anemia

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Previous Options

• Medical ID bracelets- Charm bracelets worn with
  engraved charms of different health issues.
  Possibilities include cancer, food and drug
  allergies, and Alzheimers disease.
• License- notifies if the person is an organ donor

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Link to Website

• www.unc.edu/cher