[A Balrog of Morgoth]

"Will the chips last that long?"

These are not implants. They are simply bracelets with a chip, so whether they last or they don't is completely irrelevent. The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing.

[endthematrix]

"This is much ado about nothing. "

It's about WND click-through rates.

[pepperhead]

Right, not implants and since that is the case this sounds like a good idea.

[300winmag]

The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing.

The hospital where I work uses the chips for maternity wards. The fear of mixup or abduction is very real, and liability is astronomical if something bad happens. There really are sickos out there who try to infiltrate maternity wards to swipe a kid.

In one case, there was a hospital-wide security alert when the system detected what looked like a baby leaving the unit, and heading towards the dumpsters. It turned out the mother did not report the baby's security anklet was loose, and just put it on her food tray, which was then taken away after lunch. The anklet was covered by something, so nobody noticed it until the system detected it leaving the premises.

While everybody had a laugh about it after things cooled down, it was taken as seriously as firefights outside the ER. We've had those, too.

This is a large Detroit hospital system, so just about any emergency that can be imagined has already happened at least once.

[KantianBurke]

"These are not implants. They are simply bracelets with a chip, so whether they last or they don't is completely irrelevent. The bracelets never even leave the maternity ward, much less the hospital. This is much ado about nothing."