It is RFID, what do you think. One of these days you are going to have to get your stuff together and use your head.
This is an indication of the marketplace that is building out there. Years ago the Muslim nations tried to put together a RFID card using FRAM and failed. This was when Ramtron was an Australian company so you would not have read about it. It was just not the right time nor had the product matured enough. Now with IBM rushing to build an RFID product for RMTR your guess is as good as mine. You should realize, after all this time and the type of rather superficial questions you ask. What is most important to me is the market place. The market place must expand in new directions to encourage me to increase my holdings of RAMTRON. The company has been a one trick pony for years with the meter business, and with the amplification of varying densities other markets have opened. I spent several years in market research and I realize that may be peculiar to you.
I have stopped placing copies of the ads in foreign markets
as in the past they seem to confuse you and indicate how shallow your viewpoint has remained.
From the news release:
Under the Seneca’s agreement with Homeland Security, the nation will develop its own ETCs that will also be accepted at entry ports. The cards will be similar to enhanced driver’s licenses and new passports containing embedded computer chips that can be swiped through readers like credit cards.
I had a drivers license several years ago that had a computer chip and was part of a test in Ventura County, CA. It contained my whole drivers record. The heart of the card was a FRAM chip. Ramtron did not even know it was being used. In addition the county had equipted public transportation buses with a switch which allowed bus drivers to change traffic lights as a means of enhancing fuel mileage.
I will repeat, I bought Ramtron for the reason of how FRAM would benefit medicine. That was many years ago. It is just now being used in the medical marketplace. The closer we get
to the transformation of health care costs and billing, the closer we will get to each of us carrying a card with all of each of our health records in our pocket. That has only become possible in recent years. Hospitals are just now changing to an e-records, but they have yet to embrace the patient card, which would round out the process. The ability to conserve costs and reduce errors in medicine is being used in only a small percentage of hospitals. The VA system is electronic and I can go into any VA hospital or doctor and they
have an instant record of my health history. No need to fill out additional forms, no need for duplication. Were I have noticed it personally is the use of patients and clinical trials. I have been part of one for the last two years. It concerns the use of OMega fish oil. I take six a day and my usage of statins has been reduced to the point of only taking a pediatric dosage. Thru the usage of the electronic medical records, care givers have been able to focus on the use of fish
oil in coronary artery disease. There was a trial to see if fish oil would work against cancer. It did not, however those taking the fish oil found levels of cholesterol and triglycerides dropped dramatically with increased doses of fish oil and thus saving dollars spent on more costly medicines.
Now does this all have an effect on Ramtron? If they are smart yes, if management has a focus similar to yours they will fail in the long run!
Jim |
