Mobile Body Area Network (MBAN) news and information

The Food and Drug Administration has published a guide to the use of wireless healthcare devices in healthcare settings.For providers, one key issue covered is data security, including a recommendation that encryption technologies on the devices, if available, should be activated and used.
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It might be hard to grasp how large and transformative the market for so-called medical body area networks could be in the years ahead.
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The Federal Communications Commission issued a final rule to allocate wireless spectrum for medical body area networks starting Oct. 1.
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With the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) approval of a radio spectrum dedicated to wireless medical monitoring devices, hospitals will get some much-needed network bandwidth, patients will become untethered and device manufacturers can reduce their costs by standardizing.
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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to allocate wireless spectrum for medical body area networks, a new type of wireless medical device that would reduce the number of wires tethering a patient to a hospital bed and increase the role of patient monitoring at home.
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The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to allocate wireless spectrum for medical body area networks, a new type of wireless medical device that would reduce the number of wires tethering a patient to a hospital bed and increase the role of patient monitoring at home.
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The FCC is on the cusp of unleashing technology that could release patients from the constellations of machines that monitor them in the hospital and revolutionize the level of home monitoring.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said the U.S. will become the first country in the world to dedicate a portion of the wireless communications spectrum to Medical Body Area Networks for use by medical providers for wireless medical monitoring devices.
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