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FDA offers guide on wireless healthcare devices
By Joseph Conn | August 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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A new sensory system | Next generations of wireless monitoring technologies—some still years off—promise to transform healthcare
By Jaimy Lee | May 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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Final rule issued on wireless spectrum for MBANs
By Jaimy Lee | September 11, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Federal Communications Commission issued a final rule to allocate wireless spectrum for medical body area networks starting Oct. 1.
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'Body Area Networks' should free hospital bandwidth, untether patients
By Computerworld | June 05, 2012
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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Late News: FCC backs move allocating wireless spectrum for MBANs
By Modern Healthcare | May 26, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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FCC sets aside wireless spectrum for MBANs
By Jaimy Lee | May 24, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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Unplugged | FCC's approval of wireless spectrum for healthcare would unchain patients from hospital beds, transforming care
By Jaimy Lee | May 19, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
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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FCC to give healthcare a slice of wireless spectrum
By Joseph Conn | May 17, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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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