Can We Fix Wireless in Health Care?
Given the increasingly well known issues with Wi-Fi networks, I frequently get questions about alternatives.
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An Assessment of WMTS
So the new WMTS solved all our wireless medical device problems, right?
Read MoreDistributed Antenna Systems - No Replacement for Wireless Strategy
I received the following blog post from Stephen Olsen, Principal at Integra Systems. Steve has spent more than 20 years in the wireless industry in engineering, sales and business development. Steve's wireless experience extends...
Read MoreAAMI 2007 - Final Thoughts
I was in hog heaven at this year's AAMI meeting. Connectivity was a major theme, and during every time slot in the program there was at least one presentation dealing with connectivity. During my presentation Monday afternoon,...
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Monitoring Currently Unmonitored Patients
I came across some interesting posts in the Biomed Listserv. A biomed from a 250 bed hospital is...
Read MoreThe State of Central Station Patient Monitoring - Market Drivers
Last week Frost & Sullivan announced that they're kicking off an "exciting new study" on the state of centralized patient monitoring in the U.S. They're going to go department by department to analyze centralized...
Read MoreWireless Patient Monitors, WMTS or ISM?
The FCC and FDA designated two portions of spectrum for wireless telemetry, WMTS (wireless medical telemetry service) and ISM (the Industrial, Scientific and Medical band). Since the inception of WMTS in June of 2000, and the...
Read MorePhilips Telemetry to Use New Hospital WLAN Technology
According to an updated page on their website, Philips has abandoned their "channelized" radios for a frequency hopping, bi-directional, spread-spectrum WLAN in the WMTS band. They've joined GE and Datascope with similar WLAN...
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