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NewsWireless, mobile products in short supply at massive Medica show
The massive Radiological Society of North America is underway in Chicago now--without your Chicago-based editor, who's not back from Thanksgiving travels yet--but the 60,000 people who visit that Read more...
Hospital looking at 'TV white spaces' to go wireless
If a low-density community isn't already blanketed with fiber optics for high-speed Internet and other advanced telecommunications services, it might make sense to do what so many developing Read more...
Cisco exec: Home monitoring needs standards, financial incentives
We report elsewhere in today's newsletter that the Continua Health Alliance is creating a library of source code to connect wireless medical devices with smartphones. Such developments are welcome in Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: M-health innovation around the world
While laws and providers' own policies in the U.S. and Europe often hold back innovation in mobile health, some developing nations already have seen how m-health technologies can transform care. At Read more...
ZigBee Alliance ratifies wireless protocol for low-power medical devices
The ZigBee Alliance has ratified a new wireless protocol for healthcare and made the standard available to the general public. The protocol, called ZigBee Health Care, is an open standard for Read more...
Georgia Tech to develop RFID testing protocols for medical devices
RFID technology has taken off in healthcare in the last couple of years, but apparently there are no standard protocols to test for potential electromagnetic interference from RFID tags and Read more...
Report: Consumer wellness devices, apps to spur growth in mobile health
Consumer wellness products, including those that link medical devices to smartphones, will drive the global market for mobile healthcare, a new report says. "We foresee a development where health and Read more...
GE Healthcare seeks new class of wireless patient monitors
GE Healthcare is trying to cut the cords on patient monitors with a new effort to develop wireless monitoring systems called body sensor networks. Working in conjunction with parent company General Read more...
ANSI approves RFID standard in healthcare
The American National Standards Institute has given final approval to a healthcare-specific standard for RFID. The standard, developed by the Healthcare Industry Business Communications Council, is Read more...
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