Integrated Circuits Understanding radio protocols and requirements is the first step in successfully using wireless communication in medical applications. Carl Falcon Table I. Wireless system ...

As wireless medical devices move from the test bench to the hospital bed, product designers have turned their attention to solving the challenge of powering these technologies as well as reducing ...

Wireless connectivity could contribute to the trend of reduced healthcare costs and improved patient care, according to a Design News report. Despite the notion that medical devices is one of the root ...

With an aging population across much of the globe that is increasing the volume of patients in hospitals and pushing current systems beyond their limits, hospital administrators are being asked to do ...

Wireless technology has long been a part of medical devices. The recent introduction of more sophisticated wireless phones and the deployment of wireless broadband networks has sparked the development ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The telecommunications regulator on Thursday announced plans to set aside a chunk of spectrum for connecting wireless medical devices to allow for more convenient and ...

The Federal Communications Commission is poised to open two segments of the wireless spectrum for medical patient monitoring, chairman Julius Genachowski said in a press conference in Washington, D.C.

The healthcare industry is in the middle of a technology revolution, and at the same time, rising health care costs and an aging population are straining the world’s health care infrastructure. To ...

Has Bluetooth already won the race to wirelessly connect medical devices? Currently, Bluetooth's Health Device Profile is the only wireless technology specification that the interoperability group ...

A new study from a research team at the Center for Wireless Communications Network and Systems (CWC-NS) at the University of Oulu has introduced an approach using near-infrared (NIR) light beyond ...

With the healthcare environment around the world looking both increasingly valuable and increasingly tenuous as an aging global populace looks for healthcare answers, the need to save costs in the ...

Can you be killed by code? Karen Sandler of the Gnome Foundation believes so. Software has plenty of holes, why should software behind a pacemaker be any different? Sandler has an implanted medical ...