Posted on Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
If a proposal to allocate radio spectrum for a wireless medical network is approved, many patients may no longer need to travel to a health care facility to be tethered to large machines that monitor their health.
Instead, they would be linked to monitoring systems by small, disposable wireless devices, cutting costs and reducing the risk of infection and clinical errors.
As part of its first national broadband plan unveiled earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission proposed allocating spectrum for new medical body area networks (MBAN).
