FCC Seeks Comment (Again) on MBANs
The same vague promises of working out an industry standard after the fact were made when WMTS was created.
The same vague promises of working out an industry standard after the fact were made when WMTS was created.
If a medical device system runs on a network (physically separate or as a VLAN on your hospital enterprise network) the network is part of the medical device.
There are quite a few device manufacturers that offer wireless in their devices. However, there are really only a few vendors that have done wireless right.
Many companies are too focused on finishing a product, and missing things in regulatory and the “whole product solution” that will drive adoption.
Given the increasingly well known issues with Wi-Fi networks, I frequently get questions about alternatives.
There are 3 ways to leverage the iPhone at the point of care, each targeting different needs, productization strategies, and markets.
The largest cost area, in adding wireless connectivity, often is overlooked.
We need to solve this problem for today and into the future, rather than tailor the solution to a specific technology like 802.11.
Make no mistake, enterprise networking issues have killed patients by impacting the operation of medical device systems.
In fact, more connectivity problems are created than solved by many wireless medical devices.