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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wireless devices often interfere with each other. A automated test tool helps engineers find issues faster and make devices ...

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.

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 ...

CHICAGO — Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis machines, researchers ...

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 ...