BAN
Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“Mark my words – the day is not far off when physicians will be prescribing patients Smartphone apps and wearable sensor devices just as routinely as they prescribe pharmaceuticals, physical therapy and other treatment options today.
Ambulatory patient monitoring is one example of a clinical diagnostic technology that is on the verge of achieving full mobilization via consumer Smartphone devices and wearable sensors.
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12 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, BAN, Devices, Digital Homecare, mHealth, Wireless
Brian Dunham, CMIO
“Body Area Networks (BANs) are increasingly used for a wide variety of applications, from the healthcare technology field, to use by rescue personnel, the military and NASA. In the medical field, BANs can be utilized for physiological health monitoring—such as primary vital signs, heart rate, respiration, as well as internal and external body temperatures—and the future potential of the technology is promising.
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22 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Monitoring, Wireless
Isaac Leung, Electronics News
“Medical electronics smacks of the future but is not a new discipline. Electronic devices have been supporting the frail human body for over five decades since the first artificial cardiac pacemaker was implanted in 1958. But, since the turn of the century, medical technology has accelerated dramatically.
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14 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Chip, Implants
Khan JY et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
In recent years interest in the application of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) for patient monitoring applications has grown significantly. A WBAN can be used to develop patient monitoring systems which offer flexibility to medical staff and mobility to patients. Patients monitoring could involve a range of activities including data collection from various body sensors for storage and diagnosis, transmitting data to remote medical databases, and controlling medical appliances, etc. Also, WBANs could operate in an interconnected mode to enable remote patient monitoring using telehealth/e-health applications.
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20 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): BAN, Monitoring, Patient, Simulation, Telemedicine, Wireless
Duncan Graham-Rowe, NewScientist
“For cardiac patients such as myself, too much excitement can be a shocking experience. If my heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in my chest can think I’m having a heart attack and give me a friendly remedial shock. But such nasty surprises could soon become less of a concern for people like me – by giving our hearts their very own IP addresses.
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8 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): BAN, Cellphone
Julien Happich, EE Times Europe
“Body Area Networks (BAN) are an essential component of mHealth. BANs are miniaturized sensor networks; consisting of lightweight, ultra low-power, wireless sensor nodes which continuously monitor physical and vital parameters.
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6 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): BAN, Industry, mHealth, Monitoring
Yuce MR. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2010
This work describes the implementation of a complete Wireless Body-Area Network (WBAN) system to deploy in medical environments. Issues related to hardware implementations, software and wireless protocol designs are addressed. In addition to reviewing and discussing the current attempts in wireless body area network technology, a WBAN system that has been designed for healthcare applications will be presented in detail herein. The wireless system in the WBAN uses medical bands to obtain physiological data from sensor nodes.
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14 June 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): BAN, Monitoring, Sensors, Wireless
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld
“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.
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31 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Devices, mHealth, Monitoring, Sensors, Wireless
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Medical device makers are seeking their own frequency band for body monitors from the FCC.
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31 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Devices, Industry, Wi-fi
Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“After far too long in development, Body Area Networks are moving toward the market.
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25 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Sensors, Wi-fi
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While President Obama Tuesday signed the healthcare reform bill into law, other segments of the federal government are in the midst of decision-making that could also influence a proliferation of new healthcare services.
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23 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Monitoring, Wireless
Al Ameen, Moshaddique et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2010
The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in healthcare applications is growing in a fast pace. Numerous applications such as heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor and endoscopic capsule are already in use. To address the growing use of sensor technology in this area, a new field known as wireless body area networks (WBAN or simply BAN) has emerged. As most devices and their applications are wireless in nature, security and privacy concerns are among major areas of concern.
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14 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): BAN, Networks, Privacy, Security, Sensors, Wireless
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“The Sensium Life Pebble, a new wireless vital signs monitor, is being made available to the European Union and all other countries that have adopted the CE standard for certified medical devices.
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10 November 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): BAN, Industry, Monitoring, Sensors, Wireless
Peter Kruger, theMobileHealthCrowd
“Toumaz Technology has announced that the Sensium Life Pebble has been awarded a CE mark and is now available in the EU and all other countries that have adopted the CE standard for certified medical devices.
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27 October 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): BAN, Devices, Industry, Monitoring
Raquel Leoncio, Zikkir
“When computers, servers and digital storage devices began to find their way en masse into businesses and homes in the late 1970s and early 80s, industrious users figured out these systems could be linked together into local area networks (LANs) that enabled the rapid exchange of information from machine to machine.
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24 September 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, mHealth, Sensors
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, CNet News
“GE Healthcare is developing a Body Sensor Network (BSN) that consists of sensor devices that collect patient-specific data, from body temperature and pulse-oximetry to blood glucose levels and respiratory function. The real-time information will be transmitted to doctors, nurses, caregivers, etc., to enable far more efficient body monitoring from any location, which in turn provides the most current patient information and treatment option evaluations.”
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3 September 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Industry, Sensors, Wireless
Ron Otten, Mobile Wellbeing
“Sensoring your body while doing everything you are used to do. Is this possible? Comfortable smart clothes that monitor the wearer’s heart, breathing and body temperature promise to revolutionise healthcare by allowing patients to lead there normal lives.
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9 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Greece | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): BAN, mHealth, Monitoring, Sensors, Wearable
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed to allocate radiofrequency spectrum and establish service and technical rules for the operation of Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) systems. The FCC envisions that MBANs would provide a platform for the wireless networking of multiple body sensors used for monitoring a patient’s physiological data, primarily in health care facilities.
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6 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, medical technology, mHealth, Sensors, Wireless
Carolyn Bloch, Federal Telemedicine News
“Newly developed non-invasive sensors, coupled with body area networks via smart phones or gateway receivers to transmit data over the internet, have the potential to transform medicine according to Eric Topol M.D.
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28 June 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Monitoring, Remote, Sensors, Telemedicine, Wireless
Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Here’s a new acronym in a field filled with them: WBAN, which stands for wireless body-area networks, in the emerging market segment of home health monitoring devices.
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23 June 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): BAN, Elderly, mHealth, Monitoring, Wearable
