Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal
“The Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), an oncology treatment facility located in the Czech Republic, is employing a Wi-Fi-based real-time location system (RTLS) to enable patients to gain quick assistance in the event of an emergency, and to make staff members more efficient by tracking the locations of medical devices and patients.
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Joel Vincent, SmartGorillas
“The business of healthcare is more than mission critical; it’s life critical. Global efforts are underway to get all medical records electronically accessible.
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Ideaworks
“The development of anytime, anywhere online access to patient data has taken a step forward in China with a new partnership between IBM and a leading IT provider in the country. Big Blue and the Beijing Goodwill Information Technology company have launched an electronic cardiogram management system that allows doctors to access patients’ heart data over a Wi-Fi connection using a mobile device. It is hoped that improved access will help doctors cut the huge number of Chinese people who die each year from the country’s biggest killer.
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Carole Hodsdon, EMR Daily News
“It seems as if we’re inching ever closer to a wide-scale proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs). The much talked about American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contained major incentives to encourage the meaningful use and adoption of the promising technology.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“Medical device makers are seeking their own frequency band for body monitors from the FCC.
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Jim Doyle, PhysOrg
“Here’s a Wi-Fi pill bottle cap that glows and pulses with an amber light when it’s time to open your pill vial, plays an insistent ring-tone melody when you miss the appointed hour, and triggers an automated reminder by phone call or text message if you’re two hours late.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“After far too long in development, Body Area Networks are moving toward the market.
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M2M
“Imagine a job that involved sitting in front of a refrigerator 24 hours a day and checking its temperature every five minutes. It is doubtful many people would apply. Plus, what organization would want to spend the money on that person’s salary? It might be nice to be sure the temperature in the refrigerator remained constant, but is it really worth it in the scheme of things? How much would the owner be out if just one refrigerator breaks?
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“A new report has warned that the security of wireless health applications needs to be improved if they are to realise their full potential.
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Matt Hamblen, The Industry Standard
“ABI Research forecasts that Wi-Fi-enabled health care products will hit sales of nearly $5 billion globally in 2014, up 70% from 2009.
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Celeste LeCompte, Newsweek
“You can get wireless data access just about everywhere these days, from your bathtub to Barcelona’s city streets, so why not in your body?
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“Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that it has been selected as the RTLS vendor of choice for Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the third largest public healthcare system in the United States. CHS is using the Ekahau RTLS solution for a centrally deployed asset tracking application that will work across its acute care facilities.”
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Ekahau, 9 October 2007
“Patients suffering from dementia in a Luxembourg hospital are now being tagged with RFID solutions from AeroScout to ensure they remain safe within hospital grounds and are in close range of nurses and caregivers.”
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e-Health Europe, 9 October 2007
“Thousands of residents of remote villages in southern India have easy access to eye care thanks to a specially designed, low-cost and long-distance wi-fi network.”
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Cristina Jimenez, BBC News, 5 October 2007
