A new frontier for wireless medical devices?

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The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on setting aside part of the broadcast spectrum for wireless medical devices. According to the FCC's estimates, these machines could save over a billion dollars in health care costs. Now this all sounds great but there are some issues here. Like what if the wrong person gets hold of the information your body is beaming out?


A new frontier for wireless medical devices? Medical Devices in Hospitals to Go Wireless (Wall Street Journal)