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 ...

In this free webinar, gain insight into how product safety compliance applies to connected medical devices and the testing pathways that support market access. Attendees will learn about the essential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ken Fuchs, senior principal architect, Enterprise Systems at Mindray (Mahwah, NJ), will speak on "Using Risk Management to Successfully Deploy Wireless Medical Devices" at the MD&M West MedTech ...

With the healthcare environment around the world looking both increasingly valuable and increasingly tenuous as an aging global populace looks for healthcare answers, the need to save costs in the ...

The Food and Drug Administration has released a guide to using radio frequency wireless technology in hospitals and other healthcare settings. The guide is a list of nonbinding recommendations on the ...