Wireless nets starting to link medical gear
This article on the EETimes Web site talks about new products being presented:
At least four vendors at the Medical Design and Manufacturing show here displayed 802.11b or Bluetooth devices to put standalone hospital and health care products on a network.
An estimated 5,000 hospitals in the U.S. alone are equipped with a wide variety of standalone electronic devices that are just now being linked to networks.
One of the products presented is an 802.11b embedded Web server about the size of a pack of cigarettes aimed at bringing both wired and wireless communications to hospital systems such as patient monitors and infusion pumps.
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