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How to Test a Wi-Fi Embedded Medical Device
Hospitals are one of the most compelling, yet difficult RF environments. To ensure reliable functionality, a Wi-Fi radio that is embedded in a medical device must be tested thoroughly.When choosing...
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How to Test a Wi-Fi Embedded Medical Device
Hospitals are one of the most compelling, yet difficult RF environments. To ensure reliable functionality, a Wi-Fi radio that is embedded in a medical device must be tested thoroughly.When choosing...
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Innovation in Healthcare has a Home in Cleveland
By Jordan Manser, Technical Writer Over the past several years, there has been a dynamic shift in the types of medical devices found within hospitals. Advancements in technology and government...
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Key Takeaways of New Wireless Medical Devices White Paper
A new white paper, "The Unique Wireless Medical Device Requirement for Healthcare", written by David Hoglund of Integra Systems, will be available next Tuesday, March 10 at ...
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Chronic Disease Management to Drive Wireless Medical Device Market Growth
Chronic diseases and health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and Pulmonary heart disease have been a long running issue for people of all generations. Throughout the past decade, a...
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Testing Wi-Fi Functionality in Medical Devices
Testing RF Performance in Hospitals By Stephanie Lubrano, Marketing Communications Specialist Laird's article, Testing Wi-Fi Functionality in Medical Devices , written by Natalie Sheerer, was...
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Study Finds Security Flaw in Hospital Wireless Networks
By Blaine Sheasley, Marketing Intern In April, Wired published a story, titled “It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment”, that discusses a myriad of security problems discovered...
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BLE Beacons May Help Hospitals
By: Stephanie Lubrano, Marketing Communications Specialist Laird recently featured an article, "BLE and Beacon Technology: Great Potential in the Medical Market" , in the February issue of ...
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The Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013
Here’s a look at Laird’s top 10 most popular blog posts on the Wireless Connectivity Blog for 2013: 10. Lumia Black Update to Showcase BLE : Nokia, acquired by Microsoft, announced that...
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Recap of Laird’s Webinar: Making the Connected Hospital a Reality
On December 12, Embedded Wireless Solutions of Laird hosted a webinar titled, Making the Connected Hospital a Reality: Medical Grade Wi-Fi for Hospitals . The webinar featured guest speakers Bill...
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Laird to Present on Making the Connected Hospital a Reality
Laird Booth Location at Medica Laird Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design and supply of customized performance-critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless...
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Laird to Host Webinar on Making the Connected Hospital a Reality
Embedded Wireless Solutions of Laird will be hosting a webinar, titled Making the Connected Hospital a Reality: Medical Grade Wi-Fi For Hospitals . The webinar features guest speakers Bill Quatier,...
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Laird Announces Dual Mode USB HCI Modules
BT800 Series Module By: Stephanie Lubrano, Marketing Communications Specialist Laird recently announced its first Bluetooth v4.0 Dual Mode USB HCI Modules. Bluetooth v4.0 specification...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Testing Wi-Fi Functionality in Medical Devices
By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist Applications on many medical devices require secure and persistent network connections, because a disruption of even a tenth of a second (100...
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Laird Article on BLE Featured in Medical Design Magazine
An article written by Product Manager Jonathan Kaye and Marketing Communications Specialist Stephanie Lubrano of Laird Technologies was featured in the August issue of Medical Design . The article,...
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Laird Announces BTM46x Bluetooth Modules for iOS Devices
BTM46x Bluetooth Module Laird Technologies announced today the release of the BTM46x Series Bluetooth modules for iOS devices. The BTM46x series enables Apple licensees to leverage Bluetooth...
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Laird Announces BTM46x Bluetooth Modules for iOS Devices
Laird Technologies announced today the release of the BTM46x Series Bluetooth modules for iOS devices. The BTM46x series enables Apple licensees to leverage Bluetooth Data Connectivity. Mass...
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Engineering the Wireless Hospital: Client Device Requirements
Client Devices in a Hospital By: Natalie Sheerer, Marketing Specialist In a recent post , we introduced a Wi-Fi Alliance® white paper on improving the user experience for client devices...
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Ixia White Paper: Testing Wi-Fi for Medical Devices
A white paper from David Hoglund, an expert on Wi-Fi in hospitals, discusses the challenges of ensuring that Wi-Fi on medical devices operates reliably in a hospital. The key to ensuring reliable...
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Laird Article Featured on Health IT Exchange
An article from the Laird Technologies Embedded Wireless Solutions is featured on the Health IT Exchange website. Entitled “ Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Wi-Fi in Hospitals ” , the...
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Classes of Medical Devices
The term medical device can mean anything from a tongue depressor to a pacemaker. Sophisticated medical devices require a very strenuous regulatory procedure, and understanding different classes of...
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Classes of Medical Devices
The term medical device can mean anything from a tongue depressor to a pacemaker. Sophisticated medical devices require a very strenuous regulatory procedure, and understanding different classes...
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Using Smartphones to Operate Proprietary Medical Devices
A recent study from Austin Health Clinical School at The University of Melbourne discusses how, when smartphones operate proprietary medical devices, doctors can have access to valuable information...
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What Are Your Top Concerns When Integrating Wi-Fi in a Hospital?
According to a recent study conducted by Berg Insight®, the number of remotely monitored patients reached about 2.8 million by the end of 2012. Some of the conditions actively monitored are...
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Top 10 of 2012
Here are the top 10 most popular blog posts on the Laird Wireless Connectivity Blog from 2012: FDA Regulation of Mobile Medical Apps : The FDA plans to regulate some smartphone medical...
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Interview with DocBox, Inc.® CTO Tracy Rausch
Many of today's medical devices generate data. Continuous patient monitors provide a stream of data on a patient's vital statistics. Infusion pumps report on what fluids are being pumped into a...
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Hospitals Need to Address Clinical Asset Utilization
A recent study from GE Healthcare® reveals that healthcare organizations such as hospitals are not managing mobile medical devices such as ventilators, infusion pumps, and telemetry units...
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Welch Allyn® Patient Monitors Are FIPS-Validated
FIPS 140-2 is the U.S. federal government standard for encryption and decryption. Our previous blog posts on FIPS 140-2 ( here and here ) noted how few medical devices are validated for FIPS 140-2...
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CPBU Articles Featured on ECN and PD&D Websites
Articles from the Laird Technologies® Connectivity Products Business Unit (CPBU) were recently featured on websites for two publications, ECN and Product Design and Development . The topics...
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Tablets More Accessible than CoWs for Clinicians
According to a recent article from Computer Weekly , mobility and accessibility are the driving factors behind the adoption of ruggedized tablets over computers on wheels (CoWs) in healthcare...
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FDA Regulation of Mobile Medical Apps
Healthcare professionals and patients alike are embracing mobile medical applications for smartphones. Experts project that, by 2015, 500 million smartphone users will be using medical apps. A 2011...
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FCC Allocates Spectrum for MBANs
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it will allocate 40 MHz of spectrum for medical body-area networks (MBANs). The allocated spectrum, 2360 - 2400 MHz, is just...
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VA Waives FIPS 140-2 Requirement for Wi-Fi® Patient Monitor
According to a press release from Draeger®, the Veteran's Administration® is deploying Draeger’s Infinity M300 patient monitors on its Wi-Fi® networks, even though the monitors are not...
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Wi-Fi® Networks at VA Hospitals: What Security is Acceptable?
In late April, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) CIO Roger Baker told FierceGovernmentIT that only one-third of VA's large facilities currently have Wi-Fi® but that the VA plans to have...
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Wi-Fi® Security and HIPAA
Connecting medical devices to a hospital’s Wi-Fi® network improves workflow on both the clinical and financial path. With networked devices, a hospital delivers better care to more patients while...
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What OS Is Best for a Medical Device?
According to Alan Cohen, the director of systems engineering at Logic PD®, Android® is a good operating system - OS - choice for some medical devices. Cohen’s column in Medical Electronics...
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Tablets to Kill CoWs?
For several years, computers on wheels (CoWs) have been the de facto mobile computing device in many hospitals. CoWs place computing power at the point of care, which facilitates adoption of...