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GE Healthcare develops wireless medical monitoring systems for patient care. This real-time patient information can be collected and transmitted to doctors and nurses to enable efficient patient monitoring from any location.
Improved clinical decision support systems ensure health care providers have the most current patient information as they evaluate treatment options.
The FCC recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, acting upon GE Healthcare’s petition to establish a new, vendor-neutral dedicated radio frequency band for low-power, short-range, wireless patient monitoring (medical monitoring systems) devices.
This petition requested creation of a new Medical Body Area Network Service, to support wireless sensors that monitor a patient’s health state, linked together in body sensor networks.
“GE Healthcare applauds the FCC’s NPRM proposing to create a dedicated radio frequency band that will help remove a major obstacle to the adoption of wireless medical Body Sensor Networks,” said Munesh Makhija, General Manager of GE Healthcare Systems and Wireless. By replacing burdensome bedside-monitoring cables, BSNs could enable critical-care patients to move around freely, which studies suggest is essential to efficient recovery.”
By eliminating restrictive clinical cables, body sensor networks represent a logical evolution in patient monitoring. Body-worn sensors could free patients from the limitations of stationary bedside monitors, improving quality of care.
GE Healthcare Solves Medical Monitoring Systems Challenges
Patient monitors typically tether patients to their beds with restrictive wires and cables presenting challenges for caregivers and patients alike. For caregivers, wired monitors restrict the ease of patient transport, limit the flexibility of acuity monitoring, and hamper infection control and data integration.
GE Healthcare is developing new technologies like BSNs that solve these problems, meeting the unmet needs for caregivers and patients-improving clinical outcomes and caregiver workflow. Today, many patients are treated in specific care areas based on monitoring need alone.
BSNs will bring hospitals greater monitoring flexibility and scalability so they can monitor more patients with fewer staff. Additionally, BSNs will allow caregivers to wirelessly monitor many parameters outside of specialized care areas. The proposal requests the FCC allocate frequencies 2360 to 2400 MHz on a secondary, licensed basis for low-power, short-range, wireless medical monitoring systems devices such as BSNs.
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