You are here

Home › FCC Plans Nationwide Spectrum Grant for Medical Monitoring Networks › FCC Plans Nationwide Spectrum Grant for Medical Monitoring Networks

FCC Plans Nationwide Spectrum Grant for Medical Monitoring Networks

Primary tabs

FCC Plans Nationwide Spectrum Grant for Medical Monitoring Networks

Sat, 2012-05-19 23:23 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

nationaljournal.com - by Adam Mazmanian - May 17, 2012

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced on Thursday that the agency will likely adopt a plan to dedicate a nationwide swath of spectrum to the operation of wireless medical monitoring devices.

Final approval is expected at the FCC’s next open meeting, scheduled for May 24. The spectrum allocation is part of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan.

The move would make the “U.S. the first country in the world to dedicate spectrum for Medical Body Area Networks in hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices,” Genachowski said.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Groups this Group Post belongs to: 
Knowledge Science
Medical Device
Health - US
Workflow history
Revision ID Field name Date Old state New state name By Comment Operations
No state No state
howdy folks
Page loaded in 0.483 seconds.