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Dedicated spectrum for MBAN – a step forward or backward?

This is a guest post by my colleague Fraser Edwards who leads the Radio Systems group at Cambridge Consultants.  Fraser has worked in the wireless arena for the last 25 years and has worked in areas as diverse as high temperature superconductors, through leading development of the worlds first micro cellular medical telemetry system and [...]

Wireless health – Part 1: How do we transmit all the data?

Please excuse me for introducing another term, ‘Wireless’, to the plethora of Mobile Health, Connected Health, Telehealth, etc. Paul explained in an earlier post here a while ago. But I’d like to focus on the mobility aspect of all the health applications, the reason why we want to make these applications wireless: Patients are rarely [...]

Can wireless connectivity save Big Pharma millions?

As I strolled through the technical posters and exhibit stands at the Respiratory Drug Delivery (RDD) conference this year, I kept thinking about the hundreds of millions of dollars that pharmaceutical companies need to spend on new drug trials. With the FDA increasingly demanding more post-market data the costs are only going to increase unless [...]