1/10/11 FDA Eyes Regulation of Hospital Wireless Networks

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As more hospitals and clinics plug patient monitoring equipment and other devices into traditional data networks, the closer the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes to regulating the networks as medical devices. "We're trying to get away from separate networks and put those medical devices on the IT backbone; the problem is that backbone has never been tested to support these medical systems," said Rick Hampton, wireless communications manager for Partners HealthCare System in Boston.

For more information:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9203761/FDA_eyes_regulation_of_wireless_networks_at_clinic s_hospitals?taxonomyId=70