Hospitals Raise Concerns About Unlicensed Use of Channel 37
Dozens of hospitals have filed at the FCC in recent days raising concerns about the agency’s proposal to allow TV white spaces (TVWS) devices to operate in Channel 37 following the TV incentive auction. The frequency is currently used for…
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licensed wireless medical telemetry. The FCC posted them in batches in docket 14-165. Typical of the filings, PMH Medical Center in rural Washington state said it uses wireless telemetry mostly to monitor cardiac patients, allowing a single nurse to keep track of 20 patients. If the hospitals system were affected by an outside source, such as a TVWS device, “it would have a drastic effect on the overall quality of care provided and may indeed cause life threatening lapses in an episode of care for extremely ill patients,” PMH said. Any lapse in its wireless monitoring system “could result in the death of the patient, especially with cardiac critical patients,” said St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Reno. Both letters were in the same batch of filings posted by the FCC.