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Healthcare applications are considered as promising fields for wireless sensor networks, where patients can be monitored using wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs). Current WMSN healthcare research trends focus on patient reliable communication, patient mobility, and energy-efficient routing, as a few examples. However, deploying new technologies in healthcare applications without considering security makes patient privacy vulnerable.

Health Care Information Systems (HCIS) has several wireless networks at the UI Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC). These wireless networks are avilable to patients, visitors and also used to delivery patient care. HCIS policy restricts the use of any non hospital approved network devices including wireless access points.

To speed doctor access to patients in need, Maximus Security, a St. Clair, Mich.-based IT company, has developed a high-tech video solution that allows an emergency room doctor to remotely examine a patient and, in some cases, begin treatment while the patient is still in transit to the hospital.

The advanced telemedicine solution called Max Life™ uses in-ambulance camera systems running on a 4G LTE network to provide paramedics and emergency room doctors with two-way audio and live video streaming without the buffering of slower networks.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released final guidelines on the design, testing and use of radio-frequency (RF) wireless medical devices. Although it doesn't promulgate legally enforceable responsibilities, the document is intended to guide both device manufacturers and healthcare providers toward the safe and secure use of wireless medical devices. Covered are devices "that are implanted, worn on the body or other external wireless medical devices intended for use in hospitals, homes, clinics, clinical laboratories, and blood establishments."

Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities face exploding demand for Wi-Fi, whether to meet the needs of the 90+% of physicians with smartphones or to connect the multitude of medical devices that increasingly are networked over Wi-Fi to provide real time monitoring, precise locating and support patient centered workflows. Wi-Fi enables fast access to electronic patient records, improves staff communication, and speeds up delivery of medical images. In addition, guest Wi-Fi access can be extended to visitors in lobbies and waiting rooms.

Aerohive Networks is going public. The wireless access point maker based in Sunnyvale, CA submitted a public S-1 form to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. The company is seeking up to $75 million in the IPO and will seek to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “HIVE.”

The company was also subject to rumors in November that it would be acquired by Dell in 2014 should the IPO market prove unfavorable. That situation apparently is no longer one to trouble Aerohive’s management or investors.

The Internet of things needs a lot of work Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday.

GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.

Today, exactly one day before Verizon starts selling the tablet itself, a software update has enabled full VZW LTE functionality on the 2013 N7.

The software is Android 4.4.2 KVT49L. It should allow any user to add a Verizon line, either singularly or with a family plan, without going to the ridiculous lengths that were previously necessary. The update should also fix a few nagging issues for existing Verizon customers, including the inability to access data from the LTE network and a local WiFi network at the same time.

Look for several non-traditional companies to make headlines at the upcoming Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 24-27.

On Feb. 21, Verizon Communications expects to close the world's biggest financial transaction in more than a decade: The $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has said "One Verizon" will arise out of the combination of Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless.

There have been reports of Apple laptops not being able to connect to Secure Mustang Wireless. A new troubleshooting process has been created.

A group of Democratic senators have introduced a bill that would require all phones sold in the U.S. to have a “kill switch” theft deterrent device installed. The bill requires devices to have free technology that would “allow the consumer to wipe their personal data off the phone, render the phone permanently inoperable to anyone but the owner, and prevent it from being reactivated on a network by anyone but the owner,”

Consumer electronics giant LG plans to debut plans to debut its third generation of L Series Android smartphones at the Mobile World Conference later this month.

In response to the expansion of mobile technology and data-hungry consumers, a number of cable and technology companies have formed a coalition to expand access to Wi-Fi networks. According to The Wall Street Journal, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Google, and Microsoft were announcing the new drive on Thursday.

802.11ac, dubbed 5G Wi-Fi, promises ridiculously fast wireless connections, better range, improved reliability, improved power consumption

The fastest current 802.11n Wi-Fi connections max out at around 150Mbps with one antenna, 300Mbps with two and 450Mbps with three antennas.

Because 802.11ac has bandwidth to spare, it should be great for HD video streaming and for gaming.

Currently 802.11n is the base wireless standard and it will run at least a 2.4GHz 2x2 300Mbps antenna. That last part is important - more advanced router models provide a 3x3 antenna array and a faster 450Mbps throughput

Wireless technology can empower each of us by providing round-the-clock information on the state of our health, also giving healthcare providers a holistic perspective of how we’re doing so that more informed decisions can be made that lead to healthier patients, reduced hospital stays, and lower costs.

Qualcomm Life, Inc. is a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated that is defining and connecting the wireless health network to improve lives and advance the capabilities of medical devices. Qualcomm Life is focused on medical device connectivity and data management and empowers medical device manufacturers to deliver wireless medical data quickly and easily to those who need it.

Today’s healthcare organizations have changed, mirroring or leading the changes seen in their enterprise counterparts. Organizations have become widely distributed, and most don’t have a dedicated IT staff. At the same time, most clinics or distributed sites require connectivity to hospital resources/applications, and reliable, high speed wireless networks to function. The mobile nature of caregivers and the growing use of networked imaging and video in patient care settings make an affordable, easy to manage network mission critical.

The distributed yet centrally manageable Aerohive architecture handles this flood of application traffic with the optimized availability and performance that clinicians can rely on as they strive to improve patient care quality and reduce healthcare delivery costs. Aerohive’s solution includes routers and 802.11n access points, both managed securely via a single instance of HiveManager. Both Aerohive’s remote access network and Wi-Fi solutions function with unprecedented ease of deployment; just plug them in, and they will automatically find their HiveManager, download their configuration, and get down to work