Drager's new Infinity TeleSmart WiFi-based patient monitors

While we confess to spending very little of our free time dwelling on biotelemetry solutions, we're still pretty stoked to see WiFi cropping up in Dräger Medical's new Infinity TeleSmart line of patient monitors. The new full-size monitors, suitable for children and adults, include built-in color displays to show off those vitals loud and proud, rechargeable batteries, and built-in alarms that can be controlled from the unit. Of course, the big news is WiFi. The inclusion of that 802.11 goodness makes it one of the first telemetry monitoring solutions to support an industry-standard wireless protocol, and should ease implementation in most hospitals. And luckily, the device can continue to monitor patient data even when out of WiFi range, so there's no worry there. Hopefully they can dole some of this WiFi love for our robot friends as well, which could come in handy in those inevitable "I've fallen and I can't get up" situations. Currently the system is pending FDA approval, but we should be seeing it in the US soon after.

[Via Medgadget]

[Mustfa Manzur @ Dec 13th 2006 9:10PM]

Uhh they've had Bluetooth monitoring systems for a while now.

[Billy Bob @ Dec 13th 2006 9:27PM]

what about the health dangers of wifi

[Bryan @ Dec 13th 2006 9:43PM]

So this thing'll tell the doctors when the wifi kills them?

[jakesolo @ Dec 13th 2006 10:00PM]

pretty cool but it looks ridiculous

[Aaron @ Dec 13th 2006 10:12PM]

Will people ever shut up about WiFi? There are no proven health risks if any at all! This is really getting old...

[skmetal7 @ Dec 14th 2006 12:22AM]

this doesn't effect pace makers?

[Stephen @ Dec 14th 2006 12:41AM]

They've had wifi monitoring for years: http://www.monitoring.welchallyn.com/products/wireless/micropaq.asp I worked on an online training for this product three years ago. All of the welch allyn monitors have wifi and a pretty cool base station that allows monitoring of all the patients on the network.

[JE @ Dec 14th 2006 12:46PM]

He looks like he's recovering nicely from his Iocane Powder. Inconceivable!!!

[BatteryAcid @ Dec 14th 2006 1:13PM]

My grampa is one of those "wifi kils" people so I hope he dosnt need to go to the hospital anytime soon. The sadest part is he pronounces it wiff-ey.

[Wharry @ Feb 7th 2007 6:18AM]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone can let me know how I can find out about home wireless medical monitoring devices available now? (i.e. websites, company info)

Many thanks
Wharry