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Instto de Salud Carlos III - Wireless Solutions for Healthcare and their Electromagnetic Environment |
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Escrito por Chesko
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jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009 |
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“Quality of life” is emerging as one of the most critical challenges in Europe. This presents a wide range of opportunities for personalized technologies, mainly wireless communications, to support all areas of ICT. In fact, most national policies are considering these communication and information systems as the basic element for the emerging healthcare and social needs under serious economic constraint.
The rapid evolution of new technologies is one of the factors to consider in conjunction with local demographic changes, the legal and social context, the organization of healthcare and social services and the political framework for sources of variability.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are present everywhere in our environment but are invisible to the human eye. Recent advances in wireless technologies have produced a sharp rise in the background level of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) from electrical sources, due to most recently by the soaring popularity of wireless technologies in our environment.
This vision addresses all areas of human life, such as home, education, work, health care and leisure activities. In this way, our environment will be surrounded by multiple mobile and stationary devices communicating wirelessly to work together in a coordinated way. Additionally, the population continues to be exposed to the “more traditional sources”, like those of radio and TV broadcasting, among others.
Developments in wireless technologies have also had a huge influence in the field of medical applications, enabling wireless bio monitoring for medical patient care or workers at risk. Nevertheless, several medical applications use electromagnetic fields in the RF range whose usual frequencies are those allowed for industrial, scientific, and medical applications similar to most industrial sources.
On the other hand, technological advances in miniaturization and wireless communications have enabled the development of wireless biomonitoring devices. Wireless telemonitoring and telecommunication systems must be able to coexist together in the same environment, but the current electromagnetic compatibility and immunity standards do not cover the emerging telemonitoring scenarios.
The problem arises when wireless telemonitoring and telecommunication systems coexist in the same environment, as the current electromagnetic compatibility and immunity standards do not cater for the emerging home telemonitoring scenarios. The compatibility among the new technologies of wireless communication becomes a critical issue for Telemedicine applications and healthcare environments.
International and national bodies have set different limit values for permissible electromagnetic radiation levels in various standards and regulations. The European Union has recognized the importance of EMC, and all products sold in Europe must now meet the essential requirements of the EMC Directive. Compliance with these guidelines may not necessarily preclude interference with, or have effects on, emerging healthcare environments.
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