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St. John 3.16
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Re: What he meant was..
said by en102  :1. Who would put their patient monitor on a non-SLA DSL or Cable line ? If you're performing mission critical monitoring, you'd better have a T1 or better with SLA. I would expect nothing less out of a hospital.
I don't think home medical monitoring would be considered mission critical, it is convenience and efficiency, not ICU.
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en102
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Valencia, CA | Depends on what's being monitored.
Either way, even a heart monitor could function across a 300kbps line... you just wouldn't want to.
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St. John 3.16
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4 edits | Whatever is being monitored, if it is that critical then you would not be at home. And if you are then you either need to get a different doctor or give someone else power of attorney because you've just demonstrated your incompetence.
Remote (home) monitoring is not for life support. If life, limb, etc. would be endangered by temporary, or even longer term, outage then it is not an appropriate use even with an SLA from ISP.
Think about it, it's not like your doctor is going to be glued to your monitor stream all day and night. That is what ICU is for.
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greendragon
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| Actaully there are a lot of elderly people that refuse or can't afford the care they need.
If for what ever reason they are living away from a doctor and using a internet connection for monitoring I would call that critcal.
If broadband speeds get better there could be a lot of enhancements in the area of home care. 1 nurse could monitor video feeds from homes of multiple people, VOIP communications, etc.
All I'm saying is think outside the box.
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en102
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Valencia, CA
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| While I do agree that it is possible (i.e. basic web cam, portable devices such as a blood/sugar monitor, pulse monitor, etc) where you could upload a day's worth of stats for review.
I wouldn't expect a hospital to have anything less than a 10Mbps or better (most likely DS-3) for voice and data.
Customer can not be considered stable while there are issues with companies adding filters, nebudad or caps on consumption.
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