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|  BPL used in the HOSPITAL setting !
read: The Business Journal of Jacksonville - 3:37 PM EST Wednesday
Nemours/JEA program to allow remote monitoring
Nemours Children's Clinic will give a demonstration March 25 of a new program that will allow nurses to monitor pediatric asthma patients via Broadband over power lines. Nemours will team up with JEA to provide the Remote Home Monitoring program.
Patients in the program will have regularly scheduled virtual visits with a nurse at which they provide medical information from devices such as a pulse oximeter or stethoscope.
By using Broadband over power lines, the program can include video and audio in the interactions between nurses and patients.
The Nemours/JEA collaboration is one of 27 organizations across the country that collectively received $14.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Nearly 500 programs applied for the Technology Opportunities Program grants.
Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children and adolescents in the United States, affecting about nine million children. |
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w2co
join:2003-07-16
Longmont, CO
| And they can easily do the same thing with any dialup connection. If the patient has broadband internet, all the better. I think BPL would be a poor choice for medical information to be transported. After all it can be interupted at any time by legal ingress with no avail as to remedy. |
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N3EVL
join:2004-12-13
Shrewsbury, MA
| yes, our very verbose anti-against-whatever friend trolls yet again, attempting to make BPL *synonymous* with broadband when, in fact, the application he describes could be handled by any internet connectivity solution. I don't buy it, nor do I buy his implied "ends-justifies-the-means" approach to legitimizing BPL. |
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