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Internet of Life-Saving Things (IoLST) promises to transform EMS industry, FirstNet’s McGinnis says

Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel soon may leverage information from myriad medical devices and reliable broadband connectivity from FirstNet to provide better initial treatment to patients, as well as unprecedented situational awareness to others in the healthcare ecosystem, according to FirstNet board member Kevin McGinnis.

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Ransomware losses on track to exceed $1 billion this year in U.S., panel testifies to Congress

Ransomware attacks on the computer systems of governments, enterprises and individuals continues to grow, with losses on pace to exceed $1 billion during 2016, federal lawmakers and panelist said yesterday during a Senate subcommittee hearing to explore the issue.

EWA: Mark Crosby discusses organization’s new role as coordinator of shared MBAN spectrum at 2.3 GHz

Mark Crosby, president/CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), talks about his organization’s new spectrum-coordination responsibilities in the 2360-2390 MHz band for medical body-area networks (MBANs). Users of MBAN devices will share the spectrum, which currently is being used for flight-testing applications.

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TCS: Kannan Sreedhar discusses company’s broadband solution to support healthcare providers

Kannan Sreedhar, vice president and general manager of the VirtuMedix group at TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), explains how the company’s VirtuMedix software platform can help providers deliver healthcare services more efficiently and easily to patients in rural areas. Sreedhar spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the recent CCA conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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ExteNet Systems: Eric Abbott outlines wireless-carrier opportunities to serve healthcare enterprises

Eric Abbott, director of product management and strategy, highlights the revenue potential that wireless carriers–particularly in rural areas–can realize by developing reliable, secure solutions for the healthcare sector.

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Newscan: Connected medical devices: The Internet of Things that could kill you

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Connected medical devices: The Internet of Things that could kill you DHS issues a big warning about Senate’s cyber bill Police body cameras: Coming everywhere in 3 to 5 years Government hacked again. It’s about time federal cybersecurity became a national issue What we talk about when we […]

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Trimble integrates Zello push-to-talk app into construction-logistics software suite

Trimble announces that its TrimFleet 6.5 software suite integrates with push-to-talk application Zello for Work to provide customers with a “voice-over-IP radio replacement” for construction logistics.

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CDC continues to update 911/EMS protocol for Ebola

To help public-safety answering points (PSAPS) and Emergency Medical Services safely respond to patients who potentially could have Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to update its guidelines that were first published last fall. Last month, the CDC also released a helpful flow chart.

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City of Dallas uses Airbus DS alerting system to notify public of Ebola issues

City of Dallas officials have used the GeoCast Web alerting solution from Airbus DS Communications to warn residents in areas near those confirmed to have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus, according to Joe Ellis, senior management specialist at the Dallas Office of Emergency Management.

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SafeMobile: Darren Kastner demonstrates solution to bridge two-way radio, Android communications

Darren Kastner, SafeMobile’s vice president of sales, demonstrates how the company’s radioPad Base Station application lets user control two-way-radio functions via Wi-Fi and he SafeBridge LAN unit during this conversation with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson at the EWA/USMSS Wireless Leadership Summit in Denver.

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Internet of Life-Saving Things (IoLST) promises to transform EMS industry, FirstNet’s McGinnis says

News

Ransomware losses on track to exceed $1 billion this year in U.S., panel testifies to Congress

EWA: Mark Crosby discusses organization’s new role as coordinator of shared MBAN spectrum at 2.3 GHz

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TCS: Kannan Sreedhar discusses company’s broadband solution to support healthcare providers

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ExteNet Systems: Eric Abbott outlines wireless-carrier opportunities to serve healthcare enterprises

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Newscan: Connected medical devices: The Internet of Things that could kill you

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Trimble integrates Zello push-to-talk app into construction-logistics software suite

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CDC continues to update 911/EMS protocol for Ebola

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City of Dallas uses Airbus DS alerting system to notify public of Ebola issues

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SafeMobile: Darren Kastner demonstrates solution to bridge two-way radio, Android communications

Commentary

September 3GPP Plenary: 6G officially begins, Release 19 on track

Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services

Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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Check out key takeaways from Disaster Management Symposium webinars, register to view archives

Video: Opening of the Expo Hall on day three of IWCE 2023

Lynk CEO Charles Miller: The sky’s the limit

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