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 More options Jun 28 2007, 8:51 pm
From: wmchap...@rogers.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:51:17 -0700
Local: Thurs, Jun 28 2007 8:51 pm
Subject: Re: Imaging Pill Interferes with other electronic equipment
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Dan.Hofm...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was reading an article about how wireless network are subject to
> interference, when I came across this text:

> ------
> That's what happened when doctors with Carilion Health Systems, a
> Roanoke, Va.-based health company with 100 doctor offices and eight
> hospitals, began using a new wireless endoscopy capsule last year.
> When swallowed by a patient, the capsule -- a small device about the
> size of a vitamin tablet -- wirelessly transmits images to a receiver
> as it passes through a patient's system.

> Carilion's doctors were given a demo capsule early last year, but they
> hadn't met with the hospital's network administrators to inspect the
> device before they began testing it. Days later, the capsule's high-
> powered transmitter ended up disrupting the wireless network for the
> entire clinic and bumped wireless PCs and handheld scanners used by
> doctors and nurses off the network. Some of the devices that got
> knocked off the network held vital records about patients' medication
> dosages.
> ------

> To my knowledge, only this company has this wireless imaging endoscopy
> pill. Not a show stopper, but some interesting hurtles that need to be
> overcome.

I find it hard to believe that a pill sized transmitter could disrupt
the computer network in the hospital at all.
The power output from a transmitter this size would be on the order of
20 microwatts to as high as 60 microwatts. Hardly enough to pass
through the human body let alone the walls of a concrete reinforced
hospital .
Any one know the actual power output from this device?
This sounds a lot like bad news intended to lower the price.

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