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Cellular Radio Telecommunication for Health Care: Benefits and Risks

Affiliation of the authors: Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.

Correspondence and reprints: Charles A. Sneiderman, MD, PhD, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894; e-mail: <charlie{at}nlm.nih.gov>.

Received for publication: 01/09/04; accepted for publication: 06/15/04.

Cellular radio telecommunication has increased exponentially with many applications to health care reported. The authors attempt to summarize published applications with demonstrated effect on health care, review briefly the rapid evolution of hardware and software standards, explain current limitations and future potential of data quality and security, and discuss issues of safety.