New wi-fi devices warn doctors of heart attacks - Times Online
The Bluetooth wireless technology that allows people to use a hands-free earpiece while making a mobile telephone call could soon alert the emergency services when someone has a heart attack, Ofcom predicts.
The communications regulator said that sensors could be implanted into people at risk of heart attack or diabetic collapse that would allow doctors to monitor them remotely.
If the "in-body network" recorded that the person had suddenly collapsed, it would send an alert, via a nearby base station at their home, to a surgery or hospital.
However, Ofcom also gave warning in its report, Tomorrow's Wireless World, that the impact of such technology on personal privacy would require more debate.
This was inevitable. I’m surprised, in fact, that it hasn’t already been implemented. And this won’t be the end. Look for full-body health monitoring on a 24-7 basis, coming soon. It may only go to your home computer, which will contain diagnosis programs, or it may go into the cloud somewhere. But it’s coming. And I expect geezers like me, who are looking for every little edge we can get to help us over the hump into real longevity, will be among the first to snap it up.
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