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A Wi-Fi setup in your body, using Bluetooth connected to base station in your home, could alert a hospital of a heart attack or other health emergency, predicts the UK’s Ofcom, the independent regulator for communications industries.
From The Times in London: 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.
Other than possible privacy concerns, such a device seems pretty simple, composed of off-the-shelf ideas: Think external heart rate monitor’s worn by runners mixed with the common cell phone ear bud and the already implantable RFID chips.
