GE Healthcare Path to Patient-Monitoring Boom Impeded by Boeing
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Technology companies led by General Electric Co. want to revolutionize the nascent medical-monitoring industry by taking to the airwaves. Standing in the way is Boeing Co.
GE’s health-care unit has asked the Federal Communications Commission to allow devices that transmit patients’ vital signs to share the 2360MHz to 2400MHz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, now used by Chicago-based Boeing to test the safety of planes. It’s the only section of the spectrum where remote monitoring would be cost-effective, according to GE Healthcare.