Reference Room

• Risk Assessment for Medical Telemetry Equipment
  Reprinted with permission of Joint Commission Resources Inc. Environment of Care News, September, 2005, Volume 8, Issue 9.
• Practical Strategies for Handling Electromagnetic Interference in a Wireless World
  Reprinted with permission of Joint Commission Resources Inc. Environment of Care News, December, 2003, Volume 6, Issue 12.
  For more information on EC News, visit JCR on the Web at www.jcrinc.com. You may also contact EC News at ecnews@jcrinc.com.
  
  
• ASHE/AHA Alert – Telemetry – Medical DTV and 460-470 MHz freeze expiration
• Inside ASHE Article: October, 2003 Medical Telemetry and Private Land Mobile Radios
• ASHE Safety Alert - FCC Extends 460-470 MHz Freeze
  On April 9, 2004, the FCC extended the freeze on high power use of 460-470 MHz channels for up to an additional 60 days. FCC Public Notice
• Sample Risk Assessment Study
• Time To Upgrade
• ASHE SAFETY ALERT - FCC Lifts Freeze on Licensing of PLMR Transmitters that Operate in in the Same Frequency Range as Many Medical Telemetry Monitoring Systems.
• AHA/ASHE Issue Regulatory Advisory: FCC Requires Hospitals to Register WMTS Equipment, It's Smart Practice, and It's the Law
• AHA/ASHE Issue Regulatory Advisory: FCC Updates WMTS Rule
• AHA Task Force on Medical Telemetry - Report

WMTS Magazine Articles

• "What's the Frequency, ASHE? Get your medical telemetry equipment registered" ; By Dale Woodin, Health Facilities Management, June 2001
• "The WMTS Rule and What it Means for Hospitals"; MEEN Cardiology/Critical Care Technology, January/February 2001
• "Telemetry Forum: Vendors Discuss the WMTS Rule"; MEEN Cardiology/Critical Care Technology, January/February 2001