Could surgery centers, ICU - Intensive Care Unit, tomography and X-ray equipments be affected by frequencies emitted from Wireless Access Points? Did IEC 60601-1-1 make any restrictions?
Dear Vargas, I guess about controls compliant with Law. Patients are safe because the WLAN wavelengths are approximately equal to 10 dm, far away from human cell length. TIA.
Are you located in the US? Each Country has it's own laws. In the US, hospital have to comply with HIPAA, HITECH, and maybe even SOX, to name a few. If say, you were using NIST 800-53 Rev 3; Access-Control (AC)-13 deals with Wireless Access from a technical control. You still have to address all the controls. The management (i.e. policies), operational (i.e. training, configuration management), and the rest of the technical (i.e. audit, authentication) controls to make sure you're operating safely for you patients. The last thing you want is someone hacking your systems and changing the medication of a patient to something that can causes death. I hope this answers you question. If not, please provide further details. :)
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