Bluetooth may have become a household name because of its game-changing role in consumer electronics, but its impact on the medical device industry, while less publicized, is perhaps more significant.

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A special-interest group has formed a committee to study the use of Bluetooth technology in medical devices. The medical devices working group is part of the Bluetooth SIG (Bellevue, WA), a ...