{"id":1378,"date":"2007-09-05T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2007\/09\/05\/cellphones-get-the-all-clear-at-some-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:53","slug":"cellphones-get-the-all-clear-at-some-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/09\/05\/cellphones-get-the-all-clear-at-some-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphones get the &#8216;all clear&#8217; at some hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1618\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The concern about the phones, hospital officials say, is that their signals could create electromagnetic interference with sensitive medical devices, such as ventilators or external pacemakers. Opinion is divided; some experts say the risk has been overblown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Some doctors even say cellphones promote better communication, which reduces medical errors. And people rely more heavily now on their wireless devices to stay connected to work and family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Today: Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones. But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones. The concern about the phones, hospital officials say, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}