{"id":44,"date":"2009-08-11T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/case-reports\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-08-11T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T17:22:26","slug":"first-internet-connected-pacemaker-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/case-reports\/2009\/08\/11\/first-internet-connected-pacemaker-no\/","title":{"rendered":"First internet-connected pacemaker? No."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently noticed this claim. “NEW YORK (Reuters) – After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the first American recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar — over the Internet.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE5790AK20090811<\/a><\/p>\n

(Strangely it became a World first when taken up by Yahoo! http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090810\/lf_nm_life\/us_pacemaker_2<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Dr. Steven Greenberg, the director of St. Francis’ Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Center, said the new technology helps him better treat his patients and will likely become the new standard in pacemakers.<\/em><\/p>\n

He said the server and the remote monitor communicate at least once a day to download all the relevant information and alert the doctor and patient if there is anything unusual.<\/em><\/p>\n

“<\/em>If there is anything abnormal, and we have a very intricate system set up, it will literally call the physician responsible at two in the morning if need be,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The wireless pacemaker, made by St. Jude Medical Inc., received FDA approval in July.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

That sounds great … but it certainly isn’t much of a first other than for the St Francis’ centre.<\/p>\n

At BMJ Case Reports we published a case of a web-connected implantable cardioverter defibrillator detecting digoxin toxicity<\/a> a few months ago. That case report cites a paper that evaluated a German system<\/a> where “devices have an embedded antenna for wireless transmissions of diagnostic information to a Service Center where messages are decrypted, stored as well as loaded on a protected website accessible to the attending physician through identity codes and a personal password<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

A so-called medical breakthrough story changes in the telling.<\/p>\n

The Reuter’s story starts:<\/p>\n

“NEW YORK (Reuters) – After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the first American recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar — over the Internet.<\/em>” Reuters original<\/a><\/p>\n

but has been misquoted by Yahoo! News as<\/p>\n

“NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013 After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the world’s first recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar — over the Internet.<\/em>” Yahoo!’s misquoted version<\/a><\/p>\n

‘First American’ becomes ‘World’s first’. Yahoo! News says it “does not write or edit any of the news on our site<\/a><\/em>.” So I wonder how it got changed?<\/p>\n

Are news websites in the best position to judge medical firsts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently noticed this claim. “NEW YORK (Reuters) – After relying on a pacemaker for 20 years, Carol Kasyjanski has become the first American recipient of a wireless pacemaker that allows her doctor to monitor her health from afar — over the Internet.” http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE5790AK20090811 (Strangely it became a World first when taken up by Yahoo! http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090810\/lf_nm_life\/us_pacemaker_2) […]<\/p>\n

Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[711],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\nFirst internet-connected pacemaker? No. - BMJ Case Reports blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/case-reports\/2009\/08\/11\/first-internet-connected-pacemaker-no\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First internet-connected pacemaker? 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