§ 95.2503   Definitions, MedRadio.

   Duly authorized health care professional. A physician or other
   individual authorized under State or Federal law to provide health care
   services.

   Medical Body Area Network (MBAN). An MBAN is a low power network
   consisting of a MedRadio programmer/control transmitter and one or more
   medical body-worn devices all of which transmit or receive non-voice
   data or related device control commands for the purpose of measuring
   and recording physiological parameters and other patient information or
   performing diagnostic or therapeutic functions via radiated
   bi-directional or uni-directional electromagnetic signals

   Medical body-worn device. Apparatus that is placed on or in close
   proximity to the human body (e.g., within a few centimeters) for the
   purpose of performing diagnostic or therapeutic functions.

   Medical body-worn transmitter. A MedRadio transmitter intended to be
   placed on or in close proximity to the human body (e.g., within a few
   centimeters) used to facilitate communications with other medical
   communications devices for purposes of delivering medical therapy to a
   patient or collecting medical diagnostic information from a patient.

   Medical Device Radio Communications (MedRadio) Service. An ultra-low
   power radio service for the transmission of non-voice data for the
   purpose of facilitating diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions
   involving implanted and body-worn medical devices.

   Medical implant device. Apparatus that is placed inside the human body
   for the purpose of performing diagnostic or therapeutic functions.

   Medical implant event. An occurrence or the lack of an occurrence
   recognized by a medical implant device, or a duly authorized health
   care professional, that requires the transmission of data from a
   medical implant transmitter in order to protect the safety or
   well-being of the person in whom the medical implant transmitter has
   been implanted.

   Medical implant transmitter. A MedRadio transmitter in which both the
   antenna and transmitter device are designed to operate within a human
   body for the purpose if facilitating communications from a medical
   implant device.

   Medical Micropower Network (MMN). An ultra-low power wideband network
   consisting of a MedRadio programmer/control transmitter and medical
   implant transmitters, all of which transmit or receive non-voice data
   or related device control commands for the purpose of facilitating
   functional electric stimulation, a technique using electric currents to
   activate and monitor nerves and muscles.

   MedRadio channel. Any continuous segment of spectrum that is equal to
   the MedRadio emission bandwidth of the device with the largest
   bandwidth that is to participate in a MedRadio communications session.

   MedRadio communications session. A collection of transmissions, that
   may or may not be continuous, between MedRadio system devices.

   MedRadio emission bandwidth. The difference in frequency between the
   nearest points on either side of the carrier center frequency where the
   emission power is at least 20 dB below the maximum level of the
   modulated carrier power, measured using instrumentation employing a
   peak detector function and a resolution bandwidth approximately equal
   to 1% of the emission bandwidth.

   MedRadio equivalent isotropically radiated power (M-EIRP). Antenna
   input power times gain for free-space or in-tissue measurement
   configurations required for MedRadio equipment, expressed in Watts,
   where the gain is referenced to an isotropic radiator.

   MedRadio programmer/control transmitter. A MedRadio transmitter that
   operates or is designed to operate outside of a human body for the
   purpose of communicating with a receiver, or for triggering a
   transmitter, connected to a medical implant device or to a medical
   body-worn device used in the MedRadio Service; and which also typically
   includes a frequency monitoring system that initiates a MedRadio
   communications session.

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