While much has been discussed and heard about using dedicated spectrum to enable real time patient monitoring and other medical devices; IEEE 802.11 standards (for both security and QoS), i.e. 802.11i and 802.11e have provided solid basis for ensuring the proper quality of service and security requirements. This will decrease risk in the highest way…if proper network design is taken into consideration. Carriers simply are not in the position to provide this needed “quality of service” requirement internal the healthcare network environment. While they can provide the bandwidth regarding LTE which is absolutely great; based upon experience a well thought out WLAN enabled medical device will meet these requirements. 3G/4G services are absolutely wonderful for their intended use. The WLAN medical device network should be of a design that would fit a typical voice over IP requirement such as channel utilization under 50%, noise level not to exceed -92dbm, for a SNR 25 dbm where a -67dbm signal strength should be maintained. Packet loss should be less than 1% and there should extremely low co-channel interference.