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  3. If you’re in a hospital and your doctor wants to monitor you without being in the room, there’s an app for that. There are also

If you’re in a hospital and your doctor wants to monitor you without being in the room, there’s an app for that. There are also

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问题     If you’re in a hospital and your doctor wants to monitor you without being in the room, there’s an app for that. There are also wireless pacemakers(起搏器)that allow doctors to keep track of your health over the Internet, as well as all types of sensors that check your vital signs and can be transmitted to a smart phone or laptop. The use of wireless-enabled devices is happening in hospitals across the country and, according to a report out this week by ABI Research, "this multibillion-dollar market is poised for even faster growth as more and more medical equipment is shipped WiFi-enabled. "

    Depending on wireless-enabled health-care services could prove to be useful for several reasons. The biggest is that it allows doctors and hospitals to deal with the crush of aging patients who require regular checkups. For example, if a doctor can check your vitals via his BlackBerry, he avoids the time and cost of bringing you in to do the exact same thing. The idea is that these small changes will make health care more efficient and overall service better and even cheaper. Of course, we can’t forget the financial benefit to this sector, which grew more than 60 percent over the past 12 months in both wireless local area network and Wi-Fi real-time location system deployments. Not bad for a relatively nascent(新生的)market.
    But there are some concerns about getting wired in the name of health. Like what happens if the equipment goes kaput(故障的)or misreads signs of a heart attack? ABI Research principal analyst, Jonathan Collins, told me that the adoption of wireless by the health-care sector will focus on noncritical applications for now. "It will measure things that are routinely monitored, where a change in a patient’s status won’t result in a life-or-death situation, but rather if a patient has an uptick in blood sugar, a doctor can call them up and see how they’re feeling. "
    The Food and Drug Administration and Federal Communications Commission are scheduled to meet next month to discuss how to promote investment and innovation in health technology so it sounds like there’s little that will get in the way of this boom. If all of this sounds scary, consider it a normal reaction. Even a few patients who are on board and happy about this tech shift were freaked out once upon a time. Carol Kasy-janski, who wore a traditional pacemaker for 20 years for a heart condition, became the first American to be fitted with a wireless pacemaker last year. At the time, Kasyjanski told Reuters that her initial "fears have slowly been replaced by a sense of relief, knowing that her heart is under constant surveillance(监视). "  
What does the author think of the wireless health-care technology?
选项 A、It will soon replace the traditional devices.
B、The patients have the final say.
C、It has a very promising future.
D、Nothing will get in the way of its boom.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。最后一段作者提到如果所有这些听起来都让人害怕，那请把这当成一种正常的反应吧，并列举了一个病人对这种新技术从恐惧到放松的例子。由此可以判断出，作者是支持这项新兴的无线技术的；故[C]项正确。原文没有说明这项新技术会很快取代传统的设备，故[A]项错误。原文只是说明了一些病人对待这项新技术的态度，没有病人们有最终的表决权，故[B]项错误。最后一段首句提到食品医药管理局和联邦通信委员会计划下月讨论如何推动医疗技术投资与创新，因此听起来好像没有什么能阻挡这一技术的兴起。但作者没有肯定的说没有什么能阻挡这一技术的兴起，故[D]项错误。
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