The world's first wireless pacemaker was not implanted today

Search the news on Google via keywords +pacemaker + wireless + first and you'll think according to certain articles that a NY state patient received today the world's first wireless pacemaker. That is not the case. It is not even certain that she received the first wireless pacemaker in the US. She did receive the first wireless pacemaker of a specific manufacturer, St Jude. Other manufacturers such as Biotronik and Medtronic have produced wireless pacemakers and defibrillators for several years; whether the technology is internet or GSM-based, the patient benefits from the same result, of knowing that his or her data are communicated automatically to the physician's office daily.