This week, FCC grants spectrum space to devices that help patients with paralysis, and the federal government agrees to fund telehealth in the Mississippi Delta.

• Medical Devices That Help Paralyzed Move Will Get Radio Spectrum (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
• USDA Awards $6 Million for Rural Telehealth (Information Week)
• Competition to Heat Up in the Telehealth Market (ECN)
  
• 9 Mobile Health Apps Worth a Closer Look (Information Week)
• Health Care Reform Could Hurt Medical Device Firms (Forbes)
• The Human Element: Professor Mary Beth Privitera on Designing the Devices Surgeons Want (MD+DI)

—Jamie Hartford