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Qualcomm: We meet with wireless healthcare device makers daily
Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipmaker for mobile phones, already is a big player in mobile healthcare. And it seems to be getting bigger. "We meet with one medical device company a day," Qualcomm... Read more...
Qualcomm, Cambridge Consultants partner on Continua-certified cellular device
Wireless telecommunications equipment maker Qualcomm continues its foray into mobile healthcare by joining with British technology developer Cambridge Consultants to create a standard wireless... Read more...
West Wireless lands $20M grant for engineering research, inks deal with GE
The founders of the West Wireless Health Institute have given another $20 million to the year-old institution to beef up biomedical engineering research. "The institute's leadership team is in place,... Read more...
Vodafone wants in on the mobile healthcare action
We've just received word this morning that Britain's Vodafone Group is starting up a mobile healthcare unit at the beginning of 2010 that will work primarily with pharmaceutical companies and... Read more...
Wireless health researcher: Mobile connectivity will transform care
We here at Fierce have been saying it for some time: Most of the noise around healthcare reform is related to cost and access, while the innovations that could really fix the system are seemingly... Read more...
CA health organizations look to mobile technologies; NC awards grant to support wireless monitoring;
> Mobile and wireless technologies are central to innovation at Kaiser Permanente and UC-Davis. Article > AmeriChoice, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is donating $290,000 worth of... Read more...
Healthcare is a key industry for new Qualcomm-Verizon joint venture
Qualcomm is continuing what looks like an aggressive push into healthcare by forming a joint venture with Verizon Wireless to provide advanced "machine-to-machine" wireless services that might... Read more...
CTIA, West Wireless tout the value of mobile healthcare
CTIA, the industry association for wireless communication, is trying to raise awareness of the role mobile technologies can play in national healthcare reform. The group convened a policy forum in... Read more...
