Wireless Health news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsInfluence of m-health comparable to cars and transportation
Will wireless and mobile technologies be as transformative to healthcare as the automobile was to transportation a century ago? At least one person close to the geographical epicenter thinks so. Read more...
AT&T to market WellDoc mobile diabetes app
In August, WellDoc, a Baltimore-based developer of disease management technology, became one of the first companies to receive FDA approval for a mobile healthcare product, an analytics system for Read more...
VA challenges mobile device, app developers to improve care
The Veterans Affairs Department, with the help of the West Wireless Health Institute, are asking developers to create an original wireless sensor or application that connects patients with their Read more...
U.S. lags behind in mobile health adoption
Regular readers of FierceMobileHealthcare should be familiar with the idea that basic applications like text messaging or even voice communications can be awfully effective in low-income parts of the Read more...
West Wireless hires former FCC health official
Score another one for the West Wireless Healthcare Institute. The La Jolla, Calif.-based organization on Monday announced that it has hired former Federal Communications Commission official Dr. Mohit Read more...
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...
West Wireless offering $10,000 for integrating sensor data into social media
The West Wireless Health Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, the Markle Foundation and the University of Wisconsin have announced a total of four new Read more...
West Wireless CMO: Opting for money-saving mobile technologies is a matter of priorities
Everyone with an inkling of knowledge about healthcare policy knows that the current system of episodic "sick care" is unsustainable. "There's a bleak future that's in front of us unless something Read more...
'Smart' Band-Aids signal new possibilities for remote monitoring
"Smart" Band-Aids that can detect vital signs and alert healthcare professionals when there's an abnormal reading may be new, but they represent more than a decade of advances in the field of remote Read more...
Use remote monitoring for prevention, says West Wireless and Scripps leader Topol
For all we've written about the West Wireless Health Institute and related institutions and activities in the San Diego area, we haven't had much lately about Dr. Eric Topol, who co-founded the Read more...
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