08/09/2011
Xconomy
Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless technology giant, launched an internal “wireless fitness challenge” almost four weeks ago for a group of its employees—testing the idea of using similar workplace competitions to promote awareness of wireless health technologies.
When vice president Don Jones kicked off the challenge on July 14, he wrote in a Qualcomm blog [...]
05/12/2011
Fast Company
Qualcomm and the X Prize are offering money for a device that can spot diseases better than a doctor.
Admit it: You’ve spent way too much time trying to match up your symptoms to an illness on the Internet, coming away only with the knowledge that either you’re going to be totally fine or [...]
05/11/2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
Qualcomm is providing seed money to the X-Prize Foundation to study whether a wireless health-themed competition for up to $10 million in prize money is viable.
The X-Prize Foundation didn’t release the amount that Qualcomm would be providing at this time. But the idea is to consult with experts and advisors to create [...]
04/27/2011
Zimbabwean – Online, The
The development of health solutions through mobile devices is revolutionizing healthcare delivery in developing countries. A number of mobile operators, governments and application developers are already working on projects in Africa that are using mobile phones to improve prevention efforts, patient care, treatment support and health data collection. They believe they will [...]
04/22/2011
IT News Africa
Egypt’s Mobinil, and American Qualcomm Incorporated, have partnered on a new initiative, titled Click Diagnostics, which aims to allow dermatologists the ability to diagnose skin conditions remotely through 3G services. The project, in collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Communications, was launched on Thursday as a pilot program [...]
24/2011
Wireless Week
ORLANDO, Fla.—If you weren’t blown away by anything at CTIA, you missed Wednesday’s keynotes, which included a talk and demonstrations by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, chairman and CEO of the Institute for Advanced Health.
While the keynote was billed as Hans Vestberg’s, president and CEO of Ericsson, it belonged to Soon-Shiong, who was kind enough [...]
10/2011
Mobihealthnews
Jarrin, senior director of government affairs for Qualcomm, wasn’t thrilled by the fact that the federal stimulus for health IT was so heavily slanted toward electronic health records, with little direct focus on wireless and mobile technology.
“The issue that we’ve had from a mobile perspective with that entire process is that when they talk [...]
01/20/2011
Business Wire
BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continua Health Alliance, the global non-profit, open industry alliance of more than 230 leading healthcare and technology organizations, today announced that it has elected Qualcomm’s Senior Director of Market Development, Clint McClellan, to President and Chair of Continua’s Board of Directors. McClellan has represented Qualcomm on the board since 2009. He begins [...]
12/03/2010
Telecoms.com
The telecom community will be fighting for LTE, while the health community is advocating the use of WiMAX
Mhealth is a topic attracting much of the limelight in the telecoms industry at present, and its regional importance was not lost this week with the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit Middle East taking place alongside the main Telco [...]
11/09/2010
Giga Om
Mobile technology has the potential to make a huge contribution for advancements in global healthcare, but incorporating it isn’t without significant challenges. The mHealth Summit is currently underway in Washington, D.C., where healthcare experts have come together to address these challenges and determine the best courses of action to put the technology to good [...]
