10/11/2010
New York Times
Sensor technology has become smaller, lighter and more powerful. At the same time, more attention is being paid to preventive health and personal fitness as an answer to the nation’s rising medical bills.
A result, for sensor companies like BodyMedia, is an opportunity to marry body sensors to smartphones to create full-body monitors. [...]
10/11/2010
San Diego Union-Tribune
TIJUANA — Qualcomm is joining forces with a Mexican cell phone company and a public health clinic in Tijuana in a pilot project aimed at keeping better track of diabetes patients through wireless technology.
The 10-month clinical trial, set to begin this month, will involve 360 diabetics under treatment at the Clinica 27 in [...]
10/07/2010
San Diego Union-Tribune
Proteus Biomedical is developing an ingestible sensor small enough to be imbedded in a pill.
Imagine a world where a tiny sensor embedded inside a blood pressure pill tells your doctor exactly when you take the medication and what your vital signs are at the time.
High-tech health care gadgets that were the stuff of [...]
09/24/2010
Mobihealthnews
This past week I served as co-chair of the second annual Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London. Fresh off a red-eye flight into London Tuesday morning, I joined Qualcomm’s Vice President of Healthcare Don Jones on-stage to conduct a one-on-one interview for the more than 100 attendees present. Jones outlined a number of strategies for [...]
02/26/2010
Giga Om
Smartphones could be the most important diagnostic tool of this century as part of a revolution in digital wireless medical devices, according to Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist working at The Scripps Research Institute, speaking at the TedMed conference last year. In a video released earlier this week, Topol shows off patches communicating with [...]
01/14/2010
Mobihealthnews
For many years I avoided the Consumer Electronics Show. Too big, I was told. Too much noise — not enough news. With my focus on the wireless industry at the time, this advice was mostly true — for many years CES was not an event where companies made wireless-related news. Then — seemingly suddenly — [...]
01/11/2010
Mobihealthnews
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Friday, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs invited onstage Dr. Eric J. Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI), to discuss the wireless health trend. (Qualcomm is a key supporter of the WWHI.)
Topol’s talk included mentions of [...]
12/10/2009
Mobihealthnews
“The current U.S. market for wireless, home-based health care applications is $304 million,” CTIA, the Wireless Association, wrote in an official comment to the FCC, which is mulling over the health care delivery elements of a national broadband plan. “That market is expected to grow to $4 billion in 2013, with estimated annual growth rates [...]
12/01/2009
Dow Jones Newswires
CEO Colao unveils new division for providing solutions to governments, pharmaceutical companies.
Vodafone Group PLC Chief Executive Vittorio Colao said Tuesday the company will launch new unit to work with pharmaceutical companies and government organizations to provide healthcare services using mobile phone technology.
Vodafone’s new mobile healthcare unit, comprising a team of around 10 [...]
