We attended the TEDMED event this past October in San Diego, because it included a number of speakers discussing wireless health innovations: West Wireless Health Institute’s Dr. Eric Topol, NeuroVigil’s Dr. Phillip Low, Proteus Biomedical’s Andrew Thompson as well as…
World Economic Forum turned attention to wireless health: At the World Economic Forum last month, a number of wireless health start-ups were among the speakers. One was Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs whose team has uploaded this video about the wireless…
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…
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…
San Diego, California-based start-up Triage Wireless has changed its name to Sotera Wireless as part of an agreement with Inverness Medical Innovations, which markets products under the Triage brand. Triage Wireless, now Sotera Wireless, has close ties to Qualcomm and…
Best Buy announced today that 40 of its stores in the U.S. have begun offering personal health solutions devices like pedometers, Bluetooth-enabled weight scales and blood pressure monitors. “New technologies are emerging daily to help people plan, monitor, and enhance…
The magazine Start-up recently published an overview of the wireless health industry but wrote it as a wake up call for medical device makers. Here’s the paragraph that really boils down what’s been going on in wireless health: “The wireless…
Jitterbug’s acquisition of mobile personal emergency response system (M-PERS) start-up MobiWatch this week was demonstrative of a business model and device strategy that doesn’t seem to work in today’s wireless health market. MobiWatch’s planned offering, MobiFob, was a key-chain with…
One of the key enabling technologies for the wireless health market is wireless sensors — BandAid-like, peel-and-stick biometric sensors that also include low-power, short range wireless radios. Similar sensors may be implantable or embedded in our sneakers like Nike+. Examples…
(Pictured on Left) Ezekiel Emanuel, Special Advisor for Health Policy, OMB, Executive Office of President Obama. The organizers of TEDMED managed to get Emanuel to close out the second day of the event with a sit-down discussion, however, he was…
