By: Brian Dolan Source: mobihealthnews Earlier this month Rob McCray the President and CEO of the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance (WLSA) wrote in an editorial piece for MobiHealthNews: “If a device or service can be connected, it should be (under penalty of malpractice, obsolescence and/or customer dissatisfaction). How else will you be able to answer questions [...]

By Priya Lopes Verizon Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to Sight Savers America to Expand Its School-Based Rural Health Care Program MONTGOMERY, Ala.– The Verizon Foundation on Wednesday (May 18) awarded Sight Savers America a $100,000 grant to expand the use of wireless technology for the organization’s KidCheck Program, a K-12 school-based health initiative that provides [...]

‘Revolution is at hand’ for breakthroughs in medicine By Marni Jameson The Orlando Sentinel Someday soon, thanks to advances in medicine, a surgeon will operate on a patient who is not in the same room, but thousands of miles away. Particles that are one-10,000th the thickness of a strand of hair will hurl through bodies [...]

San Diego, CA – TripleTree announced the winners of the prestigious I Award at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) Investors Fourm during the sixth annual Convergence Summit in San Diego May 10-12. Following an international call for nominees in March, three winners were selected from more than 100 applicants and 12 finalists. The winners in [...]

Phreesia Wins TripleTree I Award for its Innovative Healthcare Solution: The patient check-in company triumphs in a who’s who of top companies in the wireless health sector NEW YORK, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Phreesia was awarded the TripleTree I Award for Operational Effectiveness at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) Convergence Summit in San Diego, [...]