How handheld devices will cannibalize existing medtech By Brian Dolan, May 12, 2011 Reposted from MobiHealthNews Imaging apps and mobile ultrasound devices are trending this year. Part of what is driving the trend are FDA clearances: MIM Software’s Mobile MIM app became the first diagnostic smartphone app to achieve FDA clearance in early 2011 and [...]

Teladoc to launch FaceTime consultation apps for physicians By Brian Dolan, May 12, 2011 Reposted from MobiHealthNews This summer telehealth services provider Teladoc plans to launch a group of iPhone and iPad medical apps for physicians that will enable them to collaborate using Apple’s FaceTime videocalling app. Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic announced the company’s plans [...]

Panasonic TVs to show BodyMedia data By Brian Dolan, May 11, 2011 Reposted from MobiHealthNews At the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance Convergence Summit this week, BodyMedia CEO Chris Robins told attendees that the company would soon announce a deal with Panasonic to bring real-time results from BodyMedia fitness devices to Panasonic televisions. Robins said the results [...]

News From the Wireless Health Summit: Topol Plans a Medical School for Techies, the X Prize Plans a Challenge for Trekkies, & FDA Official Shows ‘Telepresence’ Reposted from Xconomy By Bruce V. Bigelow, 5/11/11 Some big names were on the agenda yesterday at the 2011 Convergence Summit, which is being held in a downtown San [...]

Reposted from Xconomy By Bruce V. Bigelow, May 9, 2011 After years of carefully shepherding San Diego’s emerging mobile health industry, Rob McCray says the sixth annual wireless health convergence summit that begins tomorrow in downtown San Diego isn’t just about “convergence” any more. McCray, who is CEO of the nonprofit Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), [...]