Why Wireless Health Matters By Robert B. McCray The inadequacies of current approaches to delivering healthcare service are well known and they must change. In the United States, for example, we spend far more on health care than other countries. Yet we still rank at or near the bottom of industrialized nations’ health outcomes. One [...]
European Connected Health Campus and European MHealth Alliance merge to create the European Connected Health Alliance
Thursday - December 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Europe’s leading Connected Health and M-Health membership organisations announced today that they will merge to create the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance). With over 100 members throughout Europe, ECHAlliance will provide a solid foundation for further expansion in the rapidly growing MHealth and Connected Health markets. Announcing the merger, the Chairman of the ECHCampus, Professor [...]
Wireless Health 2011 Summary
Monday - November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Over three hundred and fifty participants from fifteen countries and three continents, all with the commitment to empower the patient and make healthcare more accessible, cheaper and better, gathered in La Jolla, California for the Wireless Health 2011 Academic/Industry Conference in October, 2011. Organized by the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), this conference represented the [...]
WLSA-UKTI host NICE Dr. Bruce Campbell in Educational Forum
Monday - November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Wireless Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) and United Kingdom Trade & Industry Host Dr. Bruce Campbell, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in Educational Forum The WLSA and UKTI jointly hosted an educational networking forum on October 27th for WLSA members and other wireless/mobile health industry leaders to discuss ways in which global UK [...]
Medica 2011
Tuesday - November 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The World’s Largest Forum for In-Patient and Out-Patient Medicine, November 16-19, 2011 MEDICA 2011 – World Forum for Medicine International Trade Fair with Congress, Düsseldorf, Germany MEDICA is the center of attraction for all those involved in the health care industry. Around 138,000 visitors from well over 100 countries are expected to again obtain information [...]
Why Wireless Health Matters
Monday - May 9, 2011 By
Why wireless health matters Robert B. McCray, Chairman & CEO The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance convenes its 6th annual WLSA Convergence Summit in San Diego this week. In 2005 WLSA was the first organization to focus exclusively on the convergence of communications technology and healthcare, based on the founders’ belief that at this intersection we would [...]
FDA panel overly cautious about genetic screening
Wednesday - March 9, 2011 By
An FDA advisory panel this week recommended that physicians oversee the ordering and interpretation of all genetic screeing examinations. Let’s hope that the FDA rejects the recommendation of the panel – the panel should be directed to redo its homework and focus on the question of reliability and quality, not access. FDA policy should be [...]
“The New India," Consumerism and Wireless & Mobile Healthcare
Thursday - February 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ashok Kaul, Vice President, Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance My brother recently migrated back to India to lead a start-up in the electronics sector. As he busily builds his business and reestablishes himself, he has introduced me to the concept of “The New India.” The importance of his remark is wide-ranging as India competitively touches nearly every [...]
Amplifying the Impact: Examining the Intersection of Mobile Health and Mobile Finance
Friday - January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ashok Kaul, WLSA Vice President of Healthcare Convergence, was interviewed recently for a report commissioned by the World Economic Forum and the mHealth Alliance. More people have access to mobile phones today than to clean water. Despite the proliferation of mobile technology it is estimated that by 2012, 1.7 billion people will lack access to [...]
How wireless medicine can make old news new news
Friday - December 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Royan Kamyar Principal & Management Consultant @ MDMBA Consulting, LLC Did you know if you limit your calorie intake, avoid processed sugars, and eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, you will probably live a longer and healthier life? What about exercise? Did you realize that if you exercise on a daily basis, your chances [...]