Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance

WLSA / TripleTree I Award Application Period Extended

kwinston — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:59:54 +0000

March 2010
TripleTree I Award® Call for Applications (EXTENDED TO March 8, 2010)
The TripleTree I Award® for the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance recognizes innovation, insight and initiative within wireless life sciences and mobile health industry sectors. And, twelve I Award® finalists will get to attend and present in panel discussion at the invitation-only Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) Investor’s Meeting on May 11, 2010 in San Diego.

Award applicants will be asked to clearly articulate how their application or solution can reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare outcomes in one of three categories. A panel of independent judges (Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance) will choose the twelve finalists, and from this group, three winners will be selected.

I Award® Categories:

Best Operational Effectiveness Solution — The mobile or wireless solution that reduces costs and improves operational efficiency.

Best Clinical Application — The mobile or wireless life science solution that enriches clinical care.

Best Consumer Experience Solution — State-of-the art mobile or wireless experience for the consumer or patient.

Click here for more information. Click here to apply today!

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Huntington Hospital equips nurses with Voalte

andreajackson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:26:51 +0000

Huntingon Hospital has inked a deal with Sarasota, Florida-based startup Voalte, to equip its nurses and other point of care workers with iPhones that leverage Voalte’s voice, alarm, text message communication platform. Voalté (its name comes from Voice, Alarm, Text) enables healthcare workers to send and receive text messages, make voice calls, and receive critical care

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Cisco, Molina Healthcare launch telemedicine project in southern California

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:16:37 +0000

Fifteen sites in southern California will soon be delivering primary and specialty care services to underserved residents through a telemedicine program being piloted by Cisco, Molina Healthcare and the state.

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Summa physicians aim for ARRA funds with EHR

robmccray — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:52:43 +0000

Summa Physicians, a multi-specialty physician organization and part of the Summa Health System in Ohio, will roll out electronic medical record systems to its 223 physicians serving 33 specialties. Summa will deploy Westborogh, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks’ electronic medical records solution.

Panel points to missed opportunities in proposed meaningful use rules

andreajackson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:26:11 +0000

Quality measures that a federal advisory panel recommended but that were dropped from proposed rules for the meaningful use of healthcare IT represent a missed opportunity to significantly improve patient care, according to members of the Health IT Policy Committee. In its proposed rule for meaningful use, announced Dec. 30, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services incorporated many of the suggestions for quality objectives and measures that the Health IT Policy Committee recommended.

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12 EMRs with remote access iPhone apps

robmccray — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:16:31 +0000

MobiHealthNews broke the news last week that the mobile EHR product that came out of Apple’s pilot with EMR vendor Epic Systems was an iPhone app called Haiku, but Haiku was not the first EMR to grant iPhone and iPod touch users remote access. Epic aside, a number of EMR vendors launched iPhone apps for

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WLSA Convergence News, January 2010

kwinston — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:08:42 +0000

TripleTree I Award® Program Call for Applications (January 25 – February 25, 2010)
The TripleTree I Award® program recognizes innovation, insight and initiative within wireless life sciences and mobile health industry sectors.

Award applicants will be asked to clearly articulate how their application or solution can reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare outcomes in one of three categories. A panel of independent judges will invite 12 finalists to participate in panel discussions at the invitation-only Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) Investor’s Meeting on May 11, 2010 in La Jolla, CA. Three winners will be selected from the 12 finalists.

I AWARD® CATEGORIES:

Best Operational Effectiveness Solution — The mobile or wireless solution that reduces costs and improves operational efficiency.
Best Clinical Application — The mobile or wireless life science solution that enriches clinical care.
Best Consumer Experience Solution — The most enriching mobile or wireless experience for the consumer or patient.

You will soon be seeing a formal announcement which opens the call for applications.

Upcoming Events for 2010

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Should mHealth companies want FDA regulation?

kwinston — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:00:25 +0000

By Bradley Merrill Thompson, MBA, JD (I would like to thank Dr. Deepak Ayyagari of Sharp Laboratories of America and Dane Stout of the Anson Group for their comments on a draft. The views expressed, right or wrong, are only the author’s and should not be attributed to the commenter’s.) At the risk of insulting my

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CES: Consumer health breaks out

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:27:00 +0000

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

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Meridian Health taps MedApps for CHF

robmccray — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:40:14 +0000

Wireless remote monitoring technology developer MedApps has announced a partnership with New Jersey-based healthcare provider Meridian Health, to monitor patients who were recently discharged from acute care settings with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). According to the two companies, the aim is to monitor the patients on a daily “near real-time” basis in an effort to

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