TripleTree’s I Awards: Proteus, Jitterbug, IntelliDOT

By: Brian Dolan | May 18, 2009

TripleTree i-award Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance La Jolla Last week the mobihealthnews team attended part of the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance meeting out in La Jolla, California. One of the founding members of the Alliance, mid-market investment firm TripleTree, announced its inaugural wireless life-sciences innovation/insight/initiative awards: the I Awards.

TripleTree explained that the awards aim to “showcase companies that are delivering and developing disruptive technologies and services that demonstrate innovation, insight and initiative in the wireless life-sciences sector.”

This year TripleTree awarded Proteus Biomedical, GreatCall/Jitterbug and IntelliDOT as the first recipients of the firm’s awards.

The list of finalists reads like a who’s who of top companies in the emerging wireless health sector. Here’s the full list with links to each company’s website.

Proteus Biomedical – Electronically observed pharmaceutical therapy platform (winner)
GreatCall — Jitterbug: Simple cell phone with 24-hour live service (winner)
IntelliDOT — Wireless workflow manager connecting caregivers with information systems (winner)

BeWell Mobile — Multiple disease management applications
CellTrak Technologies — Homecare automation with GPS cell phones
Diversinet — Health Information transparency in partnership with AllOne Mobile
Epocrates — Rx drug and formulary reference
MedApps — Wireless health monitoring
MicroCHIPS — Continuous glucose management system
Philometron — PTMS program weight management system
Tagnos — Patient flow management applications
Triage Wireless — Wireless telemetry/vital signs monitoring

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