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		<title>Leveraging the frugal innovations of mobile health</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/16113/leveraging-the-frugal-innovations-of-mobile-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children's Hospital Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frugal innovations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our recent video report, Mobile Health Challenges in 2012, Dr. Eric Topol, the Vice Chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute, had this insight:
&#8220;Right now healthcare is incredibly expensive, but a lot of these new innovative technologies are frugal innovations. For the first time they not only fulfill unmet needs, but at lower costs,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Wireless Health Institute studies Sense4Baby impact in Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Slim Health Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qualcomm Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sense4Baby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI) and the Carlos Slim Health Institute (CSHI) kicked off a research study in Mexico that aims to track the impact mobile health and connected devices have on maternal health in the state of Yucatan in Mexico. The technologies used in the study are part of a &#8220;Wireless Pregnancy Remote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less than 1 percent of hospitals fully use tablets</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/15515/less-than-one-percent-of-hospitals-fully-use-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EMR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital tablet adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than one percent of US hospitals have fully functional tablet systems, according to Jonathan Mack, director of clinical research and development at the West Wireless Health Institute. Despite financial incentives from the government, US hospitals are still slow to adopt EMRs, Mack told Kaiser Health News in a recent interview. Those that do might not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investor: Payor plans to acquire 30 health startups</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/15159/investor-payor-plans-to-acquire-30-health-startups/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/15159/investor-payor-plans-to-acquire-30-health-startups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FCC healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC Telecom Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investor mobile health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investor wireless health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile health venture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radius Venture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most [acquisitions] in healthcare get done between $100 million and $200 million,&#8221; Radius Ventures Partner Dan Lubin told attendees at the mHealth Summit during a panel session this past week. &#8220;Most deals are under $100 million &#8212; that is the exit&#8230; I think we can build companies, make them really attractive, and sell them to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Topol: Haven&#8217;t used a stethoscope in 2 years</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/15097/dr-topol-havent-used-a-stethoscope-in-2-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 mHealth Summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AliveCor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Topol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE Vscan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone ECG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Wireless Health Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The future of mHealth is bright, according to West Wireless Health Institute vice chairman Eric Topol, who spoke this week at the opening keynote of the 2011 mHealth Summit. &#8220;This is a most momentous moment in medicine,&#8221; he told the gathered audience. Topol&#8217;s keynote discussion included current wireless medical products as well as future speculation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CareFusion releases wireless EEG amplifier</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/15076/carefusion-releases-wireless-eeg-amplifier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gullo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain wave monitoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CareFusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CareFusion Nicolet Wireless EEG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EEG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile health brain trauma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile health stroke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CareFusion released its Nicolet EEG (electroencephalography) Wireless Amplifier this week, a device that captures high-resolution brain wave data and transmits it wirelessly to a monitoring computer. The device received FDA 510(K) clearance this past April.
The Nicolet (pronounced &#8220;nick-oh-lay&#8221;) EEG Wireless Amplifier is a portable unit, intended for hospitals, clinics, emergency vehicles and in-home ambulatory settings, which aids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California law, Mercy investment bode well for telehealth</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/14002/california-law-mercy-investment-bode-well-for-telehealth/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/14002/california-law-mercy-investment-bode-well-for-telehealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Versel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Telemedicine and eHealth Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy healthcare system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy virtual care center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile telehealth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telehealth is on a roll this month.
Last Friday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that makes it much easier for patients to access telehealth services and for practitioners to deliver care remotely. The Telehealth Advancement Act, which takes effect Jan. 1, broadens the state&#8217;s definition of telehealth providers to include all licensed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wests launch $100 million health investment fund</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/13960/wests-launch-100-million-health-investment-fund/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/13960/wests-launch-100-million-health-investment-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile health venture capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sotera Wireless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venture capital investment trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Health Investment Fund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary and Mary West, the co-founders of the West Wireless Health Institute, launched a $100 million investment fund, called the West Health Investment Fund, that will provide capital to cutting edge health care technologies and services that aim to substantially reduce the cost of care. A regulatory filing published last year disclosed that the Wests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Center for Body Computing fits in</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/12648/how-the-center-for-body-computing-fits-in/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/12648/how-the-center-for-body-computing-fits-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Versel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Leslie Saxon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As MobiHealthNews reported last week, the University of Southern California Center for Body Computing wants to become the &#8220;epicenter of wireless health.&#8221;
That&#8217;s a lofty goal, considering the other, similar organizations right there in Southern California, including the UCLA Wireless Health Institute right there in Los Angeles, and, down toward San Diego, the West Wireless Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripps: Devices like GE&#8217;s Vscan are promising</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/11955/scripps-devices-like-ges-vscan-are-promising/</link>
		<comments>http://mobihealthnews.com/11955/scripps-devices-like-ges-vscan-are-promising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[GE ultrasound Vscan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE Vscan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that pocket mobile echocardiography (PME) devices like GE&#8217;s Vscan provide “accurate assessments” of ejection fraction, and some cardiac structures in many patients, according to a report in CMIO.
The study, funded by The National Institutes of Health, came about due to the recent release of Vscan, [...]]]></description>
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