Carnegie Mellon's CyLab MRC hosted a number of wireless health luminaries last week--we already covered the talk by Microsoft--now the CyLab blog has a post covering Qualcomm Vice President for Business Development in Health and Life Sciences Don Jones' presentation, called "Wireless Health Connectivity Collapses Time and Space."

"There are four billion cell phones in use in the world today," Jones observed, "three billion more than any other computing or consumer electronic device. The phone," he said, "is the most personal device."

Qualcomm, a longtime proponent of mHealth, is focused on Body Area Network (BAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) mobile healthcare strategies, which already include commercial products (like Cardionet's). Many remain in clinical trials. 

During his presentation Jones highlighted another mobile cardio company: CardioMEMS, which develops wireless implants. Jones also covered smart Band-Aids (presumably by Johnson & Johnson since that's their copyrighted term) for future mobile fitness services, and highlighted CHEALCOMM as a leader in the healthcare hub at home space. 

Jones said CardioMEMS features "miniature implantable sensors, which use radio frequency energy to transmit real-time data and communicate this information to the patient's physician for the management of patients with congestive heart failure."

Smart Band-Aids will help people to measure and wirelessly transmit information while working out, he explained, while the CHEALCOMM home health hub lets users capture and wirelessly transmit vital signs, too.

For more on Jones' talk at CyLab check out the blog post and link for his presentation.