Last week the West Wireless Health Institute's CEO Don Casey announced his resignation. He plans to join an as yet unnamed "major health care company" where he plans to bring the institute's mission of lowering the cost of healthcare. The WWHI has not yet named a replacement CEO.
Prior to joining the WWHI in March 2010, Casey was the worldwide chairman for Johnson & Johnson’s comprehensive...
"The wireless health industry needs to focus more on lower cost solutions," West Wireless Health Institute CEO Don Casey told MobiHealthNews during an interview at the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance this week. "Instead, the industry is too focused on leveraging specific technologies to deliver a wireless data set that only increases utilization of the system and therefore costs. If we are able...
The West Wireless Health Institute has added another former Johnson & Johnson executive to its ranks: Dr. Joseph Smith has joined the WWHI as its new Chief Medical Officer. Smith was the vice president of emerging technologies for Johnson and Johnson in the Corporate Office of Science and Technology. Dr. Eric Topol, the Institute's first Chief Medical Officer will now serve as Institute's...
This week MobiHealthNews had a chance to discuss wireless health trends and activities at the West Wireless Health Institute with the Institute's new CEO Don Casey. We asked Casey to list five things the WWHI will accomplish in 2010, to point to some of the key challenges facing the wireless health industry and more.
MobiHealthNews: Name five things the WWHI will accomplish this year.
Casey: 1)...
"When I was thinking about what next steps are appropriate for me, I've always said: 'How do I get involved with something that is transformative? How do you get involved with something that is focused on the patients? How do you get involved with something that is going to be growing and make an impact?'" Don Casey, the newly appointed CEO of the West Wireless Health Institute said in a recent...
The West Wireless Health Institute has appointed its first chief executive officer: Don Casey, the former worldwide chairman for Johnson & Johnson's comprehensive care group. At WWHI, Casey will help the Institute execute its goal of serving as a catalyst for wireless health innovations, technology incubation, advocacy and education. Casey will help forge and execute the Institute's global...
