Healthcare X Prize

By  Brian Dolan 12:16 pm May 27, 2009
mobihealthnews recently caught up with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, chairman of the Life Sciences Prize Group Steering Committee at the X Prize Foundation, and the newly appointed executive director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute. Soon-Shiong is also founder and chairman of Abraxis BioScience and executive chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health.  The Wireless Health Institute (WHI) was established...
By  Brian Dolan 08:43 am May 27, 2009
The X Prize Foundation has set its sights on healthcare reform  and has launched a $10 million Healthcare X Prize competition to spur innovation from global health innovators. The overall aim of the competition is to increase health care value by 50 percent in a 10,000 person community over a three year period. As we have heard from a number of wireless health thought leaders, remote monitoring...