SK Telecom Americas

Mobile health innovators fighting some stubborn foes

By Neil Versel 02:01 am June 7, 2012

I've necessarily been thinking a lot about patient safety in recent weeks because my dad suffered needlessly during his last month of life in a hospital with badly broken processes that resulted in poor communication and dangerously uncoordinated care. I've already said how I believe mobile technology is helping to improve care by putting pertinent information in the hands of patients and...

Three years and $9.5M later, SK telecom Americas shutters wellness platform

By Brian Dolan 03:45 am June 5, 2012

SK Telecom Americas (SKTA), the Sunnyvale, California–based incubator of the South Korean telecom company has decided to shutdown the employer wellness offering, yesWell, which it has been developing for the past three years, MobiHealthNews has learned. According to an email from SKTA's former VP of Business Development, Richard Meider, that company had spent about $9.5 million developing the...