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Book Your Omni Hotel Rooms Before May 19th!
Omni Hotel – WLSA Rooms are stillavailable!
The 2013 Convergence Summit is our annual flagship event where healthcare, technology and wireless communication leaders tackle key issues facing the wireless health community. Our 2-day agenda unites thought leaders, strategic investors, policy makers, and entrepreneurs making it one of the best networking experiences within the Connected Health Arena.
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WLSA Announces Confirmed Speakers for Convergence Summit 2013
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance 8th Annual Convergence Summit scheduled May 28-30, 2013 at San Diego’s Omni hotel proudly announces the following confirmed speakers:
Dean Kamen, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
Bakul Patel, Policy Advisor, FDA, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)
Ralph Simon, Mobilium International, mobile entertainment and content industry pioneer
David Saÿen, Regional Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)Early Bird Deadline is March 15, 2013 and Convergence Summit will SELL OUT. Omni San Diego expects to book solid due to Padres Baseball season so please book your hotel rooms now.
To register now, please click Read More below.
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Join Us for the CEA & WLSA Webinar Series!
June 12, 2013: 11:00 a.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. ET.
The Emerging Consumer Market for Connected Health Solutions – Market demand is increasing along with expectations for controlling cost and the use of the data. Connected health fitness, remote monitoring, and diagnostics tools are helping consumers reduce their costs and reliance on traditional healthcare models by allowing them to better manage their health outside of the doctor’s office. Learn about the need and opportunities for consumer-driven connected health products from several successful cutting edge companies.
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Join us at the Connected Health World site, so you can:
Be a part of creating the world’s largest market and connect with others in the space. Contribute to the first openly accessible and structured source of information about the products, services, applications, funding opportunities and communities that are delivering the benefits of digital technology to health. Use it to find your collaborators and partners. Help accelerate the empowerment of health consumers and the creative remaking of healthcare. At the Connected Health World site, users can: Search a comprehensive database of products, services, and companies in the Wireless Health arena. Find information about funding and collaboration opportunities. Catch up on the latest news and research. Connect and collaborate with other users through social media platform.
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Welcome WLSA New Member Walgreens!
Founded in 1901, Walgreens goal is to be consumers’ first choice for health and daily living across the nation, and a central part of people’s lives and the communities where they live and work. The company provides the most convenient, multi-channel access to goods and services, and pharmacy, health and wellness services while developing a new customer experience.
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Welcome WLSA New Member Fitlinxx!
Since 1993, FitLinxx has been an industry-leading provider of wellness applications, wireless activity monitors and health tracking devices that motivate people to live active and healthy lifestyles. At FitLinxx, we are focused on developing wireless activity and health devices, software and integrated data services that make it easy for people to accurately track and measure their daily activity levels, weight and blood pressure. We partner with leading wellness program providers who use our products to develop engaging wellness programs.
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Sharecare and WLSA Launched “HealthMakers 250: Conversations on the Leading Edge”
WLSA is proud to be a strategic partner with Sharecare on the 2013 Health Makers 250 video series which features many of the nations’ top thought leaders in health and wellness, particularly fellow WLSA members and friends such as Walter De Brouwer, co-Founder and CEO of Scanadu; Alan Portela, CEO of AirStrip Technologies; Dr. Molly Coye, UCLA’s Chief Innovation Officer; Dr. Jay Sanders, CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group; and Dr. Lionel Tarrassenko, DPhil, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Oxford. Many well-known leaders such as Dr. Mehmet Oz, Deepak Chopra and Dr. Mike Roizen also appear to share the latest thinking on the direction of healthcare. WLSA continues to help identify and include some of the lesser-known individuals who are shaping health and wellness and we ask you to watch the video series (and check back often) to hear interviews from these impressive innovators!
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Are we about to make the same mistake again?
Why consumers must take charge if connected health is to achieve its promise. For the past 50 years, lives have been extended in industrialized societies but in the past 20 years rates of obesity and certain chronic diseases have skyrocketed in rich and poor countries. The prime culprit seems to be behavior-driven damage to our [...]
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Sotera Wireless
Sotera Wireless, Inc. is a San Diego, California, based medical device company dedicated to development, marketing and sale of a new generation of comprehensive vital signs monitoring.
Soter is ancient Greek for savior. Sotera’s mission is to improve patient safety by empowering clinicians to detect signs of deterioration in virtually any care setting and enable early intervention and rapid response, all without limiting the patient’s freedom of movement. Sotera believes in the power of wireless technology to collapse time and space in healthcare – smart application of wireless technology will enable healthcare providers to do things better, faster, and cheaper.
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AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services.
A leader in mobile broadband, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verseSM and AT&T & DIRECTVSM brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world.
Who We Are
The Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is a special purpose trade organization for innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians, and policy makers.
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What We Do
The WLSA is dedicated to creating value and improving health, globally, through the convergence of communications technologies, consumers, caregivers and all sectors of the life sciences and technology
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