Author Archive: katiemccray
Member News: Paul Jacobs expands Qualcomm, partners with Telcare
By Malia Wollan, The New York Times – Paul Jacobs Helps Qualcomm Get a Jump on Rivals SAN DIEGO — When Paul E. Jacobs took over from his father as chief executive of the chip maker Qualcomm in 2005, mobile phones were just beginning their transition from tools for talking to hand-held computers delivering data [...]
Robert McCray Interviewed by FierceMobileHealthcare
By Dan Bowman FierceMobileHealthcare Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance President and CEO Robert McCray believes that it’s only a matter of time before mobile healthcare takes off in much the same manner as e-commerce in the 1990s. Following the WLSA’s 6th Annual Convergence Summit in San Diego last month, McCray chatted with FierceMobileHealthcare about his takeaways from [...]
Robert McCray quoted in article “Why the stethoscope (and other medical devices) are on the way out”
By: Courtney Boyd Myers The Next Web According to Rob McCray, President and Co-Founder of the Wireless-Life Science Alliance, we are just starting to uncover the possibilities that wireless healthcare will enable: “If this were the Internet commerce sector, we would be in 1995 when it was not clear what shape that sector would take.” [...]
Summit 2011 Coverage: Wireless Health Opportunity Begins at Conception
By: Brian Dolan Source: mobihealthnews Earlier this month Rob McCray the President and CEO of the Wireless Life-Sciences Alliance (WLSA) wrote in an editorial piece for MobiHealthNews: “If a device or service can be connected, it should be (under penalty of malpractice, obsolescence and/or customer dissatisfaction). How else will you be able to answer questions [...]
Member News: Verizon Awards Grant to Expand Wireless Healthcare
By Priya Lopes Verizon Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to Sight Savers America to Expand Its School-Based Rural Health Care Program MONTGOMERY, Ala.– The Verizon Foundation on Wednesday (May 18) awarded Sight Savers America a $100,000 grant to expand the use of wireless technology for the organization’s KidCheck Program, a K-12 school-based health initiative that provides [...]
