Amanda Goltz  of The Pacific Business Group attended the Digital Health Summer Summit.  Here’s what she captured in Conference Bites. http://www.conferencebites.com/2012/06/digital-health-summer-summit-highlights-and-favorite-quotes.html 

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Independa to Integrate with Qualcomm Life’s 2net Platform to Expand Health Monitoring Services for the Elderly

Collaboration Provides New Options for Uploading and Accessing Biometric Data Across Disparate Devices and Protocols

SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2012 – Telehealth provides new options for higher-quality, lower-cost monitoring, but interoperability issues have hampered its adoption. To minimize those challenges and add flexibility, Independa™ today announced that it will incorporate the 2net™ Platform from Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, into its Artemis™ suite of telecare monitoring solutions for the elderly and their caregivers.

The 2net Platform is a unique cloud-based service that enables the wireless transfer, storage and display of medical device data. It interconnects with almost all monitoring devices and applications, enabling end-to-end wireless connectivity that provides the device users and their caregivers a convenient, secure, standards-based way to upload and access biometric information.

By incorporating the 2net Platform with its Integrated CloudCare system, Independa will be able to support and aggregate data from a broader array of health sensors, including wireless monitors and inexpensive analog devices that care recipients may already own. Such devices include weight scales, blood pressure cuffs, blood glucose meters and pulse oximeters.

The 2net Platform will enhance the Independa Artemis ecosystem of health, safety and activity sensors by adding support for Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, 2G and 3G cellular, Wi-Fi and ANT+ local area radio protocols. The 2net Platform supports SLL and is a FDA-listed Class 1 Medical Device Data System (MDDS). Caregivers can aggregate information sent to the 2net Platform with Independa’s cloudbased Caregiver Web App and the Angela™ social engagement solution. “

By integrating the Independa and 2net ecosystems, we are offering caregivers and older adults new and more options for comprehensive care while reducing the cost of delivering that care,” said Independa CEO Kian Saneii. “Our arrangement with Qualcomm Life raises the industry bar for flexibility and aggregation, knocking down major barriers to telehealth adoption.”

“We are happy to be working with Independa to help it enhance and expand the reach of its best-of-breed monitoring solutions,” said Rick Valencia, vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Life. “Collaborating with Independa also will strengthen Qualcomm Life’s ability to serve the rapidly-growing independent living and senior care segments.”

Robert B. McCray, President and CEO of the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance, said: “I am pleased when WLSA members, such as Independa and Qualcomm, work together to deliver the benefits of technology to consumers. Qualcomm Life’s 2net provides an essential platform that makes it possible for innovators such as Independa to focus all their attention on delivering the best services to the market. Independa is tackling one of the largest social and economic issues that we face. With a tidal wave of aging seniors, we must create affordable systems to support their independence as long as possible. That is what they want and what our financial system needs.”

Independa will begin offering connectivity through the 2net Platform when its Artemis solution becomes generally available in the third quarter of this year. This option will be available through channel partners, including home care, home healthcare and senior living providers. Independa provides custom solutions to help its partners differentiate their products and services, such as features specific to health conditions or particular service offerings.

The agreement between Independa and Qualcomm Life was announced during the Digital Health Summer Summit in San Diego, in which both companies are participating. About Independa, Inc . Independa offers leading technology-enabled independent-living solutions for the elderly. Independa’s best-of-breed Integrated CloudCare services enable organizations and individuals to cost-effectively help the elderly to remain independent longer, safer and more comfortably. The company, which has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, provides services including medication and appointment reminders, support for activities of daily living, comprehensive social engagement benefits, and wireless health and safety monitoring.

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– Thu, Jun 7, 2012

Want to make it in the digital health sector? Qualcomm Life VP, Don Jones, responds to the tough questions during a special “Digital Health in the Hot Seat” session.

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 07, 2012

Living in Digital Times, the parent company for the Digital Health Summit, today announced the addition of Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, as a co-host of the Summer Digital Health Summit: Exploring the Rx for Success. The Summit, a two-day conference offering business and partnership advice in a thoughtful workshop-style setting, takes place on June 14th – 15th at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, CA.

Don Jones, vice president of Global Strategy and Market Development for Qualcomm Life, will deliver a unique keynote, “Digital Health in the Hot Seat,” fielding questions from leading health care venture capitalist and blogger Lisa Suennen and the audience.

“With Qualcomm Life at the forefront, San Diego has become a hotbed of innovation in the digital health arena. We are thrilled that they’ve joined us as collaborators for such an important event,” said Jill Gilbert, Co-Producer of the Digital Health Summit.

The two-day event promises a deeper dive into the rapidly evolving world of technology and health care. Summit events include workshop-style sessions coupled with high-level discussions addressing digital health products and services, start-up advice, partnership workshops, health networks and more. Industry leaders will share current realities, insights and solutions to the many challenges facing digital health businesses today.

“This event reinforces our belief that partnership and collaboration are essential to the long-term growth and success of digital health as a growing segment,” said Don Jones. “And data access becomes an essential part of the analytics based health solutions helping consumers become better managers of their own health.”

Additionally, the Summit has added three new, can’t miss sessions:

• New Doubleheader Session: Selling Successfully to Consumers AND Winning the FDA’s Approval with Stuart Blitz, Director of Worldwide Commercial Development, and Joe Flaherty, Senior Manager of Strategic Marketing from Agamatrix, a leading digital health company that has made extraordinary progress in selling their devices to the number one pharma company, retail store and mail-order company.
• Breaking Through the Funding Clutter with Jack Young, director of Qualcomm Incorporated’s Qualcomm Life Fund.
• Reality Check: Costs, Regulations and Other Headaches with Greg LePeter, legal counsel at Qualcomm Life and lead by Rock Health CEO, Halle Tecco

Other Summer Summit highlights to include:

• Frost & Sullivan will release their latest digital health industry findings: The Top 20 Telehealth Markets.
• Rock Health will sponsor the RX Start Up Series and publish their “lucky to get your hands on handbook” Rock Health’s Startup Elements.
• Unique opportunity to Ask the Analyst in a new and compelling session.
• VIP Networking Cocktail Event: Socialize with industry movers and shakers.

Register for the event by visiting the application online at http://summersummit.digitalhealthsummit.com/registration/ and follow us on Twitter @dhsummit to stay informed.

For more information about speaking opportunities, sponsorship, exhibit area or press credentials, contact Jill Gilbert at jill.gilbert(at)digitalhealthsummit(dot)com.

About Living in Digital Times

An umbrella group focusing on lifestyles, Living in Digital Times looks at digital solutions throughout life’s stages, providing opportunities to show and grow businesses through a deep understanding of the needs of life’s different segments.

With a commitment to creating new and exciting venues, Living in Digital Times produces conferences, exhibits, websites and projects throughout the year that provide forums to bring together stakeholders in the digital age. Most recently, the group produced six expos and conference summits at the 2012 International CES, including: Kids@Play Summit; Mommy Tech Summit; Silvers Summit; Digital Health Summit; FitnessTech Summit; and HigherEdTECH Summit.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA— April 11, 2012 – Healthcare IT is on a continual expansion path, from the confines of traditional healthcare providers into consumer’s day-to-day lives.  This movement is supported by an onslaught of technology, from smart phone applications (apps) that track calories burned, to vital sign monitoring from the comfort of a senior citizens’ home. With an eye on assessing growth objectives and tracking trends, Frost & Sullivan has partnered with Living in Digital Times’ Digital Health Summer Summit to introduce the latest findings in this connected health space, with a specific focus on analyzing the top 20 telehealth markets by revenue opportunity and transformative potential.  The Summit takes place June 14 to 15, 2012 at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, California.

Frost & Sullivan’s Senior Industry Analyst Zachary Bujnoch will acquaint summit attendees with opportunities in the digital health industry during his presentation, “Identifying & Establishing Your Markets.”

“Whether it’s mHealth, video telemedicine or remote monitoring, the new opportunities for digital health are plentiful, but are often quite convoluted or confusing, which results in limited growth,” said Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst Zachary Bujnoch. “However, if you follow the money, the lines are being drawn, showing an increasing number of telehealth markets with distinct customer and business models, helping to dispel this market challenge.”

Attendees of the Summer Summit will benefit by incorporating knowledge of the key stakeholders, ensuring their organization’s novel technology meets consumer expectations and also aligns with physician and caregiver needs.  Connected health organizations should also ensure their solution maintains an interoperable quality within the existing infrastructure.

“There is no silver bullet for the problems that face our health system, but one of the most promising solutions comes from innovative technologies used by consumers, healthcare practitioners, and payees,” said Jill Gilbert, Co-producer of the Digital Health Summit.  “We are thrilled to have Frost & Sullivan as our partner. Their expertise will arm attendees with priceless insight into cutting edge growth opportunities to drive value and maximize success in the marketplace.”

The partnership with the Digital Health Summer Summit is within Frost & Sullivan’s Connected Health program. For more information on the Summer Digital Health Summit, please visit www.digitalhealthsummit.com.

About Living in Digital Times

An umbrella group focusing on lifestyles, Living in Digital Times looks at digital solutions throughout life’s stages, providing opportunities to show and grow businesses through a deep understanding of the needs of life’s different segments.

With a commitment to creating new and exciting venues, Living in Digital Times produces conferences, exhibits, websites, and projects throughout the year that provide forums to bring together stakeholders in the digital age. Most recently, the group produced six expos and conference summits at the 2012 International CES, including: Kids@Play Summit; Mommy Tech Summit; Silvers Summit; Digital Health Summit; FitnessTech Summit; and HigherEdTECH Summit.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join our Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 – Living in Digital Times today announced their summer event, Digital Health Summit: Exploring the Rx for Success, will be held on June 14-15, 2012 at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, CA. On the heels of a sold out, wildly successful Digital Health Summit and Conference at CES 2012, the two day summit/expo will take a deep-dive look at the elements of a successful digital health venture. Living in Digital Times will take a broad look at many of the products, services and ideas that are creating a robust new industry to serve the healthcare market.

The scope and pervasive reach of the digital health market was reflected at CES’ Digital Health Summit this past January with speakers from companies as diverse as Ford Motor Company, OptumHealth, Life Technologies, Frost and Sullivan, Pfizer, Qualcomm, UnitedHealth Group, Audax and FitBit.

Digital Health Summit: Exploring the Rx for Success picks up on these game changers and more. It includes workshop-styled sessions coupled with essential high-level discussions addressing digital health products and services and how they will lead to better managed healthcare, patient/doctor communication, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery time, lowered costs for health insurance, early prevention and detection, digital patient information records, and medical attention over distances. The Summit is about education and equipping those individuals, companies and organizations with the tools and connections they need to operate effectively.

“The digital health revolution may be in full swing, but there’s a lot that needs to happen in order to create a new ecosystem for healthier outcomes,” said Jill Gilbert, co-producer of The Digital Health Summit. “Whether you’re looking at the skyrocketing costs of medical care, the rise of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, or the complications of an aging population, one thing is clear: the status quo is no longer an option.”

Mark your calendars for this important next step in the world of digital health. Register for the June event by visiting the application online http://digitalhealthsummit.com/summer-summit/ and follow us on Twitter @dhsummit to stay informed.

For more information about speaking opportunities, sponsorship, exhibit area or press credentials, contact Jill Gilbert at jill.gilbert@digitalhealthsummit.com.

Review press coverage from the Digital Health Summit held at CES 2012 at http://digitalhealthsummit.com/news/ and watch the videos from the conference: http://digitalhealthsummit.com/2012-videos/.

About Living in Digital Times

An umbrella group focusing on lifestyles, Living in Digital Times looks at digital solutions throughout life’s stages, providing opportunities to show and grow businesses through a deep understanding of the needs of life’s different segments.

Living in Digital Times produced six expos and conference summits at the 2012 International CES that showcased the latest innovations in different lifestyle segments: Kids@Play Summit; Mommy Tech Summit; Silvers Summit; Digital Health Summit; FitnessTech Summit; and HigherEdTECH Summit.

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