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Zephyr and Qualcomm are working together to reduce patient risk in the hospital and at home.
Wireless Reach was honored to be selected by the GBCHealth Awards Judging Panel as a “Commended Program” in the Partnership/Collective Action category in this year’s annual GBCHealth Awards.
For more than a decade, GBCHealth has been presenting the Business Action on Health Awards to companies that exemplify a spirit of innovation and help set the agenda for addressing today's most important global health challenges.
I have been the Qualcomm Wireless Reach project manager for our Wireless Access for Health (WAH) program in the Philippines since 2009, so I was thrilled to participate in an event recently in Manila to celebrate the project’s success and announce expansion plans.
How many things look exactly the same as they did 10, maybe 20 years ago? What about 50? If you’re struggling for an answer, just turn to the public education system. While most schools remain in an industrial era model, the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that 65 percent of grade school kids will end up in jobs that haven’t been created yet.[1] To add to that, classroom sizes are continuing to grow as a majority of states are spending less per pupil than they did before the recession.[2]
Happy Earth Day!
Did you know that today marks the 43rd anniversary of what many consider the founding of the modern environmental movement? On April 22, 1970, nearly 20 million Americans held coast-to-coast rallies in support of Mother Nature.
Through my job at Qualcomm Wireless Reach, I travel to some of the most interesting and beautiful corners of the globe to see first-hand how mobile technology is transforming lives.
Earlier this month, San Diego hosted the 2013 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) conference, themed as Audacious Leadership: Disruptive, Innovative Leaders are Defining a New Vision and are Building 21st Century Learning Environments.
Last week, the health information technology industry met at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans. My company, Zephyr Technology, exhibited its solutions as part of the Qualcomm pavilion, to demonstrate how far we have come in bringing affordable patient monitoring to hospitals and into patients’ homes.
I attended Mobile World Congress for the first time this year, and the energy and enthusiasm was palpable. More than 72,000 attendees from 200-plus countries traveled to Barcelona to see inspiring and innovative advances in mobile technology.
Last month, I attended the Inaugural International Forum on Women, Information and Communication Technologies, and Development (WICTAD) in Washington, D.C., and had the chance to discuss Qualcomm’s dedication to closing the mobile phone gender gap.
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the Vodafone Foundation and London Business School’s Mobile for Good Summit in London, which focused on the transformative power of mobile technology in communities around the globe. For me, the event solidified the notion that mobile is more than an enabler; it is a multiplier and game changer that cuts across all sectors, including healthcare, education, and entrepreneurship.
“The doctor told me that soon I will be able to see without my glasses!” said one of the children participating in the Mobile Vision Project who has amblyopia. Sometimes called “lazy eye,” amblyopia is the most common cause of vision impairment in childhood. Detected early, amblyopia is treatable. Left untreated, however, it can cause lifelong disability.
mHealth Summit 2012 in DC explores that many ways mobile technologies are fundamentally changing the way health care is experienced.
Guest blogger Christopher Tan shares his thoughts on Grameen winning the notable award.
The Women in Business Mentoring Program puts budding female entrepreneurs in contact with experienced and knowledgeable mentors.
In 2010, Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach initiative helped launch the Mobile Health Information System (MHIS) project to improve the ability of health care workers to care for their patients.
Through decades of research, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) has documented the importance of collaboration in enabling teachers to improve their practice. Often, however, the norm for teachers in the United States is to work in isolation, cut off from colleagues and from technology that can help them access resources and expertise. This isolation is especially detrimental for new teachers, who are at the highest risk for leaving the profession.
Each year, an astonishing 7.6 million children around the world die before their fifth birthday. The heartbreaking fact is that a large majority of these deaths are preventable. For the first time in history, the technology and the knowledge now exist to address this terrible problem by bringing life-saving interventions, even to those that live in the hardest-to-reach areas.
Midwives in the Philippines now have access to a set of mobile health applications, thanks to a newly-expanded project by Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach™ initiative, the Philippines Department of Health and the Tarlac Provincial Health Office.
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