The West Wireless Health Institute, which wants to become a beacon for mobile health innovations that can help drive down the cost of healthcare, is off to a good start. Get the latest on their funding and partnerships, along with the rest of the news about San Diego’s technology innovations:
—The Gary and Mary West Foundation donated another $25 million to their namesake research center, the West Wireless Health Institute, bringing their total donation for the new nonprofit health research center to $90 million. At an open house in San Diego last week, institute officials also announced new partnerships with Cisco Systems, Medtronics, and CareFusion, as well as the Carlos Slim Health Institute in Mexico City. During the evening soiree, CEO Don Casey said the institute also has an opportunity to set up a venture fund that could help develop new wireless technologies to drive down health costs.
—San Diego-based Covario, which provides Web-based software analytics that measures the effectiveness of online marketing and search engine optimization, has added a “Social Media Insight” feature to help customers measure their social media buzz. One goal of the added capability is to help big companies measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns by using consumer posts on social media websites as a barometer.
—Boatracs, the San Diego company founded in 1990 to develop Qualcomm-based data communications and vessel monitoring technologies for the maritime industry, says it is now an independent and privately held company. Boatracs spun itself out from AirIQ, its former Toronto-based corporate parent.
—Venture investors in Northern California provided about $6 million in funding for a new fabless semiconductor startup in San Diego—and when was the last time we heard about one of those? Pervasive, founded by
