introduce the healthcare industry to wireless technologies,” Jones writes. “We built out a phenomenal ecosystem of university programs, master degrees for engineers and physicians, investment funds, innovation programs, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize, FDA relationships, standards bodies, regulatory and policy groups, and much more.”
At tomorrow’s headliner event, “my topic will be that mobility in healthcare is here to stay, connectivity made it happen and now the challenge is to get a network effect,” he added. “Part of that network effect will be driven by clinical and economic validation of connected digital health solutions—hence my focus on digital health clinical trials at the Scripps Translational Science Institute.
“Pharma, medical device [makers] and health payers all accept clinical validation as a necessary hurdle to adoption and reimbursement. Increasingly, consumer electronic companies, telcos, and even international food and supplement companies are planning and conducting clinical trials of their digital health products.”
At Scripps new digital medicine center, Steinhubl is overseeing the design and execution of the mHealth technology clinical trials. The Qualcomm Foundation provided a $3.75-million grant to Scripps Health in 2012 to help establish the program, and some additional funding came from $29 million that the National Institutes of Health awarded through its Clinical and Translational Science Award grant last fall.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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