Among the
organizations presenting are senior management from WLSA members, including
Ascension Health, AT&T, CareFusion, Johnson & Johnson, OptumHealth, QUALCOMM
and St. Jude Medical, who will provide insights into their interest in the
field and best practices for incorporating innovative, new wireless
technologies into new products, applications and services, as well as how to
bring these to providers and patients.
“WLSA
created the Convergence Summit to bring key elements of the wireless health
community together to meet, share ideas and demonstrate new products and
solutions,” said Robert B. McCray, WLSA President & CEO. “Our goal is to
provide a forum that directly addresses emerging wireless technology in
healthcare and enables participants to gain a thorough understanding of how to
succeed in this dynamic market.”
The event
begins with the Investor’s Meeting and Triple
Tree I Award Program for Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance® on Day 1, followed by the
WLSA Convergence Summit on Day 2, and ends with Commercialization Day on Day 3.
The second
day (May 12) is reserved for the Convergence Summit, an invitation-only program
for C-level executives from WLSA members and featuring presentations by attendees
and moderated conversations between executive leadership and thought leaders
within the wireless, healthcare and convergence spaces. Among the themes and
questions to be addressed are:
- How can we convince physicians to adopt wireless and connected health innovation in the delivery of theirs services?
- How can the U.S. healthcare innovation community learn from the “frugal
innovation” of India and China?
- Where can we find significant adoption of wireless health innovation?
- How can we apply the lessons of online commerce, like Amazon.com, to
wireless health?
- Is Moore’s Law coming to healthcare? Can we leverage the cost curve to
reduce the cost of delivering more healthcare to more consumers?
- Does clinical innovation and business monetization need to begin in the
United States or will U.S. companies increasingly look to international
markets?
The third
day of the Summit, Commercialization Day, is open for general registration, and
features workshops facilitated by IDEO and Insight Product Development aimed at identifying
solutions to numerous industry challenges, including the clinical validation of
new technologies and tech-enabled services; modification of healthcare business
and payment models to support opportunities; and seamless integration of
products into consumers’ and patients’ daily lives.
Showcased
during the day will be:
- IDEO- and Insight-hosted interactive workshops focusing on issues
associated with innovative approaches to product definition, business
monetization and go-to-market strategies.
- These workshops will utilize actual case studies from pressing social
challenges, such as teen obesity and sleep disorders, for context. Participants
will leave with a toolkit of techniques that can be applied to any complex
problem, system or workflow.
- WLSA partners and others will share their products and services during
an end-of-the-day demo and reception.
Throughout
all three days of the Summit, global leaders in wireless healthcare and life
sciences industries will staff demo booths that provide product demonstrations
and informative presentations.
“The entire
conference will leverage the experiences and processes from other industries to
mitigate risk in our industry,” McCray said. “The sessions are designed to lead
attendees toward true innovation and to provide real value to their
organizations. It is our insight
that the initial shape of an important new market is driven by a relatively
small number of committed organizations and thought leaders. Our meetings are designed to identify
and bring the best wireless health leaders together in a quality setting to
enhance their discovery of business partners.”
For information or to register for WLSA’s 5th Annual Summit,
visit www.wirelesslifesciences.org or contact Andrea Jackson.
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The
Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA) is a special purpose trade organization
for innovators, globally relevant companies, scientists, physicians, and policy
makers. The WLSA is dedicated to creating value and improving health, globally,
through the convergence of communications technologies, consumers, caregivers
and all sectors of the life sciences and technology environment. WLSA partners
and companies all over the world are using wireless health innovations to
better manage chronic conditions, pre-empt disease and improve the lives of the
elderly and under-served populations around the world.
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