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 A Commitment to Connecting People and Information for a New Model of Care Today we face a worldwide growth in chronic conditions and an aging population that will place a potentially catastrophic burden on the healthcare system. Technology is the essential ingredient to evolving the current model of care and enabling seamless interaction and high quality information exchange throughout the complex healthcare system. Intel's Digital Health Group is helping accelerate healthcare quality improvement efforts around the world by delivering innovative, game changing, digital technologies that make it possible for people to protect and enhance their health on a continuous basis throughout their lives independent of location - from the hospital to the home to the human body. Our mission is to enable patients, their families and healthcare providers to connect to the right information at the right time so they can make better and more informed decisions about their health.A Unique Point of View As a world leader in technology, Intel is in a unique position to help advance healthcare, because only Intel provides a broad portfolio of key technology ingredients relevant to so many aspects of the system. It is this broad technology portfolio and the fact that we work with many diverse partners throughout the system, that allows us to take an unusually holistic approach to problem solving.Working Toward the Vision Intel's strategy to drive technology-enabled continuous health is focused on improving acute care in the institutional setting; advancing personal health technologies; accelerating progress of the biomedical research enterprise; and advancing standards and policies that enable innovation and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. Taken together, these efforts can enable a wide range of stakeholders to better connect people and information in ways that advance prevention, early detection, treatment success, caregiver support and independent living.Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.  First-generation telehealth solutions simply provide vital sign data to a single healthcare provider. But if you want to truly empower your patients with tools that make a difference in their health outcomes, McKesson’s next-generation solutions are the answer. With McKesson, you can effectively manage chronic care patients, sharing information with the right caregivers, regardless of their location. The data you collect provides effective trending and analysis – ultimately improving health outcomes at a lower total cost. Remote Patient Monitoring Personal Emergency Response System Call Center Management Software  Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is one of the world's biggest electronics companies, as well as the largest in Europe, with more than 161,000 employees in over 60 countries and sales in 2005 of $37.7 billion. Active in over sixty businesses, and with more than 115,000 registered patents, Philips is currently number 1 in the world for electric shavers and DVD recorders. Philips is also a global leader in lighting, in TV, video and audio products, and in medical diagnostic imaging, patient monitoring systems and healthcare informatics. The United States is a key market for Philips, accounting for more than $9 billion of the company’s worldwide sales in 2005. The medical division is the largest Philips business in the United States, accounting for more than 50% of all Philips employees. As a leading supplier of medical equipment and related services, Philips Medical Systems offers a patient-focused approach to the healthcare market that makes sense for today’s clinical care environments. An approach based on elegant system design that matches advanced technology to the changing needs of clinicians and patients. With Philips solutions, highly sophisticated technology becomes less intrusive, more intuitive and enhances the healthcare experience for both clinicians and patients. Recognizing trends in rising healthcare costs and aging demographics, Philips is setting new standards for the industry. Philips' Consumer Health and Wellness activity is an important part of our roadmap for growth in the evolving home healthcare market, where consumers are becoming increasingly active in managing their own health and wellness. Philips’ many years of understanding consumers and their needs have led it to identify ‘healthcare at home’ as a key sector, with products and technologies such as the HeartStart Home Defibrillator, [Lifeline] personal response services and emergency call systems, as well as the interactive telemedicine healthcare system called Motiva.Launched in the U.S. in May 2006, Philips Motiva is a TV-based remote patient management platform for automating the delivery of care for chronic conditions such as heart failure and diabetes. Motiva uses the home TV to actively engage patients with personalized daily interactions and healthcare content, educating and motivating them to make lifestyle modifications that can lead to long-term behavior change. The Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator is the first and only home defibrillator approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use without a prescription. HeartStart Home Defibrillators are safe and easy to use, allowing people to respond quickly to help victims of sudden cardiac arrest – one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. In addition, Philips is pioneering the use of its Ambient Experience design in clinical settings, allowing children and adult patients to choose their own viewing experience during diagnostic imaging tests. Experience what Philips can offer to meet your needs in radiology, cardiology, oncology, women’s health, emergency and critical care, and molecular imaging.
 Continua Health Alliance is a collaborative industry organization, dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology to create new health care solutions. The Continua Health Alliance envisions personal telehealth systems that combine diverse products and technologies to enable better personal health care for people worldwide.Mission: Fostering independence through establishing a system of interoperable personal telehealth solutions that empower people and organizations to better manage health and wellness. Objectives: The Continua Health Alliance is comprised of technology, medical device and health care industry leaders dedicated to making personal telehealth a reality. Our objectives include: • Developing design guidelines that will enable vendors to build interoperable sensors, home networks, telehealth platforms, and health and wellness services. • Establishing a product certification program with a consumer-recognizable logo signifying the promise of interoperability across certified products. • Collaborating with government regulatory agencies to provide methods for safe and effective management of diverse vendor solutions. • Working with leaders in the health care industries to develop new ways to address the costs of providing personal telehealth systems. Continua Health Alliance Administration 3855 SW 153rd Drive Beaverton, Oregon 97006 USA Phone: (503)619-0867 Fax: (503)644-6708 Email: Admin@ContinuaAlliance.org Website: www.continuaalliance.org  QUALCOMM
provides its partners in the healthcare industry with wireless communications
solutions including managed wireless services. The Company is driving
the convergence of medical devices and cellular phones, the interaction
of cellular devices with biosensors for health monitoring applications,
and the operability of existing medical devices with cellular communications
technology. QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com)
is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless
communication products and services based on the Company‚s CDMA
digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, California, QUALCOMM
is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a 2004 FORTUNE 500® company
traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.QUALCOMM Richard Lobovsky, Director, Business Development, Email: rlobovsk@qualcomm.com Tel: (212)786-7626 Mobile: (917)312-3259 Website: www.qualcomm.com  OPTICON SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTCARE. Opticon understands that the Healthcare industry faces extremely complex challenges ranging from federal regulations, competition for resources to maintaining a high quality of care in the face of ever shrinking budgets. Healthcare administrators have worked diligently over recent years to bring automation and state of the art technology to meet these challenges. Often times however, these technological solutions and automation does not bring the return on investment expected, because they require changes in process and infrastructure. For over twenty years, Opticon has been providing technology solutions to Healthcare organizations that bring exceptional ROI, and are implemented with a low cost of ownership.Opticon has a long held philosophy that our scanning and data collection solutions should fit within the overall technology infrastructure, not vice versa. You will never see an Opticon scanning or data collection solution require special add-on or companion technology. This is because Opticon designs its scanners and data collectors to easily fit in environments without the need for change to accommodate Opticon. Opticon is also at the forefront of government regulation and industry standards. Opticon is a pioneer in bringing innovations such as Bluetooth encryption, a full RoHS compliant product line and low energy emissions to its scanners and data collectors. If you are implementing automation, technology or barcode scanning you should be talking to Opticon. With expertise in patient care solutions, laboratory automation and pharmacy automation, Opticon will allow you to focus on what you do best... saving lives. Stacy Clay, Director of Marketing Opticon Inc. 11400 SE 8th Street, Ste 410 Bellevue, WA 98004 Direct: 425-651-2124 Fax: 425.454.0865 Website: www.opticonUSA.com  Pill PhoneMillions of consumers trust The Pill Book by Random House to provide official, FDA-approved drug information plus guidelines from leading pharmacists. Each drug is profiled in a concise, readable, and easy-to-understand entry, making The Pill Book the leading home-based reference for prescription drugs. VOCEL now offers the Pill Phone which links the content of the Pill Book with the medication reminders using push technology. Subscribers can reference medications at the push of a button, as well as set medication reminders. The Pill Phone also includes a function for guardians and care providers, who can receive SMS alerts if the patient misses a dose. Mobile Diary VOCEL with its patent pending technology is revolutionizing clinical trials with a new diary that increases effectiveness and compliance tracking of drug trials for pharmaceutical companies. VOCEL's solution will also improve consumer compliance with medical regimens prescribed by their doctors. VOCEL's MobileDiary replaces paper data collection and manual processing of drug trial information to enhance compliance, provide fast and accurate feedback, and create and retain secure digital records. VOCEL's MobileDiary pushes reminders and questions to drug trial participants and collects information instantly. All transactions are electronically signed, date and time stamped, and digitally recorded, all done with a mobile phone that patients are already accustomed to carrying and using. Nate Alder, Director of Latin America and Australia Operations 113400 Sabre Springs Parkway, Suite 255 San Diego, CA 92128 Mobile: 858-395-2776 Office: 858-956-2962 Fax: 858-679-1920 Website: http://www.VOCEL.com
 Better
Health Technologies (BHT)
is an eHealth and disease management consulting and business
development firm. BHT advises clients on strategy, business models,
and partnerships. Clients include a wide range of established and pre-IPO
organizations, including Samsung Electronics (Samsung Advanced Institute
of Technology, Digital Solution Center, Global Research Group), Medtronic,
Siemens Medical Solutions, Joslin Diabetes Center, Varian Medical Systems,
and the Disease Management Association of America.Better Health Technologies, LLC Vince Kuraitis, Principal Strategy, partnerships, business models Disease management & eHealth Tel:(208) 395-1197 Fax: (208) 361-0039 Email: vincek@bhtinfo.com Website: www.bhtinfo.com E-CareManagement News: www.bhtinfo.com/pastissues.htm  Headquartered
in Pittsburgh, PA, BodyMedia is one of the world's leaders in
wearable body monitoring products and technologies. The company develops
accurate and convenient ways to keep track of the health and healthy
behaviors of people outside of a clinical setting and in the context
of their everyday lives. BodyMedia's sensor technology and their
many applications are a proven, innovative and affordable means for
monitoring physiological and lifestyle information such as energy expenditure,
caloric intake, sleep, and adherence to clinical and fitness programs.BodyMedia Astro Teller, CEO Tel: 412.288.9901 x 1111 Email: astro@bodymedia.com Website: www.bodymedia.com  Headquartered in Switzerland, Card Guard AG is a leading healthcare technology and solutions company, specializing in advanced wireless biometrics, and telehealth systems and monitoring systems. Integrating compelling software, technology and services, Card Guard is focused on delivering the next generation health care delivery platforms for consumers, home health and disease management. for high-risk and chronically ill patients, eHealth and homecare providers, and wellness / fitness markets.Card Guard is listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange, and has has wholly-owned subsidiaries in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, and its R&D center in Israel. US subsidiaries include: LifeWatch, Inc. a leading US-based 24/7/365 cardiac monitoring service provider; Instromedix, a US-based manufacturer of telecardiology products and Sensei, a joint venture with Humana developing a consumer health and wellness platform.
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