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The West Health Institute is an independent,
non-profit 501(c)(3) medical research organization whose mission is to lower health care costs by developing innovative patient-centered solutions that deliver the right care at the right place at the right time.

This is accomplished by conducting innovative medical research, educating key stakeholders and advocating on behalf of patients. Solely funded by pioneering philanthropists Gary and Mary West, it is part of West Health, which includes the West Health Policy Center, West Health Investment Fund and West Health Incubator. The Institute is located in San Diego, California, the global center for health care innovation.

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A new sensory system

May

San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Avalon’s GSK Deal, Illumina, & More

May

Experts: Government 'struggling' with medical apps

Apr

Grossman named CEO at Sense4Baby

Apr

Sense4Baby Raises $4 Million

Apr

Sense4Baby Receives $4M

Apr

Sense4Baby raises $4M, hires new CEO

Apr

Sense4Baby gets new leader, funding

Apr

HHS workgroup could shape mHealth regulation

Apr

Health IT workgroup to discuss patient safety, innovation, and regulatory efficiency

Apr

When It Comes to the Future of Wireless Sensors in Health Care: The Sky's the Limit (podcast)

Apr

The Motley Fool: Could This Idea Cut $35 Billion from Health Care Costs?

Apr

WHI Comments to FCC Regarding Use of Small Cells in 3.5GHz Band

Apr

Podcast: Will Regulation Dampen Digital Health Innovation

Mar

Interoperability Could Result in $30B Savings

Mar

EHR Integration Transforming Health Care Tech

Mar

San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Health IT, Illumina, & More

Mar

West Health: Device interoperability could save billions

Mar

6 areas where device interoperability could save millions

Mar

Study Says Medical Device Interoperability Could Save $30B a Year

Mar

Can medical device interoperability save $30 billion per year?

Mar

Improved Device Interoperability Could Save $30B, Report Says

Mar

Medical app industry puts pressure on FDA

Mar

Press Release: New analysis by West Health Institute finds medical device interoperability could save more than $30 billion a year

Mar

Improved med device interoperability could save $30B in health costs

Mar

Press Release: West Health Institute demonstrates research advances in medical device interoperability to lower the cost of health care

Feb

Mobile health: Can it save money for federal healthcare?

Feb

Dr. Joe Smith's Medscape Blog: Axioms of Change for Health Care

Feb

Former Director Dr. Eric Topol on NBC’s Rock Center

Jan

West Health Institute Submits Meaningful Use Comments to HHS

Jan

AAMI Releases Healthcare Technology Interoperability Summit Report

Jan

Investors Flirt With Digital Health But Avoid Serious Commitment

Jan

What will it take for docs to use apps?

Jan

Can the Kinect Help Heal Wounded Veterans?

Dec

30 under 30: Science and Healthcare – Forbes

Dec

Wi-Fi Is Key to Curb Hospital Readmissions, Improve Care – San Diego Business Journal

Dec

Car healthcare arrangements? Incredibly better than our own

Dec

More than a dozen thoughts on 12-12-12 -- Medscape

Dec

Press Release: West Health launches American Journal of Preventive Medicine Supplement focused on health care cost crisis at mHealth Summit

Dec

Talk: West Health Launches AJPM Supplement on Lowering the Cost of Health Care

Dec

West Health @ mHealth

Nov

West Health IDEA Series: Conversations in Health Care

Nov

Wireless leaders talk about hospital implementation

Nov

West Health Blog: Helping Liberate Health Care Data Graphically with HHS

Nov

Reflexion Raises $4.25M for Kinect-Based Physical Therapy Software

Oct

West Health spinoff uses Kinect platform

Oct

Reflexion Health Raises $4.5M to Advance Idea for ‘Prescribed Software’

Oct

West Health puts $4.25M into rehab technology

Oct

Prescription software developer raises $4.25M for physical therapy program

Oct

Reflexion Health Raises $4.25M

Oct

Press Release: West Health Institute licenses Kinect-based physical therapy technology to Reflexion Health; West Health Investment Fund makes $4.25 million investment

Oct

West Health's Dr. Joe Smith interviewed on WNPR's Conversations on Health Care (iTunes)

Oct

Sense4Baby Gets Funding For Wireless Fetal Monitoring

Oct

West Health spins off wireless fetal monitor Sense4Baby

Oct

Seeing our Reflexion in the news

Oct

Video: Physical Therapy Done with Video Game Technology

Oct

First Microsoft Kinect PT app to go into clinical trials

Oct

Sense4Baby is first health tech spin off from West Health Institute incubator

Sep

Institute Collaborates with Kinect-Based System for Physical Therapy

Sep

Kinect Can Help Doctors Monitor Your Physical Rehab From Home

Sep

Press Release: West Health Institute Unveils New Kinect-based Physical Therapy Technology, Launches Research with Naval Medical Center SD

Sep

FCC Chair Recognizes Sense4Baby at MHealth Task Force Meeting

Sep

Sense4Baby Is Incubator’s First Tenant

Sep

Press Release: Sense4Baby, Inc. Licenses Wireless Fetal Monitor System in West Health Institute’s First Technology Transfer

Sep

Press Release: West Health Builds Government Affairs Team with Bipartisan Senate Leadership Staff Hires

Sep

Nicholas J. Valeriani Appointed Chief Executive of West Health

Aug

Scripps medical building gets ‘universal’ wireless network

Aug

Scripps medical building region’s first with universal wireless

Jul

Medicine Needs Frugal Innovation

Jul

Draft Guidance for Mobile Medical Applications

Jul

WWHI_CommentstoMedAppsGuidance_18October2011.pdf

Digitizing the Health-Care World: We've Come A long Way, But Still Have Far to Go

Jun

Press Release: WWHI Applauds Passage of Bill to Streamline FDA Medical Device Approval Process

Jun

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Applauds De Novo provision

Jun

FCC Hosts mHealth Summit

Jun

Physicians could see more medical devices going mobile

Jun

CHCF Data Design Award Announced at Health "Datapalooza

Jun

Care Innovations Summit 2012 Recap Now Available

Jun

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Joins Forces with the US Department of Health and Human Services to Unveil Innovators in Residence Program

Jun

HHS and West Wireless Partner to Kickstart Health App Development

Jun

Broadcasting live from you: Better Health Care

Jun

FCC, medical leaders hold mHealth summit to discuss mobile medical device technology

Jun

Press Release: WWHI Partners with HHS to Launch Innovators in Residence Program

Jun

West Wireless Health Institute Hires Currie

Jun

Wireless devices incite 'Medical Spring'

Jun

Dr. Joe Smith featured in video interview

Jun

West Wireless Health names senior VP

May

FCC announcement is first step toward widespread MBAN adoption

May

West Wireless Health names new VP of government affairs

May

Press Release: WWHI Names Rodger Currie as Senior VP of Government Affairs

May

Wireless medical monitors to transform patient care

May

FCC Agrees to Wireless Spectrum for Medical Uses

May

WWHC Applauds FCC Approval of Wireless Spectrum for MBAN

May

West Wireless Hires Currie

May

FCC’s approval of wireless spectrum for healthcare would unchain patients from hospital beds, transforming care

May

WWHI: Proposed delays and moratorium on FDA guidance for #mhealth will slow innovation, delay access.

May

Recasting Roles: New Models and Relationships in the Age of Healthcare Reform

May

WWHI: Proposed delays and moratorium on FDA guidance for #mhealth will slow innovation, delay access.

May

Kaufmann's Valuing Health Care: Improving Productivity and Quality

Apr

Siri Says You Have Tuberculosis

Apr

Paging Dr. Eric Topol: 10 Minutes with a Healthcare Revolutionary

Apr

Checking the pulse on connected healthcare

Apr

San Diegan Leads List of Nation’s Influential Physicians

Apr

Podcast: Dr. Eric Topol discusses how technology is radically reshaping healthcare (9:12) – Modern Healthcare

Apr

Increased big data access could help lower health costs

Apr

2012 Johns Hopkins CBID Design Day Keynote

Apr

Donald M. Casey Jr. Joins Cardinal Health as CEO of Medical Segment

Apr

West Wireless CEO joins Cardinal Health

Apr

West Wireless CEO joins Cardinal Health

Apr

WHPC Applauds FDA Innovation Pathway 2.0

Apr

Advancing Wireless Medical Device Interoperability: Overview of Current Efforts

Mar

Doctors' Smartphones And iPads May Be Distracting

Mar

West Wireless Health Institute CEO Don Casey steps down

Mar

West Wireless Institute: aggressively advancing the mHealth ecosystem, interview CMO Joe Smith, MD

Mar

CEO of West Wireless Nonprofit Resigning

Mar

Breaking: Don Casey resigns as CEO of West Wireless

Mar

Press Release: CEO Carries Low-Cost Health Care Message to Business Community

Mar

Technological Breakthroughs in Mobile Health

Mar

Medical-Grade Wireless Networking

Feb

Morning Read: Non-Profit designing free Wi-Fi architecture for hospitals

Feb

Six hospitals deploy West's medical grade wireless

Feb

National health care coalition develops free reference architecture for medical-grade wireless infrastructure

Feb

West Wireless announces open infrastructure framework for hospitals

Feb

Press Release: WWHI CEO named to Reagan-Udall Foundation Board

Feb

West Wireless Health Council Creating Open Architecture Framework for Hospitals to Work Seamlessly Together

Feb

Press Release: Hospital Leaders Champion IT Solutions to Lower Health Care Costs

Feb

Institute develops wireless framework

Feb

Healthcare Facilities Adopt Framework for Wireless Technology

Feb

Collaboration Delivers on Pregnancy Care

Feb

Healthcare Facilities Adopt Framework for Wireless technology

Feb

Be My Wireless Baby

Feb

West Wireless Health Institute to Study Portable Fetal Monitoring Device

Jan

Use of cutting edge technology in favor of pregnant women from rural communities

Jan

Leveraging the frugal innovations of mobile health

Jan

West Wireless to test Sense4Baby in Mexico

Jan

San Diego Life Sciences Roundup: Illumina, Sequenom, Acutus, & More

Jan

West Wireless institute testing portable fetal monitor

Jan

West Wireless Health Institute studies Sense4Baby™ impact in Mexico

Jan

Press Release: WWHI Launches Groundbreaking Study on Sense4Baby™ Fetal Monitoring Device in Mexico

Jan

Press Release: West Health Policy Center Launches Today

Jan

As Smartphones Get Smarter, You May Get Healthier

Jan

WWHI Commends ACP for Action...

Jan

Less than one percent of hospitals fully use tablets

Jan

The road ahead for health games

Dec

SD philanthropists Gary & Mary West: Gifts that keep on giving

Dec

In health technology, an enthusiasm gap between startups and doctors

Dec

mHealth moves to accountable care, not just tech, experts say

Dec

Sebelius, Topol laud smartphones at mHealth Summit

Dec

Topol tags genomic sequencing, mobile imaging as future of mHealth

Dec

Press Release: Dr. Eric Topol eBook Launch: Creative Destruction of Medicine

Dec

How Smartphone Apps and Social Networks Will Revolutionize Medicine

Dec

Eric Topol: Technology kills the 'doctor knows best' approach

Dec

Dr Topol: Haven’t used a stethoscope in 2 years

Dec

Dr. Eric Topol discusses this “extraordinary time” in medicine

Nov

Can Tech Innovation Really Lower the Cost of Healthcare?

Oct

Press Release: Gary and Mary West Announce Formation of the West Health Investment Fund, LLC

Oct

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Wireless Technology a Key to Improving Care, Lowering Nation’s $2.5 Trillion in Medical Spending, Exec Says

Oct

The Impact of Medical Device and Drug Regulation on Innovation, Jobs and Patients

Sep

WWHI_Testimony_Final_20110926.pdf

Press Release: WWHI, Center for Technology and Aging Join Health 2.0 for Innovation Exchange with Beacon Communities

Sep

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Mindy Tucker Fletcher as Vice President of Strategic Communications

Jul

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Dr. Robert Matthews as Chief Technology Officer and Michael Caponetto as Chief Financial Officer

Jun

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute to Host Second Health Care Innovation Day (HCI-DC)

Apr

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Awards $10K Developers Challenge in Conjunction with the Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2)

Apr

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Ed Cantwell to Serve as Senior Vice President

Feb

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Announces Development of Its First Engineering Prototype

Nov

Press Release: Health Care Innovation Day Brings Together Veterans Affairs, Industry and Government

Oct

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Awards $10K Developer Challenge at Health 2.0

Oct

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Dr. Mohit Kaushal to Serve as Executive Vice President of Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer

Sep

Wireless Health Glossary

Sep

WWHI_Glossary_Terms_September_2010.pdf

Press Release: Joint FCC/FDA Meeting on Wireless Medical Technology Drives Discussion Among Communities

Jun

Testimony of Dr. Joseph M. Smith to House Veterans' Affairs Health Subcomittee

Jun

Press Release: Congressman Mike Michaud (D-ME) Invites West Wireless Health Institute to Testify Before Veterans’ Affairs Health Subcommittee

Jun

Press Release: $25 Million Commitment to the West Wireless Health Institute Brings Total Funding from Gary and Mary West Foundation to Nearly $100 Million

Jun

Press Release: Carlos Slim Health Institute and West Wireless Health Institute Partner on Wireless Health Initiatives in U.S., Mexico & Latin America

Jun

Press Release: Gary and Mary West Foundation Grants $20 Million to Advance Engineering Efforts within the West Wireless Heath Institute

May

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Dr. Joseph Smith to Serve as Chief Medical and Science Officer

Apr

Press Release: West Wireless Health Institute Names Donald Casey to Serve as its CEO

Mar

Press Release: World Renowned Physician and Thought Leader Dr. Eric J. Topol to Highlight Digital Medicine Revolution at International CES 2010

Jan

Press Release: Dr. Eric Topol Named Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine

Jun

Dr. Eric Topol Joins Rock Stars in New Science Promotion Campaign

May

Wireless Solutions for Health Care Reform

Apr

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Press Release: Gary and Mary West Foundation Commits $45 Million to Create Wireless Health Institute

Mar

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The West Health Institute is an independent,
non-profit 501(c)(3) medical research organization whose mission is to lower health care costs by developing innovative patient-centered solutions that deliver the right care at the right place at the right time.