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Wireless health combines San Diego tech firms.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-JUL-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Wireless health combines San Diego tech firms.(Opinion)

Article Excerpt
Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of visionaries from biotech, telecom and local organizations and institutions, San Diego is on the verge of becoming the epicenter for an exciting new growth industry--wireless health.

Wireless health combines the best of consumer electronics, telecom, biotech and wireless into mobile and cost efficient products for monitoring our health and wellbeing in new ways--anytime, anywhere and unobtrusively. Patients, providers, insurance companies and government agencies see its potential for 24-hour disease management, speeding the delivery of quality care while improving outcomes.

Controlling costs is another factor. The U.S. incidence of severe chronic diseases is fast outstripping population growth and driving health-care costs upward at 7 percent or more a year.

Expenditures are expected to climb even faster with the aging of the population. As a result, forces are under way on many fronts to develop and commercialize wireless health. The potential goes far beyond the old concept...

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