Dr. Eric J. Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI), will join Qualcomm chairman and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs during Jacobs' keynote at International CES on Friday, January 8, 2010, to highlight a variety of digital medical devices that offer physicians and consumers the ability to remotely monitor fitness, sleep, vital signs and pre-natal activity.
WWHI is one of the world's first medical research organizations dedicated to cutting the cost of health care by identifying, creating, validating and accelerating the use of wireless technologies to transform medicine.
"In the past decade we've seen the digitization of our entertainment, everything from music to books, but it is just a matter of time before the digitization of a much more consequential part of our lives, our health," said Topol, who is also the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and holder of the Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine. "We are in the midst of a great inflection point in medicine as powerful wireless technologies will enable the continuous observation of a person's physiology, and significant medical advances in genomics will give us a clear understanding of each person's biology. This extraordinary convergence of information potentiates our ability to truly render individualized medicine."
Topol, a cardiologist, genomics expert and the leading thought leader in the emerging mhealth industry, will highlight several products to help consumers track their own fitness and well-being, including DirectLife by Philips, the Fitbit Tracker and the Zeo personal sleep coach. He will also demonstrate several technologies that illustrate the impact of remote monitoring and digital medicine, including:
AirStrip OB(TM) (AirStrip Technologies) - AirStrip's state-of-the-art software solutions for remote patient monitoring give physicians the ability to remotely access real-time and historical waveforms and other critical patient data using mobile devices. AirStrip OB is the first FDA-cleared solution built from AirStrip's remote patient monitoring platform that enables remote monitoring of critical medical data from patients within a hospital's labor and delivery unit. AirStrip Critical Care(TM) and AirStrip Cardiology(TM) are pending FDA clearance.
Mobile Baby (Great Connection) - helps maternity clinics to offer digital delivery of ultrasound pictures and video to expecting parents and their friends and relatives. The product converts and delivers ultrasound pictures and video to mobile phones, email accounts and popular online social networks like Facebook. The system can also handle images from MR, CT and digital x-rays.