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Orlando Portale will head AirStrip’s innovation advisory board

If you're going to have an innovation advisory board for a mobile health company, it helps to have someone who is very familiar with the product and also a big proponent of developing new applications for mobile health technology. Orlando Portale, the CIO for Palomar Health, is well positioned to head up Airstrip's newly formed board and help it advance its technology platform.

Update below If you’re going to have an innovation advisory board for a mobile health company, it helps to have someone who is very familiar with the product and also a big proponent of developing new applications for mobile health technology. Orlando Portale, the CIO for Palomar Health, is well suited to head up AirStrip’s newly formed board to help it advance its technology platform.

Portale invented Medical Information Anytime Anywhere, and Palomar sold the worldwide exclusive rights for the platform to AirStrip in 2012.

AirStripONE is a platform that makes remote patient monitoring possible for physicians by aggregating clinical data from vital signs, allergies, medications, medical images and lab results from disparate EMR systems in one screen for mobile devices and desktops.

Last year, Portale set up Glassomics, which describes itself as the world’s first incubator for healthcare applications and technology that run on wearable devices.

AirStrip CEO Alan Portela said in the statement that Portale would help the company expand the capabilities of AirStripONE to connect with and mobilize disease-specific body sensors, additional clinical decision support capabilities through advanced algorithms, and third-party analytics. Portale has also worked at Sun Microsystems where he was general manager of the Global Health Industry, the department head of applied clinical informatics at the University of Michigan, and executive director of M&A at WellPoint.

Update In an emailed comment Portela added: “Orlando will redouble our efforts to investigate and determine the suitability of complementary technologies from the academic research community, as well as early stage and established companies. We believe there is a wealth of externally sourced innovation opportunities in sensors, machine intelligence, and real time analytics that we can bolt on to AirStrip’s core technology that will significantly increase our value in the marketplace.”

In addition, AirStrip promoted its COO Dr. Matt Patterson to president. Patterson joined AirStrip in 2012 after working for McKinsey & Co., where he was a leader in the North American Healthcare practice’s strategy and operations engagements. He had also served as a U.S. Navy physician. He was the medical director of the Naval Special Warfare Center in San Diego — the training center for the U.S. Navy SEALs.

AirStrip has been in expansion mode in an effort to gain marketshare and advance product development. Earlier this year it acquired assets of fetal monitoring company Sense4Baby. Last month, it launched a collaboration with New Jersey-based PeriGen to include tools from its clinical decision support obstetrics technology in its platform to monitor mothers in labor. PeriGen’s technology mobilizes assessments and interpretations of fetal heart rate patterns.

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