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Qualcomm mobile health collaborations seek better care continuum

Qualcomm Life is collaborating with three companies – ResMed, King’s Daughters Medical Center and CareCentrix […]

Qualcomm Life is collaborating with three companies – ResMed, King’s Daughters Medical Center and CareCentrix – to develop mobile health solutions that seek to provide continuity in care.

Using Qualcomm Life’s 2netTM and HealthyCirclesTM platforms, the companies will have access to “one of the largest open and interoperable mHealth ecosystems,” according to an announcement from Qualcomm that was made at its annual Connect 2014 conference in San Diego.

The platform will include medical device, applications and healthcare service companies. Qualcomm Life is “liberating” health and biometric data that will assist the three companies with clinical context and tools that will help care coordination, particularly with transitional care and chronic care management.

“With more than 400 companies in the Qualcomm Life Ecosystem, we are uniquely positioned to reinvent health care by shifting connected health solutions from a novel technology to a standard of care,” Rick Valencia, senior vice president and general manager, Qualcomm Life, said in a statement.

San Deigo-based ResMed, which develops medical equipment for sleep-disordered breathing and other respiratory disorders, is using Qualcomm Life’s technology to streamline transitions of care from the hospital and into the home. It’s integrating the 2net Hub and platform with its own AstralTM 100 and Astral 150 life support ventilators to capture and transfer “near real-time biometric data” to the HealthyCircles care coordination platform. Additionally, ResMed is using HealthyCircles in combination with its airway pressure device to enable providers to closely monitor patients to prevent hospital re-admissions.

Kentucky-based King’s Daughters Medical Center is working with Qualcomm Life to deploy and scale its health services to manage employers’ high-risk patient populations with complex care needs in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. It will focus on patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, with integrated care coordination and management services that increase touch points in rural areas to link community-based providers through the 2net and HealthyCircles platforms.

Connecticut-based CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll said collaborating with Qualcomm Life will help it manage health plans and providers “in the post-acute arena” and in improving home care.

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