Healthcare Innovation -some exciting invitations

This first quarter of the year is proving very Scottish. Scottish Government agency HIENT have rather kindly invited me up to their table at the Scottish Annual Life Science Awards next week in Edinburgh. With over 800 people at this black tie event, it will be interesting to see how the impetus of P4 Digital - preventative, predictive, personalised and participatory healthcare - features at this more over-archingly themed event.

The following guests are on the same table as me, and I can't wait to ask them about their thoughts on mobile healthcare as a factor of health provisioning....

Prof. Irene McAra-McWilliam - Glasgow School of Art – Head of School of Design
Mike Biddle - Technology Strategy Board – Innovation Platform Leader – Assisted Living
Tim Wing - GE - Clinical Information Systems - Manager Northern Europe
John MacKenzie - GE - Country Manager
Sarah Sanders - Vodafone – Global Commercial Manager
Nicola McLaughlin - Vodafone – Category Marketing Manager – Public Sector
George Crooks - NHS 24 - Chief Operating Officer
Lindsey Moodie - Centre for Health Science – Business Development Manager
Campbell Grant - Sitekit – Managing Director
Elaine Mead - NHS Highland – Chief Operating Officer
Moira Mackenzie - Joint Improvement Team, Scottish Government - Telecare Programme Manager
David Kelly - Albasoft - CEO
Selly Saini - LifeScan - Early Phase Development
Alex Paterson - HIE - Chief Executive Andrew Fowlie - NHS Grampian, Moray Community Health & Social Care Partnership - General Manager Steven Dodsworth - HIE - Head of Life Sciences
Dyan Berry - HIE - Marketing and Comms Coordinator

I'll be back up to Edinburgh for a hen do in early March, and then back up to Fort William in the 'longest-ever-Easter-holidays-plus-THE-WEDDING-bankholiday' in April when I do a Hebridean island hop on the tandem. That, married with all the haggis which has been going around lately has set the 1Q11 up nicely with a Scottish feel.

On the 1st March I am heading to Manchester for the launch of the Innovation and Research Workstreams of the European mHealth Alliance (EuMHA). The members of EuMHA include healthcare providers, research institutes, industry and alliances whose aim is to support and promote the wider adoption of healthcare and wellbeing (including sports and fitness) products, services, applications and innovation across Europe

The event will be chaired jointly by Professor Chris Taylor, University of Manchester (leading the Research Workstream) and David McCarron, Intel Corporation (leading the Innovation workstream) and is invite only.

Guests from key industry, academic,healthcare providers,and policy-making organisations in the mobile eco-system in Europe are invited to join the event which will provide an opportunity to help shape the mHealth agenda for Europe, to meet some of the key actors in mHealth in Europe and to work together with EuMHA members on developing plans for research and innovation activity. I'm looking forward to working with the attendees and hearing ideas on how to move mobile healthcare forward...

Mobile Healthcare News - Prices and Positivity!

Good news! We are significantly re-launching our mobile healthcare industry summit with new more inclusive pricing and a focus on positive commercial activity. Ie. What's really happening now in mobile healthcare? We will bring these case studies forward and then follow up with discussions around commercial activity and implementation so that partners can work on future collaboration. The incentive though is less on talk and more on action as it's time to roll up our sleeves and get going - and with the event moved to the heart of EU regulation, we hope to bring you a couple of commissioners to elaborate on changes needed to make health innovation possible and incentivised.

So,

• New delegate fee:  of €599
• Dates:
  20-23^rd September 2011, Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Brussels
• Purpose: Bringing Positive Commercial Case Studies in Mobile Healthcare Forward

Announcing Our All New Event Features and Content for 2011 – Bringing You The Positive Movements in Mobile Healthcare in Mature Markets

·         New! Changed pricing for 2011 – lower delegate fee to ensure total ecosystem attendance and discussion

·         New!  Endorsed by, and co-located with, the European mHealth Alliance annual meet to connect you with the hub of global mobile healthcare business  

·         New! Focused and exclusive workshop on cracking mobile healthcare commercialisation, with reduced entry fee to register

·         New! Dedicated event content focus on the positive commercial mobile healthcare case studies and business practices which are taking place NOW!

·         New! Venue destination of Brussels, bringing you direct to the heart of European regulatory and business decision making.

·         New! 2011 agenda setting keynotes from international health insurers, patient groups, and EU Commission regulators at the highest level

·         New! Expanded exhibition floor with demos of live services and devices, plus experts on-hand to discuss integration, day-to-day operation, and roll-out

I am really excited about evolving the event further to support the real commercial activity of mobile health!

Alice Macklin's Software and Services Run Down 26/01/11

 Guest Editorship - Alice Macklin, Senior Conference Researcher, Software and Services

managed services, mobile financial services, global messaging, mobile UX and more....

         

 1.       THE FINAL FRONTIER Google’s going into space! The Surrey Space Centre has decided to test Android in the most severe environment they know and, if it passes the test, they’re going to put it in charge of a satellite. That’s pretty cool.
2.       BIG BROTHER
Geofencing is apparently taking off in the States in quite a big way. A friendly event Chairman sent me this last week – T-Mobile’s latest location-based offering. The technology is very impressive, but if I’m honest I remain unconvinced. At the Smart Devices & User Experience event last November Nick Healey at Slash Design talked about the ‘creepy side of the personalisation line’ – is T-Mobile’s FamilyMap edging onto this ground? I’m certainly not comfortable with the idea of even my nearest and dearest knowing where I am at all times
3.       PLAYING BY EAR
I came across this whilst doing some research for our Global Messaging & VAS event in June. Clearly powered by witchcraft, it seems like a pretty awesome piece of technology.
4.       SHOW ME THE MONEY
eCommerce is very much on people’s minds at the moment, and with that comes the issue of security. I’ve had a lot of people tell me that mobile finance is just as secure as doing it online, if not more so simply because the medium makes consumers slightly nervous. It was pointed out by an article on SmartMoney, though, that paying by phone ‘nixes federal protections that allow you to dispute inaccurate credit card charges’. This is the first time I’ve heard that point raised – how much of a concern should it be?

MVNO Trends from Guest Editor

Our anonymous guest editor 'Ronnie' puts down his trends within the MVNO market....

1- Tekelec buying Blueslice to become an MVNE signalling the appealing proposition of working directly for MVNOs not just 'telecoms'

2- Top Billing companies like Orga Systems showing more and more interest in the growing number of MVNO’s globally

3- Big vendors like ZTE – back in action and focusing again on this market that they had temporarily shelved

4- The overall trend of traditional MVNO’s becoming MVNE’s, providing consultation services to big groups like retail conglomorates to help them deploy MVNO’s successfully

5- The massive MVNO trend  we are witnessing – everyone wants to be an MVNO it seems, Radio stations , ISP’s, retail companies, does the future hold a GUCCI or PRADA MVNO?

Handbags at dawn.



'How many minutes would you like with that exclusive luxury item?'



4G Wholesale Business Models - The next step in MVNO Connectivity?

Working on the MVNO Industry Summit in its tenth birthday year puts us in a priviliged position of industry overview and comparison. What we have seen and heard from the global companies involved in the MVNO industry is that mature markets are increasingly interested in data MVNO models - at their peak, running from a dedicated 4G network such as the one LightSquared is working hard to approve and launch. The trend in connected devices from Kindle to FDA approved (medical) product shows the immense potential for a sub-branded device running quietly as a third party through a network:



Hans '50 billion devices' Vestberg

 

In 10 years there will be 50 billion devices connected to the web, declared Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg.

Intel Estimates that by 2015 the world will have 15 billion connected devices up from 5 billion now.

Informa's estimate is a deal more modest, but the potential for 4G Wholesale services is clear, and we will be replicating that by adding a US event to our MVNO series in the 2nd half of the year. To get involved, contact me at sophie.powell@informa.com

Just don't call it an MVNO if you are in the US. Dirty word!



Introducing Smart Cities - health, home, energy, transport

The software and services team are working away on a few new event propositions. Mobile Healthcare Middle East will evolve to become Smart Cities Industry Summit, showcasing M2M connectivity in the industry verticals of transport, home, health and energy. Interest to date has been high and we look forward to some productive meetings at Mobile World Congress with the main enablers in this area (Cisco, IBM, etc). We have been lucky enough to consult with Camille Mendler (formerly of Yankee) who has just joined ITM as Head of Industry Verticals M2M analyst. Having followed mobile healthcare avidly in the last couple of years, the respective enablement of service provisioning in smart grids, internet of things in the home, and telematics in automobile suggests some interesting research and events to come! To book a meeting with Camille or with Christopher and I about the event please email me at sophie.powell@informa.com