E-commerce 1994 = wireless health 2010?
While TripleTree, a Minnesota-based investment bank and research company, concluded just eight months ago in this report that the market for wireless and mobile health hasn’t tipped yet and probably won’t for another 18 months as it moves mainstream (94 percent of wireless health companies surveyed are private, two-thirds generate less than $1 million in annual revenue, and 90% are based in the US)–the comparison is being made to e-commerce circa 1994 (the founding of Amazon) by the new head of the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), formerly a TripleTree partner. Some signs: the WLSA just became full-time and industry-supported, has added major companies and health organizations as sponsors, and is hosting an invitation-only Investor’s Meeting and Convergence Summit today through May 13 in San Diego. TripleTree is also sponsoring the I-Awards (see item Center for Connected Health spinoff). Xconomy San Diego article.
[Update 12 May] And the I-Award winners are….