Don Jones (wireless health)

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Don Jones (also known as Donald Jones) is Vice President of Global Strategy and Market Development at Qualcomm Life, and is considered a pioneer in the Wireless Health field. [1] Jones also serves on the boards of the American Telemedicine Association, the Alliance Healthcare Foundation, and the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, which Jones also co-founded. [2] In 2010, Jones was named to Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals’ Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine Consumer Products Innovations Board. [3]

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Education

Jones received his bachelor's degree in Biology and Bio-Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, before going on to earn a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Irvine. [4]

Career

Before joining Qualcomm to head up its Wireless Health initiative, Jones developed and grew various healthcare enterprises for 22 years. He was Chief Operating Officer of MedTrans for 8 years, and grew the company from $4.5 million to $1.2 billion, which then became American Medical Response (AMR), the world's largest emergency medical services provider. [5] [6] While at MedTrans, he founded EMME in 1993. [7] EMME is a leader in pre-hospital medical care and is the largest subscription based health service in Mexico. [8] [9] At HealthCap, a venture capital backed startup that quickly became “the second largest provider of women’s healthcare in the United States,” he was Senior Vice President of Marketing. [10]

In the early 1980s, Jones developed the $3 billion critical care transportation sector. In 1996, Jones led AMR into emergency physician practice management. His strategy involved the acquisition of EMCARE, the largest US emergency medicine practice. [11] He also developed the launch of the American Medical Pathways for AMR, which won a $600 million healthcare call center contract. [12] Jones also founded Golden Hour Data Systems, an aeromedical IT supplier. [13]

Jones has been involved in more than 130 acquisitions, including the Medtrans and EMCARE rollups. [14]

In 2005, Jones founded the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance (WLSA), the world's first institute focused on accelerating the convergence of the wireless and health care industries. [15] In this role, he started the annual Wireless Health conferences in 2010. [16]

Jones was also named one of the Top Disruptive Forces in Health IT by Fierce Health IT in 2010.

At Qualcomm Life, Jones once led the development of wireless technologies and platforms in the health, fitness and life sciences markets. [17]

Honors

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References

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  2. ↑ http://www.biovision.org/bv2011/speaker-info.html/350-donald-jones%5B%5D
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  14. ↑ "WLSA Merger" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "University of California, Irvine | the Paul Merage School of Business". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
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  17. ↑ "Qualcomm Developer Network". uplinq.com.[ permanent dead link ]
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  19. ↑ "Montgomery Healthcare Conference - Speakers & Panels". Archived from the original on 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
  20. ↑ "San Diego Source > Top Influentials 2010 > Don Jones".
  21. ↑ "Don Jones - Disruptive Forces in Health IT - FierceHealthIT". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
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