The Journal of mHealth Vol 1 Issue 3 (June 2014) | Page 15

Industry News

Global Mobile Subscriptions
Reach 7 Billion
The mobile industry has scaled dramatically over the last decade. At the end of
2003, there were a little over one billion
unique subscribers - one in six people
had subscribed to a mobile service.
By the end of 2013, according to the
GSMA’s annual report, this figure had
more than tripled and reached seven billion mobile subscriptions in April 2014.

In the Mobile Economy, 2014, published
last month, the GSMA reports that there
will be a dramatic rise in the number of
mobile connections (including handsets, tablets and machine-to-machine
devices), with the number forecast to
reach 11 billion by 2020.

works will need to be smarter, responsive,
modular, flexible, scalable, adaptable and
open. The operator community will need
to collaborate on the definition of common processes, guidelines and standards
in the network space to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future.

The mobile operator’s association has
also identified four key
growth areas that present
both significant opportunities and benefits for consumers and provide clear
opportunities for mobile
operators:

According to the report: “Operators
should look to avoid fragmentation,
guarantee interoperability of services
and enable new business opportunities at
a regional or global scale. Only through
this collaboration will the industry be
able to meet increasing demands for
capacity and provide the level of service
customers will demand as mobile networks play an increasingly important role
in their everyday lives.”

These areas are Personal
Data, Digital Commerce,
Connected Living and a further category, Network 2020.
Network 2020 is shaped by
the belief that mobile networks will be at the heart of
the all-IP mobile broadband
era, connecting devices and
acting as the key interface
between the physical and
digital world. In order to be
able to provide connectivity
on a cost-effective and sustainable basis, mobile net-

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image-processing algorithms estimate
the amount of blood contained on that
surface and sends it back to the OR in
real-time. Triton features an intuitive
iPad interface, requires minimal training,
and seamlessly integrates into existing
surgical workflow. The system is fully
HIPAA compliant.
“We identified a critical unmet need for
a fast and accurate way to estimate blood
loss on sponges in the operating room,”
said Siddarth Satish, Gauss Founder and
Chief Technology Officer. “By leveraging the power of mobile devices in combination with our proprietary software
we’re fulfilling that need with the potential to reduce unnecessary transfusions

The report maintains that “mobile services will increasingly migrate into the
Cloud to deliver on the promise of service access anytime, anywhere through
any device; such services will be dependent on the availability of consistent
high speed, low latency connections.”
This leads to natural opportunities in
4G/LTE and making networks more
“self- aware” and dynamically configurable, to cope with the increased traffic
demand and also to provide the quality
of experience customers expect. n

and the associated costs and complications.”

Ventures with Promus Ventures and
Taube Investment Partners participating.

The approval went through the de novo
classification process, a regulatory path
for some low- to moderate-risk medical devices that are not substantially
equivalent to an already marketed device.
Under the de novo petition review process the FDA reviewed data from two
clinical studies that demonstrated the
accuracy of the device.

1. “56 Facts About Blood and Blood
Donation” Brookhaven Science and
Technology
2. “Saving blood, saving money, saving lives” University of Florida Health
Science Center
3. Shander, et al, 2010. Activity based
costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at hospitals. Transfusion
2010;50(4): 753-65
4. Premier Healthcare Alliance Analysis, 2012. “Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, reduced
costs.” n

Gauss was an early participant in the
StartX Stanford University incubator
and has recently relocated its corporate
offices to Los Altos. In October, Gauss
closed a $6.2 M Series A round of funding. The round was led by LifeForce

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