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. Jones also serves on the boards of the
American Telemedicine Association
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA), established in 1993, is a non-profit organization whose goal is to promote access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology (alternatively referred to a ...
, th
Alliance Healthcare Foundation and th
Wireless Life Sciences Alliance which Jones also co-founded. In 2010, Jones was named t
Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals’ Consumer Products Innovations Board.
Education
Jones received his bachelor's degree in Biology and Bio-Engineering from the
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...
, before going on to earn a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego and a
Master of Business Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
(MBA) from the
University of California at Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
.
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
American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is a medical transportation company in the United States that provides and manages community-based medical transportation services, including emergency (911), non-emergency and managed transportation, rotary ...
(AMR), the world's largest emergency medical services provider. While at MedTrans, he founde
EMMEin 1993. EMME is a leader in pre-hospital medical care and is the largest subscription based health service in Mexico. A
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.
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
EmCare Holdings Inc., or EmCare, was an American provider of physician practice management services for emergency departments, inpatient physician services or hospitals, acute care surgery, trauma and general surgery, women's and children's service ...
, the largest US emergency medicine practice. He also developed the launch of the American Medical Pathways for AMR, which won a $600 million healthcare call center contract. Jones also founde
Golden Hour Data Systems an aeromedical IT supplier.
Jones has been involved in more than 130 acquisitions, including the Medtrans and EMCARE rollups.
In 2005, Jones founded th
Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance(WLSA), the world's first institute focused on accelerating the convergence of the wireless and health care industries. In this role, he started the annual Wireless Health conferences in 2010.
Jones was also named one of th
Top Disruptive Forcesin Health IT b
Fierce Health ITin 2010.
At Qualcomm Life, Jones once led the development of wireless technologies and platforms in the health, fitness and life sciences markets.
Honors
*1998: Director of the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) asks Jones to write the EMS Implementation Guide for the Future
*2000: Jones becomes the Journal of Emergency Medical Services’ (JEMS) One of the 20 Most Influential People in EMS
*2010: Jones is named a Finalist in the “Biotech, Tech and Defense” division of San Diego's Top Influentials by the San Diego Source
*2010: Jones receives the title of a “Disruptive Force in Health IT” from Fierce Health IT for his innovative outlook on the future of healthcare. Fierce Health It quotes Jones as saying, “50 percent of primary care does not have to be delivered face-to-face. Why leave your home? Why leave your desk when you don’t have to?”
See also
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National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
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Continua Health Alliance
Continua Health Alliance is an international non-profit, open industry group of nearly 240 healthcare providers, communications, medical, and fitness device companies.
Continua was a founding member of Personal Connected Health Alliance which wa ...
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Scripps Genomic Health Initiative
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The Scripps Research Institute
Scripps Research, previously known as The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institu ...
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Telehealth
Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, mon ...
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American health care businesspeople
University of California, San Diego alumni