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Doug Rasor has over 30 years experience in Technology startup and Semiconductor businesses. His current company, Rasor Advisors, works with startup companies and Venture Capital firms to develop marketing and funding strategies. His current clients include Incube Labs, a Menlo Park-based Medical Device incubator, Grid2Home, Avuli Networks, and OnRampWireless (where he holds board positions). Rasor is recently retired from TI, where his last role was Vice President, Emerging Medical Technologies. In this role, he was responsible for establishing relationships with Universities, Venture Capital investors and Innovative Start-up companies in the Medical Device Sector. These relationships helped the companies by providing them access to key TI technology. Lessons-learned from the interactions allowed TI to develop better/more targeted solutions for Healthcare applications in the future. From 1995-2005, Rasor was VP, Strategic Marketing at TI. In this role, he ran an organization responsible for scouting, and incubating TI's entrance into new high-growth markets. Previous experiences include multiple Field Sales and Business Unit marketing assignments at TI, as well as Sales/Marketing management roles at Sierra Semiconductor. Before his entry into the Semiconductor industry, he was Director of Engineering at SIMUTECH where he led the development of real-time simulation hardware/software for the avionics network on the F-16 fighter aircraft. Rasor obtained his degree in Systems Engineering from Wright State University, with postgraduate work in Computer Science.

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The 21st Century hospital will be part bricks and mortar and part virtual network, where patient records are accessible on-demand during rounds, and diagnostics and surgery are conducted remotely. Real-time data access and data mining, will complement deeper physician-patient relationships. This session will explore the building blocks that are being developed to enable the networked hospital by a panel of medical equipment and service providers, communications and networking specialists and medical systems integrators.

Moderator: Bruce Rayner, Contributing Editor, EE Times

Panelists: Gunnar Trommer (VP Marketing & Customer Service, Sotera Wireless Inc.), Manish Rai (Senior Director, Product Marketing, Enterprise Mobility, Motorola, Inc.), Phil Raymond (Wireless Architect, Healthcare Informatics & Patient Monitoring, Philips Healthcare), David Niewolny (Medical Market Segment Manager, Freescale Semiconductor)

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What is the next big innovation in Medical? Ultra-low power and a billion transistors - How can electronics impact the quality of life? And most of all, who will pay for it? Please join TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz for a discussion on topics that move the industry and an exciting journey to where innovation in medical electronics can take us.

Moderator: Gene Frantz (Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments)

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Moderator: Bruce Rayner, Contributing Editor, EE Times

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Presentors: Matthew Hann (Precision Analog Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments), Srikanth (Srik) Gurrapu (Product Line Marketing Manager, Low Power C5000 Processors Business Unit, Texas Instruments), Priya Thanigai (World Wide Applications Engineer, MSP430 Microcontroller Group, Texas Instruments), Thomas Hoffmann (Strategic Marketing Manager, Low-Power DC-DC Group, Texas Instruments)

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Moderators: Robert Shinno (Industry Product Sales High Tech / Electronics, Dassault Systèmes), Bo Esler (Industry Product Sales Life Sciences, Dassault Systèmes)

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Moderator: Rick Merritt, Editor at Large, EE Times

Panelists: Alexander Damisch (Business Manager, Industrial and Medical, Wind River), Steve Dean (Medical Marketing Director, Texas Instruments), Rick Cnossen (Chairman, Continua Health Alliance), Douglas J. McClure (Corporate Manager for Operations and Technology at the Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare)

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Moderator: David Niewolny (Medical Market Segment Manager, Freescale Semiconductor)

Panelists: Alexander Damisch (Business Manager, Industrial and Medical, Wind River), Steve Dean (Medical Marketing Director, Texas Instruments), Rick Cnossen (Chairman, Continua Health Alliance), Douglas J. McClure (Corporate Manager for Operations and Technology at the Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare)

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• Show FDA compliance in minutes vs. weeks through automated traceability and report generation.
• Eliminate software related recalls and FDA scrutiny by dramatically improving quality with a solution to manage all assets and activities from requirements through to test and deployment.
• Improve cycle time through improved product line management and full V-model reuse of features, requirements, design, code, and tests.
• Better handle complexity and volume challenges while improving cost efficiencies

By achieving traceability across multiple product lines and variants, organizations can drive high levels of quality and enable end-to-end reuse to reduce time-to-market. You'll see how complex reports like the Device Master Record (DMR) and Design History File (DHF) can be created with mouse-clicks to speed development cycles while ensuring compliance with FDA and other regulations. About the spearker: Steve Mostello is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Senior Customer Solutions Engineer for MKS Inc. where he is responsible for helping clients assess, implement and gain measurable business value from Intelligent ALMâ„¢ (application lifecycle management) solutions. Steve has extensive experience working with Medical Device Companies, implementing solutions to improve the quality of their embedded software development while drastically reducing the time and effort required to meet FDA compliance requirements. As part of this experience, Steve led the effort to configure complex reporting that enables the Device Master Record (DMR) and Design History File (DHF) for an organization to be created with mouse-clicks instead of the person-weeks required when manually compiled.

Presenter:Steve Mostello, Senior Customer Solutions Engineer, MKS Inc.

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The medical sector like so many others is migrating from standalone analog technologies to digital networked ones. That is opening the door to many opportunities, but the hurdles are high. There is a thick and entrenched regulatory regime and a bureaucracy managing it in medical electronics. The end user community of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and patients can be tech averse. And this sector still relies on handwritten records kept in file cabinets. The Obama Administration is pumping about $19 billion into an effort to kick start a long delayed move to digital health care records. For the last few years, many big chip makers have been putting a greater focus on this sector. Is this sector set for an historic to take off or not? What are you seeing?

Moderator:Rick Merritt, Editor at Large, EE Times

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Moderator: Bruce Rayner, Contributing Editor, EE Times

Panelists: AJ Guikema (Director of Material Compliance,TetraTech), Bill Graham (Product Marketing Manager, VxWorks), Michael J. Zepp (Director, Global Market Development, Environmental Compliance & Sustainability, Dassault Systemes ENOVIA), Steve Mostell (Senior Customer Solutions Engineer, MKS Inc.)