Ingram Micro Teams With Qualcomm Life to Bring Scale and Efficiency to Mobile Health Industry
December 04 2012 - 9:00AM
Marketwired
Demonstrating its growing leadership as a distributor of mobile
health technologies, Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced
it has signed and executed a strategic agreement with Qualcomm
Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, to distribute
its 2net™ Hub worldwide.
Under the terms of the new U.S. agreement, Ingram Micro is
providing advanced logistics support for Qualcomm Life's 2net Hub,
a compact "plug-and-play" gateway that gives medical device users
and their physicians easy wireless access to biometric data. By
delivering device aggregation and activation services that pair
various wireless medical devices with a single 2net Hub, Ingram
Micro is simplifying the deployment and use of mobile health
technologies.
Additionally, Ingram Micro will be providing distribution and
activation services for a select number of wireless medical device
manufacturers already in the 2net Ecosystem. The initial set of
mHealth devices that will be aggregated with the 2net Hub include
weight scales, heart monitors, blood glucose meters and pulse
oximeters.
Qualcomm Life's 2net Hub will be available from Ingram Micro as
a standalone product or bundled wireless solution that can be
activated and then drop-shipped to customers around the globe.
"Mobile, logistics services and healthcare represent three key
strategic initiatives for Ingram Micro and provide high-growth and
profit opportunities for the overall technology industry and
specifically for the IT channel," says Paul Bay, acting president,
Ingram Micro North America.
"This new relationship with Qualcomm Life provides Ingram Micro
with a clear business advantage in the rapidly growing mobile
health space and emerging opportunity around machine-to-machine
connectivity," added Bay. "By leveraging Ingram Micro's global
scale, our recent acquisition of BrightPoint, our growing logistics
offerings and the continued investments we've made to optimize and
specialize our business, Qualcomm Life will be well positioned to
build greater business efficiencies that can help accelerate demand
for its 2net Platform and Hub and help drive down go-to-market
costs."
"This strategic collaboration with Ingram Micro marks an
important milestone in our goal to position wireless health to
scale as it becomes mainstream in healthcare systems worldwide,"
says Rick Valencia, vice president and general manager of Qualcomm
Life. "Ingram Micro brings valuable logistics expertise and global
distribution power to our 2net Hub initiatives, enabling us --
along with our customers -- to ramp up and reach out to more
patients to optimize treatment plans and improve quality of life as
they battle chronic conditions."
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About Ingram Micro Inc. Ingram Micro is
the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global
leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and
logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain,
Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for
vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced
logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial
services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is
the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries
on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of
IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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Press Contact: Marie Rourke WhiteFox Marketing (for
Ingram Micro) (714) 292-2199 marie@whitefoxpr.com
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