James Welch Email & Phone Number

Bend, Oregon

Consultation to industry and hospitals based on 45 years experience in leadership roles providing the bridge between health care challenges and technology solutions. 25 years in the development and adoption of surveillance monitoring to improve patient safety in the non-ICU setting.Expertise for industry: strategic marketing, technology innovation, product development, quality systems, regulatory strategy, medical device alarm management, and IT integrationExpertise for hospitals: surveillance monitoring strategy, alarm management, forensic investigation

Greater San Diego Area

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all elements of the product development life cycle. Direct reports from Engineering, Science, Quality Systems and Regulatory Affairs.

Strategic Marketing: Identifying and bringing to market innovative noninvasive vital signs technologies with demonstrable improvement in patient outcomes and reducing patient care costsAcquired and developed innovative acoustic respiratory rate sensorLeveraged internal hospital IT infrastructures to lower purchasing and life-cycle costs for continuous pulse oximetry monitoring on the general care floor. Awarded the AAMI Foundation & Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Solution Award in collaboration with Dr. George Blike at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.Re-architected patient monitoring business proposition

Developed new core competence in medical device FDA compliant systems and wireless connectivity (IEEE 802.11). Recruited key personnel.Created new product systems architecture to open new market for pulse oximetry based surveillance monitoring for the general care floor.

Led technology development activities for Welch Allyn patient monitoring division.Developed and secured key foundational patents in wearable continuous physiologic monitoring system. Developed world wide virtual development team across four continents.Developed and secured patents of a wireless body worn sensor system.