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Innovations In HealthcareSM
13th Annual Awards Event | Sept. 28,
2011
Marriott Hotel - Long Beach, CA |
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We are pleased to announce the
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2011 ABBY Award Finalists
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Healthcare IT & Telecomm. Technology - Business Facing |
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Business Facing
Bruce Blausen, CEO
HQ: Houston, TX |
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Doctors and nurses have to explain sometimes complex core medical concepts to patients and their family members. With an aging and more video-centric patient population, narrated 3D animations are ideal for this task.
The Blausen Human Atlas mobile apps present 300 individual topics covering common medical conditions and treatments in a 1-2 minute animation video, with easy-to-understand 6th -7th grade level narration.
Once patients have learned more about their specific condition and fully understood its treatment plan, their anxiety is lower and compliance with forward requirements is better.
This results in significant time savings for doctors and nurses in educating their patients, better treatment plan compliance and fewer interruptive and unnecessary visits/ call backs for information.
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Category: Approach to the Delivery of Healthcare
Jim Ashby, CEO
HQ: Aliso Viejo, CA |
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Patients suffering from traumatic injury or medically complex illness typically are too medically complex to be discharged to traditional post-acute providers and still require significant rehabilitation and nursing to decomplicate and build up the endurance to tolerate more rigorous rehabilitation programs to prepare them to live independently. CareMeridian provides unmatched staff to patient ratio in an intimate, home-like environment more conducive to recovery. Our highly trained rehabilitation teams are comprised of physical, occupational, respiratory and speech therapists, as well as neuropsychological specialists. This interdisciplinary team approach to post-acute care leads to significantly reduced cost savings (less than half) and more positive outcomes with the highest possible opportunity for recovery in non-institutional community-based settings, comparable to a five-star hotel.
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Business Facing
Bryce A. Williams, Founder, President & CEO
HQ: San Mateo, CA |
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| Employers use Extend Health’s services to move Medicare-eligible retirees from group supplemental Medicare plans to individual plans paid for with an employer subsidy. Our Complemax call center solution is based on an innovative grid-based algorithm that optimizes the use of agent resources, to the end benefit of health care consumers. Complemax shortens average hold times and maximizes agent utilization by matching customer location and profile information with agents who hold appropriate credentials to provide service to that customer. Callers reach an agent right away who’s credentialed and aware of their profile, and can help them evaluate and find the best-fit plan and complete their enrollment application in just one call – providing both a good financial outcome and peace of mind. Having the right Medicare supplemental insurance can make a big difference in healthcare access and out of pocket spending for this vulnerable population, many of whom live on fixed incomes.
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Consumer Facing
Charlie Hillman, Founder & CEO
HQ: Westbend, WI |
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| GrandCare enables individuals to remain independent and at home by remotely assessing activities of daily living, remotely managing chronic health conditions, maintaining virtual communications between the individual and family/caregivers through an easy-to-use interactive touchscreen, virtual visits with two-way web conferencing, and encouraging mental activity and brain fitness. It helps to relieve the resident's feelings of isolation, while allowing the caregivers peace of mind. Available since 2006, GrandCare combines aspects of smart home technology, Internet communications, Social Networking, Tele-health & Activity of Daily Living Monitoring, and Two-Way Video chat technologies into a flexible, user friendly, and affordable package.
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Consumer Facing
Bruce Cryer, President
HQ: Boulder Creek, CA |
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| The HeartMath Revitalize You!™ Resilience Training program incorporates evidenced-based research to train people to maximize their physiology to create “coherence” and resilience. Coherence is an optimal performance state marked by increased internal balance and harmony. Numerous studies have demonstrated that learning coherence techniques reduces stress, enable clearer thinking, and enhances focus, decision-making, and creativity. Coherence has been proven to help organizations achieve significant reductions in healthcare costs by improving costly medical conditions, including Metabolic Syndrome (such as blood pressure and cholesterol). Participants have also seen improvements in emotional conditions with reductions in depression, anxiety, distress, as well as sleep, muscle tension, headaches, and rapid heartbeats. |
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Consumer Facing
Jason Goldberg , President
HQ: Toronto, ON |
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IDEAL LIFE, the leader in remote health management solutions, has created an innovative platform that addresses many of today’s most difficult healthcare issues. With a medical advisory expert panel, the IDEAL LIFE program makes proactive prevention more realistic than ever as it can gauge health issues before chronic conditions become acute events.
For people managing congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma or obesity, IDEAL LIFE provides relevant, real-time, reliable and actionable data from a person either at home or on the go. It delivers interactive, personalized communication to allow individuals to become more engaged and active participants in their own health.
The easy-to-use IDEAL LIFE system utilizes digital, secure two-way communication, allowing for a more personalized and cost-effective wellness experience.
The products have, for example, been proven to reduce congestive heart failure hospital admissions by 57%, demonstrating they can significantly reduce healthcare costs. |
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Category: Approach to the Delivery of Healthcare
W. June Simmons, Chief Executive Officer
HQ: San Fernando, CA |
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| Over the past 10 years, Partners in Care Foundation researchers collaborated with several So. CA hospitals and health care systems to examine the acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency of palliative care programs. The studies showed that patients and families were very satisfied with the consultations, support and medical services they received from palliative care teams.
Several demonstrated that in-home palliative care programs can significantly reduce use of medical services and costs care. In clinical trials, overall healthcare costs during the last year of life were 37% - 45% lower for patients receiving palliative services than for those receiving usual care. As a result of this line of research, many areas of the Kaiser Permanente system have adopted an in-home palliative care program as a standard of care and, based on that groundbreaking research, the model is also being widely adopted nationwide. |
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Business Facing
Dan R. Angress , President and COO
HQ: Irvine, CA |
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| PC is a technology and services company dedicated exclusively to the success of the community pathologist. We define success as increased revenue, improved efficiency, better competitive positioning for their practice, and ultimately, better patient care.
At the core of our product offering is a cost-effective, scalable web-based anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) that seamlessly integrates all of the critical components of a pathology practice's day-to-day operations.
Developed and refined over 10 years, the system helps reduce costs through improvements in operating efficiencies and enhanced patient safety using a state-of-the-art specimen identification and tracking system.
Our system also incorporates other services including direct access to our esoteric laboratory, marketing and sales support to help our customers grow their business, billing services with real-time financial analysis, and direct online access to professional pathology consultation from anywhere in the world.
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Category: Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology - Business Facing
Jason Gorevic, Chief Executive Officer
HQ: Dallas, TX
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Obtaining primary care is becoming increasingly difficult, sometimes taking days or even weeks. These wait periods extend discomfort for the patient with an untreated illness, and, in some cases, drive patients to expensive and unnecessary urgent care or emergency room visits.
As more Americans become insured through healthcare reform, this issue will be further exacerbated. Teladoc mitigates these issues with a viable alternative when a traditional visit to a primary care setting is challenging or impractical.
As the first and largest provider of telehealth services with three million members and a 97% patient satisfaction rate, the company provides access to U.S.-based, board-certified physicians available 24/7/365 for a variety of medical issues.
Teladoc’s ability to resolve patients’ routine medical issues through a timely, cost-effective service, frees healthcare resources to be focused on more serious conditions.
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Category: Medical/Bio-Technology
Jim Corbett, Chief Executive Officer |
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| Vertos developed the mild procedure, along with the proprietary interventional devices used in the treatment of LSS, a condition diagnosed in more than 1.2 million individuals in the U.S. each year.
Clinical results of mild used to treat patients with moderate to severe LSS demonstrated significant improvement in mobility and significant reduction in pain. The goal of Vertos Medical is for mild to become the logical first approach for certain LSS patients, offering the benefits associated with a lumbar decompression surgical procedure, but with local anesthesia, a shorter operation time, and quicker recovery time.
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Category: Medical/Bio-Technology
Gail S. Page, President and CEO
HQ: Austin, TX |
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Currently, only one third of women with ovarian cancer have their initial surgery done by a Gynecologic Oncologist, even though the Gynecologic Oncologist is specially trained for this surgery. OVA1 is a new blood test that helps direct women with a high probability of ovarian malignancy to a gynecologic oncologist for their initial surgery.
OVA1 is the only FDA-cleared test intended to help physicians identify the likelihood of an ovarian mass being malignant prior to surgery, thus facilitating patient referral to the most appropriate specialist for their initial surgery. Incorporating OVA1 into the physicians preoperative asssessment may also help to reduce the number of second surgeries and therefore reduce overall healthcare costs.
In the March 2011 edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology ACOG and SGO published an updated committee opinion indicating that OVA1 appears to improve the predictability of ovarian cancer in women with pelvic masses and said it may be useful for evaluating such patients.
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