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10th Annual Awards Event
April 23, 2008
The Westin South Coast Plaza
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The 2008 Semi-Finalists
Innovative Approach to the Delivery of Healthcare
CareMore Health Plan - Alan R. Hoops, CEO

Cerritos, CA's CareMore Health Plan and IDEAL LIFE® have partnered to create an innovative approach to the treatment of hypertension which has produced markedly improved outcomes in patients with the condition.
Center for Connected Health - Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Founder & Director

Boston, MA’s Center for Connected Health is providing convenient, personalized patient care by using resources such as the Internet, cell phones, digital cameras and sensors to connect leading medical specialists with patients in their homes, offices and around the world, thereby offering expert second opinions and better management and monitoring of their patient’s health.
City of Hope National Medical Center - Michael Friedman, President & CEO

Duarte, CA’s City of Hope National Medical Center’s Department of Urologic Oncology uses the da Vinci surgical system to perform laparoscopic radical prostatectomies, allowing physicians to take a giant leap forward in prostate cancer treatment. The robotic technique provides unparalleled surgical accuracy to significantly reduce blood loss and improve postoperative recovery.
Compounding Consultants
Compounding Consultants (dba Future Meds) - Robert Nickell, Pharm.D., Founder & CEO

Torrance, CA’s Future Meds allows private physician practices, for the first time, to offer individualized compounded medications in their office, such as cosmeceuticals, hormone replacement therapy, pain managers and sexual treatments. 

HeartMath, LLC - Bruce Cryer, CEO

Boulder Creek, CA’s HeartMath has earned global recognition for its research-based techniques and proprietary technology to transform the stress of change and uncertainty, bringing renewed energy to the workplace and home. HeartMath’s proven stress reduction results in reduced turnover and healthcare costs, and improved employee and patient satisfaction.

Nationwide Medical, Inc. - Howard Siegel, CEO

Agoura Hills ,CA’s Nationwide Medical’s Supply Program serves over 9,000 CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) patients with trained specialists who call them regularly and assist with therapy problems. The company also delivers all necessary supplies to patients’ homes.

SHPS, Inc. - Rishabh Mehrotra, CEO

Louisville, KY’s SHPS provides a broad range of innovative health management tools, resources and services that empower consumers to make wise healthcare decisions, maximizing the value of consumers’ and employers’ healthcare dollars. The company employs RNs, other health professionals, employee benefit specialists and IT experts in facilities across the U.S.

TelaDoc Medical Services, Inc. - Michael Gorton, JD, CEO

Dallas, TX ’s TelaDoc Medical Services offers a network of board-certified, state licensed primary care physicians who provide cross coverage consultations 24/ 7, 365 days a year to its one million members. For $35, TelaDoc physicians diagnose routine, non-emergency, medical problems via telephone, recommend treatment and prescribe medication when necessary.
Innovations in Medical/Bio-Technology
Aragon Surgical, Inc. - Peter Edelstein, MD, CEO

Palo Alto ,CA ’s Aragon Surgical’s Surgical LapCap ensures that, in laparoscopic procedures, blind needle passage is safe, simple, rapid and predictable, by utilizing simple suction to rapidly elevate the abdominal wall, creating a “safe space" into which the needle is passed.

AutoGenomics - Fareed Kureshy, Founder & CEO

Carlsbad, CA 's AutoGenomics provides clinical laboratories with an automated, cost-effective solution to perform molecular testing that allows them to help empower physicians to make informed decisions about issues such as drug selection, dose requirements, potential side effects, and adverse drug reactions based on their individual patient’s genetic profile.

BioStorage Technologies, Inc. - John Mills, MD, Ph.D., CEO

Indianapolis, IN’s BioStorage Technologies is a worldwide leader in short- and long-term biomaterials storage, sample management, transfer and cold chain logistics. BioStorage provides its clients with secure, temperature-controlled storage under ambient, refrigerated, ultra-low/cold and vapor phase nitrogen conditions for their stored biological samples.
Cianna Medical, Inc.
Cianna Medical, Inc.  - Jill D. Anderson, CEO

Aliso Viejo, CA ’s Cianna Medical recently commercialized a new medical device – the SAVI brachytherapy applicator, which combines the skin-sparing dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy with the single-entry ease of balloon brachytherapy, dramatically decreasing the amount of time required to treat women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.  

Cytokinetics, Inc. - James H. Sabry, MD, Ph.D., Executive Chairman

San Francisco, CA’s Cytokinetics has developed a drug discovery platform for drug candidates to treat cancer and heart disease; evaluating 19 novel drug targets against between 500,000 to 2 million compounds, and synthesizing  thousands of active compounds in the process.


Genoptix, Inc. - Tina Nova-Bennett,Ph.D., CEO

San Diego , CA ’S Genoptix is a specialized laboratory service provider that delivers personalized and comprehensive diagnostic services to community-based hematologists and oncologists, utilizing sophisticated diagnostic technologies to aid physicians in making their vital treatment decisions.


I-Flow Corporation - Don Earhart, Chairman, President & CEO

Lake Forest, CA ’s I-Flow Corporation has two technologies that have boosted their lead in the post-surgical pain relief sector: The ON-Q Soaker Catheter and the ON-Q SilverSoaker Catheter, which enable patients to receive effective pain relief, while reducing or eliminating the need for narcotics.

Ossur Americas, Inc. - Eythor Bender, President Aliso Viejo, CA ’s Ossur Americas', Propio Foot is the world’s first prosthesis to provide stability and security to amputees who would otherwise be compromised in their ability to walk, and typically relegated to a wheelchair. Early studies have shown that the Proprio Foot helps reduce co-morbidity and health issues related to amputation and undue stress on the body.

Prolacta Bioscience - Scott Elster, CEO

Monrovia, CA's Prolacta Bioscience is the pioneer in human milk-based nutritional products for critically-ill or premature infants in the NICU. Having developed the first-ever commercially available Human Milk Fortifier made from 100% human milk, Prolacta is committed to improving neonatal nutrition, using state-of-the-art formulation, pasteurization and filling processes.
SiDMAP
SiDMAP - Agnes Hirshberg, Founder & President

Los Angeles, CA ’s SiDMAP provides metabolic profiling and phenotyping services to pharma, biotech and research organizations involved in drug discovery and development, and in the analysis of disease states. SiDMAP’s tracer technology measures metabolic pathway flux to gain insight into cell function, enabling scientists to make important project decisions with confidence.
 
Innovations In Healthcare IT & Telecom Technology
Benchmark Revenue Management - Tyson McDowell, CEO

San Diego, CA’s Benchmark Revenue Management was founded on the principle that better technology can drive bottom-line growth in healthcare, in any size organization. In partnership with Navigant Consulting, Benchmark successfully launched the GPSHealth Suite, the most comprehensive revenue cycle solutions available in the market.

BidShift, Inc. - Graham Barnes, CEO

San Diego, CA’s BidShift helps hospitals manage workforce shortages and streamline staffing management by matching nurses and other healthcare employees with available open shifts. BidShift provides organization-wide staffing visibility and allows staff to access the Internet to view and request available open shifts for which they are qualified. 

CERECONS, a division of Unlimited Innovations Inc. - Philip Paul, CEO

Anaheim Hills, CA’s CERECONS offers software-as-a-service for physician network management that allows all care-chain participants to connect and collaborate on patient health, improving efficiency and reducing cost and time.

Dynamic Healthcare Systems, Inc. - Kenneth Stockman, President & CEO

Irvine, CA’s Dynamic Healthcare Systems offers healthcare IT products and services that can be delivered individually or combined to create comprehensive solutions. The company is focused on bringing Fortune 500 quality services to middle market companies serving the Medicare population.

eHealth, Inc. - Gary Lauer, Chairman & CEO

Mountain View, CA’s eHealth’s eHealthInsurance is the leading online source of health insurance for individuals, families and small businesses. Recent enhancements to their eHealth.com site enable even more specific "plan-member" matching by geography and special benefits provided by over 150 participating health insurance carriers, offering over 5,000 health insurance products.

ePocrates, Inc. - Kirk Loevner, Chairman & CEO

San Mateo, CA’s ePocrates has established a network of more than 500,000 healthcare professionals, including over 25% of  U.S. physicians, who rely on its mobile and web-based products for accurate clinical information and health plan drug coverage data, resulting in the reduction of adverse drug events and lower consumer cost.

flexSCAN, Inc. - Kenneth Westbrook, President

Mission Viejo, CA ’s flexSCAN offers a patent-pending and proprietary program, wellness360™, that rewards employees for managing their health and wellness and for using the company's online personal health records system and other services. The program simultaneously remunerates employers for endorsing and supporting the program.

Woodland Hills, CA's Health Benchmarks’ HBIOnline makes available performance results for selected clinical quality indicators to providers on a web-based platform, far more cost effectively than paper-based reports. HBIOnline also makes available listings of patients who were eligible to receive a service and a confirmation as to whether the service was provided.

Healthsense - Brian Bischoff, CEO

Mendota Heights, MN’s Healthsense is a market leader in providing scalable, flexible, assistive health monitoring technologies to protect the health and well being of at-risk individuals, including ADL monitoring, Wi-Fi wireless nurse call, fall detection, wander management, and campus-wide security and Wi-Fi communication.

ikaSystems Corporation - Ravi Ika, CEO

Southborough ,MA ’s ikaSystems provides managed care organizations, CDHPs, third party administrators, Medicare, and Medicaid with enterprise-wide, off-the-shelf technology designed to automate key transactions and business processes in the managed care cycle. This includes core claims adjudication, disease and utilization management, and HEDIS® reporting.

MedAssets, Inc. - John Bardis, Chairman & CEO

Alpharetta, GA’s MedAssets partners with over 125 health systems, including 2,500 hospitals and 30,000 non-acute care healthcare providers, improving their financial strength by implementing integrated spend management and revenue cycle solutions to help control cost, improve margins and cash flow, increase compliance, and optimize operational efficiency.

Medsphere Systems Corporation - Michael Doyle, CEO

Aliso Viejo, CA’s Medsphere automates the patient care process for care facilities via rapid deployment and support of OpenVista, the first commercially deployed, subscription-based, open source application for management of the clinical care cycle, based on the successfully proven VA's VistAmodel. 

NetChemistry Inc. - Chris Cruttenden, President

Newport Beach, CA’s NetChemistry specializes in Web-based information enrollment, distribution and tracking systems comprised of secure, scalable software modules, which are designed to improve customer relationships, resulting in efficiency, convenience and reduced liability, and can be rapidly customized to fit the different parameters of each client’s offering.

Practice Fusion, Inc. - Ryan Howard, CEO

San Francisco’s Practice Fusion offers an integrated, on-demand EMR service to streamline costly and inefficient manual processes between physicians, patients and healthcare groups associated with claims adjudication, eligibilities, authorizations and sharing medical records.
Silverlink Communications, Inc.  - Stan Nowak, CEO

Burlington, MA’s Silverlink Communications provides automated voice solutions that enable healthcare enterprises to design, deploy and manage HIPAA-compliant automated call programs to educate, collect information from and drive behavior of thousands of patients and members, drastically reducing the cost of connecting with customers while improving their care.

SNAPforSeniors, Inc.  - Derek Preston, CEO

Seattle, WA’s SNAPforSeniors has developed and operates the nation’s most current and comprehensive web-based senior housing resource and listing service, putting objective information about the country's 65,000+ licensed senior housing facilities at the fingertips of consumers and their advocates.

Xoova, Inc. - Thomas McGloin, CEO

Santa Monica, CA’s Xoova is an online medical services marketplace which patients use for free to find local doctors, to learn what to expect in advance of a care encounter, and to schedule appointments. Doctors use Xoova for free to manage their presence on the Internet, to share their philosophy of care, and to offer patients the convenience of online scheduling.
 
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