Steve Case, CEO of Revolution Health, to Keynote and Receive ABL's Leadership Award

Nine Innovative Health Companies Named Finalists for ABBY Awards to be presented at ABL's 10th Annual Innovations in Healthcare^SM Awards Event, April 23rd

Orange, CA — February 12, 2008 — Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution Health Group (and Co-Founder of AOL) will receive the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization's 2008 “Leadership in Innovation" Award and Keynote at ABL's 10th Annual Innovations in Healthcare^SM Awards Event on April 23rd. Additionally, nine national ABBY Award Finalists will present to the live audience of senior healthcare leaders at the Event, to be held in Costa Mesa, CA, as they vie to win the prestigious Award that honors innovative products and services that reduce the cost of providing quality healthcare.

Steve Case was singled out for the Leadership Award in recognition of his visionary enabling of healthcare consumers, through Revolution Health, to become more proactively involved in their care. The recurrent theme of the Innovations in Healthcare Event - addressed by the Leadership Awardee, the ABBY Finalists, and the ABL Organization itself - is honoring proven innovations, deployed through healthcare information, medical technology and approaches, aimed at enabling millions of Americans to enjoy more affordable healthcare.

"This year's Innovations Event will be the best health cost-reduction showcase yet," noted Mimi Grant, ABL's president. "Our objective here is that others will apply these – and create even more creative ways – to lower the cost of providing quality healthcare."

The nine ABBY Award Finalists were selected by 25 ABL-Member “Champions" from a field of 45 Semi-Finalists, who in turn were chosen from the largest number of nominees in the Award’s ten-year history. The Finalists were selected for best meeting the criteria of being innovative, with a product and/or service that is approved for use in the U.S. marketplace, and have clinical and financial metrics that prove their technology or approach reduces the cost of providing quality healthcare. Award Winners will be selected (by secret ballot) by the senior healthcare industry executives attending the Awards Event, after hearing presentations from each Finalist company. Attendance is open to ABL Members, as well as non-Member senior executives.

The ABBY Award Finalists, divided into three categories, are:

Finalists in the Innovative Approaches to the Delivery of Healthcare category:

• Oakland, CA’s Alameda County Medical Center’s Rapid Entry and Accelerated Care at Triage (REACT) program has increased capacity, efficiency, and throughput in the ER.
• Alexandria, VA’s WellPoint’s Lumenos created one of the first Consumer Directed Health Plans, enabling consumers to take a more proactive roll in managing and paying for, their own care.
• Sacramento, CA’s Sutter Health Partners’ LIVE WELL FOR LIFE program focuses on identifying the predictors of disease and intervening before disease status is reached.

Finalists in the Innovations in Healthcare Information Technology category:

• San Francisco, CA’s Healthline Networks operates Healthline.com, whose Medically Guided Search help consumers better navigate the complex world of health information.
• Needham, MA’s iMDsoft, Inc.’s MetaVision Suite is a clinical info system solution that automates all areas of patient management, workflow, documentation, and order entry.
• Pittsburgh, PA’s M*Modal, Inc.’s hosted conversational documentation services helps providers capture clinical information from dictation and transform it into shareable e-files.

Finalists in the Innovations in Medical/Diagnostic category:

• Sunnyvale, CA’s Accuray, Inc.’s CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world's only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively.
• Laguna Hills, CA’s Micro Imaging Technology’s laser-based system rapidly detects and identifies bacterium, cutting time from days to hours.
• South San Francisco, CA’s XDx, Inc.’s AlloMap® molecular expression testing non-invasively monitors the immune system for transplant donors.

For ten years, ABL’s ABBY Awards have recognized organizations which have demonstrated transformative advances in medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, information technology and approaches to providing care and coverage, decreasing the numbers of uninsured, and engaging healthcare consumers more actively in their care and health status, all of which reduces the cost of providing healthcare.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
ABL, California’s leading Chief Executives’ Organization, provides its Members with executive leadership coaching through its confidential peer CEO Advisory Board Round Tables and executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers and expert resources. ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets of their peers in a non-competing vertical industry personal advisory board - multi-coach approach - setting.

The core component of the CEO Membership experience is the group Round Table meeting. Members meet once a month for a half day with a group of peer CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers from non-competing companies all from the same industry (healthcare, technology or life sciences) in a trusted and confidential board room like setting, which allows the executive Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies, new lines of business, best business practices, understanding new trends, developing an effective board of directors, leadership training and executive compensation.

Members also gather several times a year at workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief executives beyond their own CEO peer groups. In effect, ABL Members serve as each other’s business coaches within the Round Tables and are encouraged to connect and leverage their co-Member peers’ particular skills and expertise for additional leadership coaching, one-on-one, outside of their monthly group meeting. In addition, each Round Table’s Facilitator also serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights and advice.

ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table program is currently being offered in California's greater Orange County, Los Angeles and San Francisco County areas.