A-Life Medical CEO Joins ABL Organization

Orange, CA — May 29, 2009 — Tom Bang, President and CEO of A-Life Medical, Inc., has joined the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL). As part of California’s leading vertical-industry Chief Executives’ Organization, ABL Members provide one another with executive leadership coaching through its confidential, professionally-facilitated, peer-CEO Advisory Board Round Tables, executive learning workshops, network of CEO peers, and expert resources.

A privately held medical informatics company, A-Life Medical is the leading provider of Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based solutions for the healthcare industry. The company’s products extract meaning from unstructured free text and automate tedious, complicated and labor intensive tasks. A-Life's mission is to provide world-class solutions to streamline and computerize the code-to-collection process and to fundamentally advance the way the healthcare industry gathers, applies and reports on patient information. Founded in 1996, A-Life Medical is the market leader in computer-assisted coding solutions for billing services companies and physician groups. Customers include billing services companies and physician practice groups – more than 2,700 users across the U.S. A-Life delivers its products via an Application Service Provider (ASP) model, reducing implementation cycles to weeks rather than the months (or years) generally required for client/server applications. The ASP model also minimizes capital investment costs.

Tom has held executive-level positions throughout his 30-year career, including Pyxis Corporation (Cardinal Health); MediTROL Automation Systems (Owen Healthcare); Baxter International and American Hospital Supply Corporation. He earned his Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the Ohio State University and completed his MBA studies at Pepperdine University.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
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 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 ABL Members to tackle topics and enhance their decision making and business performance. Topics include: developing and honing new business strategies and best practices, new lines of business, “A-players” on the management team, and an effective board of directors, as well as understanding trends in new markets, mergers and acquisitions, compensation, and other “hot” topics brought to the Round Tables by the Members themselves.

ABL 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 one another’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 offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange and San Francisco County areas. More information about the ABL Organization can be found at http://www.abl.org .