Congratulations to ABL's 2008 Innovations in Healthcare(SM) ABBY Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 10th Annual Innovations in Healthcare(SM) ABBY Awards, who were announced on April 23, 2008, at an awards event that drew over 150 top executives from healthcare services, information technology, med tech, wellness, hospital, physician group, Internet, biotech, and professional services firms, as well as federal and county government. And the winners are: Alameda County Medical Center; M*Modal, Inc.; and Accuray, Inc. This year's event was kicked-off by David Sayen, CMS Region IX Administrator, who introduced Keynoter, Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC and Co-Founder/CEO of AOL. Case was honored with the 2008 "Leadership in Innovation" Award in recognition of his visionary enabling of healthcare consumers, through Revolution Health, to become more proactively involved in their care.
Orange, CA (PRWEB) April 28, 2008 -- Congratulations to the winners of the 10th Annual Innovations in Healthcare(SM) ABBY Awards, who were announced on April 23, 2008, at an awards event that drew over 150 top executives from healthcare services, information technology, med tech, wellness, hospital, physician group, Internet, biotech, and professional services firms, as well as federal and county government. And the winners are: Alameda County Medical Center; M*Modal, Inc.; and Accuray, Inc.
Steve Case, Chairman/CEO of Revolution LLC, holds his Leadership in Innovation Award
This year's Innovations in Healthcare(SM) event was kicked-off by David Sayen, CMS Region IX Administrator, who introduced the Event's Keynoter, Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC and Co-Founder/CEO of AOL. Case was honored with the 2008 "Leadership in Innovation" Award in recognition of his visionary enabling of healthcare consumers, through Revolution Health, to become more proactively involved in their care. Case believes the healthcare system doesn't need incremental "band-aid" type approaches. It needs a revolution, led by the people, for people. The cornerstone of his company is RevolutionHealth.com, a free, comprehensive health and medical information site that offers best-of-breed health information and more than 125 online tools aimed at helping individuals take control of their well-being. Revolution Health has partnered with over 50 companies and teamed with leading health nonprofits and experts to make its innovative approach to health a reality.
"This was not only our 10th Annual Innovations in Healthcare(SM) Awards Event, but by all accounts it was our biggest and best," said Mimi Grant, President of the ABL Organization, which hosted the event and is celebrating its 25th anniversary year. "Over the past ten years, what started as a small, regional 'contest' has become a prestigious, national Awards Event, where the winners are selected by their peers in the audience. Our objective in all of this is to elevate and congratulate the intrepid entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who are bringing to market innovative ways to reduce the cost of quality, accessible healthcare. This year's ABBY winners range from an inner-city public hospital, to the world's only robotic radiosurgery system, to a software service that captures clinical information from dictation and transforms it directly into retrievable and shareable electronic files. And our 'Leadership in Innovation' Awardee, Steve Case, pointed out what he believes are the similarities in breaking through technical, governmental, and vested interests in creating a consumer-accessible Internet -- AOL -- and creating a consumer-centric 'Revolution' in healthcare."
Case's keynote was followed by the eight Finalists in the healthcare delivery, healthcare IT, and medtech categories, who made presentations to the audience of healthcare CEOs and senior executives. The audience then voted for an ABBY Award winner in each category.
In the "Innovative Approaches to the Delivery of Healthcare" category, Oakland, CA-based Alameda County Medical Center, where Wright Lassiter III is CEO, was awarded for its Rapid Entry and Accelerated Care at Triage (REACT) program, which has increased capacity, efficiency, and throughput in the emergency department. It is a multi-step process developed on the concept of "the right patient receiving the right care at the right time."
In the "Innovations in Healthcare Information Technology" category, Pittsburgh, PA-based M*Modal, Inc., where Michael Finke is CEO, was chosen for its hosted conversational documentation services that help healthcare providers capture clinical information from dictation and transform it directly into accessible, retrievable, and shareable e-files. M*Modal serves hospitals, clinics, and medical transcription companies, with a transaction volume of more than 100 million dictation minutes a year.
In the "Innovations in Medical/Diagnostics Technology" category, Sunnyvale, CA-based Accuray, Inc., where Euan Thomson, Ph.D. is CEO, won the ABBY for its CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System, the world's only robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body non-invasively and with sub-millimeter accuracy, resulting in improved quality of life and a non-surgical treatment option for those diagnosed with cancer.
ABL is now accepting nominees for the 2009 ABBY Awards at http://www.abl.org/IIH2008/W/Nominations.htm
About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization:
Celebrating its 25th anniversary year, the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization's mission is to help health and technology leaders grow great companies. ABL does this through its monthly, industry-specific Round Tables and frequent Events. In their confidential Round Tables, ABL Members - who are CEOs, Presidents, COOs and Division General Managers - openly seek from and share with each other candid advice, best practices and innovative approaches for capitalizing on market trends and opportunities, in order to assure they are well positioned for business and personal success.
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