10 Innovators Selected to Vie for 2 ABBY Awards: 1 in Southern California and 1 in Northern California

Finalists Selected for Innovations in Healthcare^TM ABBY Awards; Winners to be Chosen on December 5th & December 12th, 2018

The 2018 ABBY Award Finalists, in alphabetical order, are:

Finalists for the December 5th Event, in Southern California:

Advanced Pathways - Traci Patterson, Founder and Executive Director: The company's Hypnosis Combined Therapy (HCT) provides solutions for chronic pain patients (CRPS, Fibromyalgia, SFN, Migraines, etc.) through a personalized, evidence-based, non-invasive, drug-free treatment option that allows patients to regain their lives. HCT gets the patient out of 'fight/flight', resetting the pain loop, balancing the autonomic nervous system, reducing/controlling stress and anxiety, increasing restorative sleep, and helping with PTSD. Their 5-day protocol is not only changing patients' lives, but is also dramatically decreasing the overall burden on the U.S. healthcare system.

Amenity Health Inc.'s MedCline - Aaron Clark, Co-Founder & CEO: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) affects 20% of the adult US population. For under $300, the MedCline Reflux Relief System is more effective than medications at reducing nighttime GERD symptoms, more effective than surgery at reducing Silent Reflux symptoms, and it provides physicians and patients with a powerful and effective alternative to Proton Pump Inhibitor medications and surgery. It has been clinically studied with patients with typical reflux symptoms - as well as laryngopharyngeal reflux, pregnancy reflux, post-esophagectomy, and lung transplant patients with reflux - with consistent positive results.

Catasys, Inc.'s OnTrak Program - Rick Anderson, President & COO: Through predictive analytics, Catasys identifies, engages, and treats behavioral care-avoidant people who are suffering from untreated behavioral health conditions that are exacerbating chronic medical disease. By applying advanced tools and proprietary insights, during its 52-week program, Catasys care coaches motivate behavior change, resulting in better health, improved resiliency, and reduced costs: total claims paid, a reduction in ED and inpatient utilization, as well as a reduction in professional costs, such as doctor fees. OnTrak's retention is 80%: four times the average behavioral health treatment retention.

healthPiper, LLC - Joshua Freedman, MD, CEO & Founder: Among the millions of Americans identified as depressed by their primary care doctor, almost two-thirds don't get treatment. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Freedman recognized the challenges his patients faced, particularly those suffering from anxiety and depression, to travel across town to meet with their doctor. healthPiper: a mobile medication-based treatment program for patients with depression and anxiety, that uses a cost-effective "concierge style" that harnesses mobile technology, coupling it with innovative approaches for delivering meds and staying patient-connected, all at less than half the typical cost of care.

ImpediMed, Inc.'s SOZO® Digital Health Platform - Richard Carreon, Managing Director & CEO: The post-surgical complication of lymphedema (in which fluid builds up in the extremities due to damage of the lymph system) is so significant that it is taken for granted. SOZO provides a critical tool for the early detection, monitoring, and management of conditions like lymphedema. When used immediately upon cancer diagnosis, SOZO enables the monitoring of subtle changes in breast cancer patients - detecting lymphedema as much as 4-10 months earlier than other methods, allowing for early intervention and prevention of disease progression, decreasing the development of persistent, possibly irreversible, lymphedema in breast cancer patients by as much as 95%.

Finalists for the December 12th Event, in Northern California:

Atlas Lift Tech - Eric Race, Founder, President & CEO: The company works with hospitals' safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) programs in 10 states, identifying opportunities for integration of an SPHM program customized to the unique requirements of each facility. Atlas provides proven, effective practices that improve patient safety, reduce provider injury, offer an impressive return on investment, and produce a thriving and sustainable culture of safety. Specific to SPHM, Atlas delivers a 95% reduction in lost work days, an 88% drop in claims and litigation, 89% lower average cost per injury, and a 65% reduction in injury rates - which in turn results in a decrease in insurance premiums.

Care3, Inc. - David Williams, Founder & CEO: The company offers a team collaboration platform for healthcare delivered in the home and community, including collaborative care programs. The web-based Care3 Action Planner enables providers to build a single action plan for all care, with collaborative work space for interdisciplinary teams to build itemized task lists of care activities to be completed in the home by clinicians, aides, and/or family caregivers. Care3 Mobile is a HIPAA-compliant mobile app, used by the patient, family and care staff. Used together, Care3 provides insight that enables care teams to intervene to prevent costly outcomes such as ED visits and hospitalizations.

Help-Full - Jenny Gallagher, Co-Founder & CEO: The company operates a community network where participants of all ages get and give practical help, share skills and talents, and enjoy common interests. Utilizing technology, Help-Full connects members - old and younger - based on compatible backgrounds, interests, preferences and traits. The community runs on "Time Tokens," so members can pay for help with either money or time. Help-Full supports key social determinants of health: meaningful social interactions, opportunities to give back with a sense of purpose, and minimizes seniors' loneliness and life restrictions, enabling them to live longer, happier, independent lives.

Modio Health, Inc.'s Credentialing and Provider Management Platform - Kirk Heath, Founder & CEO: Modio's Platform is used by 200+ healthcare organizations nationwide to simplify and efficiently manage their provider credentialing processes. The cloud-based platform, called OneView, uses a blockchain type of mechanism that connects all entities associated with a provider with the same real-time data collection, which is automated, updated, easily accessed, and securely protected. Modio's HIPAA-compliant solution allows teams to securely manage and store credentials and licensure in one easily accessible location, slashing credentialing times and reducing administrative effort.

NEOFECT's RAPAEL Smart Glove for Home - Scott Kim, CEO: NEOFECT's Smart Glove takes traditional, proven rehabilitation exercises and applies them to games that patients look forward to repeating every day. The glove is a wearable, active finger and hand rehab solution that connects via Bluetooth to a TV or tablet to display movements on-screen, creating a gamified experience. Physicians can remotely and securely access performance data via the cloud to monitor and analyze progress, making at-home rehab possible, and patients can track their improvement, which helps keep them engaged and motivated in their own recovery process.

Innovations in Healthcare^TM ABBY Awards Dual Events, December 5th & 12th, 2018

ABL's ABBY Awards recognize and celebrate ten organizations which have brought to market innovative technologies and approaches to the delivery of healthcare that are dramatically reducing the cost of quality healthcare. At the December 5th and 12th Dual Events, following five different, live presentations made in each location by the leaders of the Finalist companies, each audience will cast their secret ballots to determine one Awardee in Southern California and a second Awardee in Northern California, who will each take home the coveted ABBY Award. Attendance at Innovations in Healthcare^TM is open to all ABL Members; contact [email protected] for more information about the Events.

Past ABBY Award Winners:

Previous ABBY Award Winners include numerous companies that have made breakthroughs and transformative advances in medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, information technology, and electronic solutions, as well as organizations that have applied innovative systems and technology to providing care and coverage, decreasing the numbers of uninsured, and engaging healthcare consumers more actively in their care and health status - all with a view to reducing the cost of quality care.  

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