5 Finalists Selected for 20th Innovations in HealthcareTM ABBY Award;
Winner to Be Chosen on December 12, 2018, in San Francisco

November 14, 2018:  Five of healthcare's most innovative companies have been selected as Finalists to present their approaches, medical devices, health IT, digital health, and diagnostic solutions, at ABL Organization's 20th Innovations in HealthcareTM ABBY Awards Event, to be held on December 12, 2018, in San Francisco, California. The event will be hosted by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, whose first awards event was held in 1999, and since then has recognized over 60 innovative organizations whose approaches and technologies are making dramatic inroads in the quest to improve the quality of care and health outcomes - while reducing its cost. And this year, more than any other before, many of these innovations are blending technology with the human touch provided by providers, caregivers, and even family members and friends.

At the December 12th event, following live presentations made by the leaders of each Finalist company, each audience member will cast their secret ballot to determine one Awardee, who will take home the coveted ABBY Award.

The 20th Innovations in HealthcareTM ABBY Award Finalists, in alphabetical order, are:


 
ATLAS LIFT TECH
Eric Race, Founder, President & CEO  
Atlas
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
Care3
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
Help-Full
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’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.


  ALSO AT THE EVENT, the “ABBY Update” presentation will be made by Dave Sayen, currently a Senior VP at Gorman Health Group, and previously a CMS Regional Administrator for Region IX (CA, AZ, NV, HI, and Pacific Territories). Several years ago, Dave took home an ABBY Award on behalf of CMS’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation - for its “Bold Experiment in Government Payment Innovation.” Here, Dave will share what’s happened since, lessons learned, tweaks made, and the legacy of the Innovation Center.


Meanwhile, information on the upcoming 19th Innovations in HealthcareTM ABBY Awards event to be held on December 5, 2018, in Long Beach, CA can be found here. In preparation for this year's Dec. 5th and 12th Events, ABL's Finalist Selection Committee - a group of Healthcare Executives with deep domain knowledge in the areas represented by this year's Semi-Finalists - spent a recent morning presenting and discussing some 30 ABBY Award-nominated Semi-Finalists to the Group. Following discussions about each nominated organization, the Committee voted by secret ballot to select the Finalists. Further information about the Innovations in HealthcareTM ABBY Awards events is available by emailing [email protected].

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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