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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