: PeriGen named among "Innovations in Healthcare" ABBY Awards finalists
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PeriGen,the leader in innovative perinatal decision support software to enhance clinical efficiency and standard care during childbirth, has been named one of nine finalists for the 16[sup]th[/sup] Annual Innovations in Healthcare[sup]sm
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ABBY Awards Event on Oct. 21.  Presented by the AdaptiveBusiness Leaders (ABL) Organization, the award recognizes innovative organizations and individuals who are dramatically reducing the cost of quality healthcare.



PeriGen’slatest ground-breaking solution is PeriCALM® CheckList™, a bedsideapplication that allows hospital labor & delivery (L&D) teams to recognize pending problems during labor and then take immediate action to improve the outcomes of newborns more easily and consistently. Specifically, the tool empowers L&D units to automate protocol checklists, integrating them right into current workflow. Checklists — the most common being one used to help manage induction — are mostly handled via inefficient paper or PDF formats. A 2014study by HCAof 14,398 term inductions reported that the use of an oxytocin checklist was associated with a reduction in both neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions and cesarean births. What’s more, noncompliance with checklists can be harmful and costly for hospitals. That study’s results also point to both the reduction in number of procedures requiring higher associated payer reimbursement and in errors related to oxytocin mismanagement that have the potential to incite million dollar lawsuits.
 
Seethe below Innovations in Healthcare ABBY Awards press release distributed today. It is also posted at: http://perigen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PR_9FinalistsNamed_IIH20151.pdf 


Ifyou’d like to discuss the PeriCALM Checklist in detail, feel free to contact me at ajenkins@acmarketingpr.com or 720-859-6930 MTto arrange interviews with PeriGen’s CEO Matthew Sappern and/or Emily Hamilton, MDCM, FRCSC, FACOG, Senior Vice President ofClinical Research. You can also visit http://perigen.com/pericalm-checklist/   Thankyou for your attention to PeriGen’s important IT achievement to give OB clinicians more focused time on clinical judgement and care to help deliver healthier babies.


Sincerely,
Angela Jenkins

Amendola Communications for PeriGen

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9Finalists Named for Innovations in Healthcare[sup]SM[/sup] ABBY Awards


--Winners to be Chosen October 21 in Long Beach


SantaAna, CA - August31, 2015Nine innovative healthcare companies (listed below) willcompete for the 2015 ABBY Awards, at the 16th Innovations in Healthcare[sup]SM[/sup]Awards Event, on October 21, 2015, in Long Beach. The Event, presented by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, recognizes innovative organizations and individuals who are dramatically reducing the cost of quality healthcare.


The ABBY Awards honor companies, selected from throughoutthe country, which have developed ways to lower the cost of providing quality healthcare through their medical or information technologies, or innovative approaches to the delivery of healthcare. The nine Finalists were selected by a Committee of “Champions” and judges, composed of ABL Members who are C-level healthcare executives with deep domain knowledge in each of the Award areas.


MimiGrant, President of ABL, and creator of the Innovations Awards Event 16years ago, commented: "All nine ABBY Award Finalists truly are exceptional. In fact, this year – more than any other in recent memory – all 37 of the Semi-Finalists wereexceptionally impressive, as well.  Tohave made it past the nomination process (where a number of companies were eliminated) to the Semi-Finals, ABBY Award nominees had to present metrics that proved that their health IT or telecom solution, medical device, or approach to the delivery of healthcare was addressing a major health issue, with an innovative solution, that was approved for use in the U.S. market, and – most important– had significant clinical and/or financial metrics that prove their product or serviceis reducing the cost of providing quality care. Increasingly, it will be innovative companies like these that will not only win ABBY Awards, but will be big winners as the healthcare industry shifts from ‘volume to value.’”


Three ABBY Award Winners will be chosen by secret ballotfollowing live presentations made by the chief executives of the nine Finalist organizations at the Awards Event. The ABBY Award judges will be the senior healthcare executives in attendance at the Event, held at the Long Beach Marriott, on October 21. Attendance is open to all ABL Members, as well as non-Member senior executives of healthcare providers, payers, health IT, medical technology, and services firms.


More detailsabout the Innovations in Healthcare[sup]SM[/sup] Leadership and ABBY AwardsEvent can be found at http://roundtables.abl.org/health/events/innovations-in-healthcare/


ABBYAward Finalists are:


St.Louis, MO’s Advanced ICU Care’s remote ICU patient monitoring solution serves hospitals withstate-of-the-art technology that provides a constant stream of patient-centric health data, along with smart algorithms and U.S.-board certified intensivist and critical care nursing resources. Advanced ICU Care brings 24/7/365 intensivist-led ICU patient care to a broad range of hospitals, freeing budget-constrained facilities from the requirement to incrementally invest in constant bedside staffing. Patients benefit from proactive clinical attention by critical care specialists who are always informed and always on duty. Advanced ICU Care collaborates with bedside care teams to deliver the best possible care to patients, and initiates rapid action for patients in need.


AlisoViejo, CA’s Crossover Health Inc. combines leading-edge technologies and contemporary healthcare facilitiesfocused on patient experience, providing employers with a new model of healthcare for their workers. Crossover provides innovative onsite and near-site clinics that provide personalized healthcare experiences. Comprehensive primary care, physical therapy, health coaches, and behaviorists work together to focus on patient outcomes. In addition, the team also provides a multi-disciplinary Proactive Approach To Health course, which has resulted in stress reduction, increased exercise, and improvement in quality of sleep. By focusing on enhanced primary and preventative healthcare as part of employee benefits, improved employee health positively affects a company’s productivity and bottom line.


Los Angeles Department ofHealth Services (LADHS)and Newport Beach, CA’s Safety Net Connect have teamedon an eConsult system to increase specialty care access for the Los Angeles safety net population. eConsult was deployed initially for 18 months in 2011 with the LA CareHealth Plan and LADHS. Since October 2013, LADHS has expanded the program in its network of hospitals  and clinics. eConsult provides primary carephysicians (PCPs) with an easy-to-use care coordination system that effectively triages access to specialty care. When PCPs send a secure request for a specialist consult, eConsult’s built-in decision support and referral guidelines help ensure all of the necessary information is provided – allowing for a more qualified peer-to-peer consultation.  


San Francisco, CA’s SpineZone has perfected a reliable, non-operative, andcomprehensive back pain management methodology that is administered by a multidisciplinary team of surgeons, physical therapists, physician assistants, and spine rehabilitation specialists. Patients are guided through their recovery with a fixed-length, customized program that employs computerized equipment, behavioral medicine, and highly trained practitioners to strengthen the isolated muscles of the back, and improve posture and flexibility. Providers rely on SpineZone because it uses the right healthcare resources at the right time, essentially eliminating overtreatment and reducing the costs of treating chronic back pain patients 25% below the national average.


WoodlandHills, CA’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD)’s Skills program is a web-based system for designing andimplementing comprehensive treatment plans for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that are tailored to meet each patient’s specific needs. Skills includes a well-validated assessment that covers age-appropriate skills across eight developmental domains, and with its accompanying Skills LogBook app, enables users to collect ongoing treatment data, intuitively tracking treatment progress via easy-to-read graphs and charts. Skills supports treatment plan development and implementation, processes clinicians would otherwise spend hours performing, and improves user efficiency on many levels, both reducing treatment costs and allowing clinicians to treat more patients.


Aliso Viejo, CA’s CNS Response, Inc. serves the mentalhealth industry with their PEER (PsychiatricEncephalographic Evaluation Registry) Report, which was developed by physicians toprovide objective information about medication response for similar patients. PEER combines a "crowdsourced" physician outcome registry with EEG, an accepted, well-normed test of brain function. The PEER Report provides the prescriber withadjunctive information which, based on the outcomes of patients with similar EEG attributes, can help guide the selection of medications which are most likely to work and those which should be avoided. PEER provides the prescriber with objective, personalized information for the patient and, therefore, the use of trial-and-error prescribing is reduced.


MountainView, CA’s drchrono’s mobile EHR was voted the #1 iPad EHRthree years in a row by Black Book and is also available on clinicians’ iPhones and Apple Watches. Over 70,000 clinicians use drchrono, which addresses the needs of today's small-to mid-size physiican practices by providing comprehensive EHR, practice management, and medical billing and revenue cycle management solutions that include scheduling, reminders, clinical documentation, the ability to order labs and Rx, and a patient portal. With an open API, drchrono can integrate with other apps and various labs, enabling providers to view results in real-time. All of its EHR and managed billing services are ICD-10 ready. Individual physicians can access the “Asclepius” starter plan for free,allowing them to access drchrono’s basic features.


Irvine,CA’s Harbor Health Systems’Harbor One Medical Provider Network (MPN) serves companies’ workers compensation needs with an immediately availablenetwork of high-performing physicians covering the entire state of California. Through Harbor’s Care Concierge service, these physicians and patients are connected to top providers of ancillary services. Harbor’s OnTrack service continually guides the injured worker’s MPN participation throughout the case, to be sure the care plan is always on track and moving towards a fast and complete recovery. Harbor Health Systems’ MPN clients experience cost savings of up to 20% with Harbor’s outcomes-based networks and its proprietary scoring technology, as well as additional savings through reduced litigation and increased productivity. 


Cranbury,NJ’s PeriGen Inc.’s PeriCALMChecklist is a real-time bedside ITapplication designed to enhance clinician efficiency, consistency, and timely recognition of impending problems in maternal labor. Its analytic software reads the tracing used to monitor fetal heart rate and contractions, and its pattern recognition component identifies and measures the features that clinicians use to guide the use of oxytocin (which is used to induce contractions in over half of U.S. births). PeriCALM notifies clinicians when the tracing analysis exceeds predefined criteria established by the clinical institution, and color-coded long-term displays let clinicians see trends at a glance. For labor and delivery nurses, the PeriCALM Checklist reduces tedious repetitive calculations so they can focus more time on clinical judgement and care.


Past ABBY Award Winners


Previous ABBY Award Winners include numerous companies that havemade 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.


About the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization
Since 1989, the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL)has helped its Members grow great companies through its Healthcare CEO Round Tables. Each month, Members leverage each other’s skills, expertise, and connections, in a confidential, personal advisory board setting. During each session, Members share best practices with their non-competitive peers as they share “What’s Up?” and tackle topics like: “Reducingthe Spend on the Medically Needy 5%,” “Implications of Expanded Medi-Cal for You ,” “Creating a Culture ofAccountability,” and “The App Will See You Now.” Also, each session has aFeatured Member or Guest Speaker who makes aStrategic Advisory Board presentation, imparting valuable insights and in return receiving leveraged feedback from the Group.


ABL Members are alsoencouraged to attend frequent ABL Workshops and Conferences. The largest of these is the Innovations in Healthcare[sup]SM[/sup] ABBY Awards Event. Otherevents held in 2015 include the 12[sup]th[/sup] annual Top Tech Trends, Developing anEffective Board of Directors for Growing Companies,” “Beginning with the End in Mind,” and Member Socials in bothNorthern and Southern California. In addition to the Members’ peer mentors, each Round Table’s professional facilitator serves as an objective business advisor, offering executive and industry insights.


ABL’s Healthcare RoundTables are held in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Oakland. ABL’s separate Technology Round Tables, launched in 1983, are held throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties. More information about and testimonials from ABL Members can be found at http://www.abl.org.


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Laura Grant, Events Director, at 714/245-1427, or [email=janet@abl.org]Janet
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,Publications Manager, at 509/481-7461

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