Joe Kiani, CEO of Masimo Corporation (in Irvine), Jay Short, Ph.D., CEO of Diversa Corporation (in San Diego) and Adam Singer, M.D., CEO of IPC-The Hospitalist Company (in North Hollywood), respectively took home the Platinum, Gold and Silver "ABBY" Awards at the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization's Fifth Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards and Event, held Wednesday, June 18, at the Hyatt Regency, Irvine.
The three innovators were selected to receive the gold statuette from among a group of nine Innovations in HealthcareSM finalists for their outstanding advancements to the field of healthcare in medical technology, bio technology and information technology-enhanced healthcare services. According to Mimi Grant, President of ABL, the 60-plus judges, primarily ABL Members and other healthcare industry CEO's and Division heads attending the Event, found their greatest challenge of the day was selecting just three companies to win the ABBY among the nine finalists, each of whom presented a compelling case as to why and how their product or service significantly advanced the quality of patient life or enabled the business of healthcare to be conducted more cost effectively.
Joe Kiani, CEO of Masimo Corporation, took home the Platinum "ABBY." Masimo has developed proprietary signal processing and sensor technologies for cost-effective, noninvasive patient monitoring, improving patient outcomes and reducing the cost of care through its Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry technology. Joe has also brought leadership to the medical technology industry by breaking through the often bureaucratic hurdles established by some large healthcare systems and Group Purchasing Organizations.
Jay Short, Ph.D., CEO of Diversa Corporation received the Gold Innovations in HealthcareSM Award. Diversa is a leader in the discovery, evolution, and production of commercially valuable molecules with pharmaceutical applications, such as optimized monoclonal antibodies and orally active drugs. The company also developed a cutting edge technology that allows ultra high-throughput, resulting in faster new drug discovery, enabling the fast-tracking of the next cancer or autoimmune disease treatment development.
Adam Singer, M.D. and CEO of IPC - The Hospitalist Company was awarded the Silver "ABBY." In 1991, IPC pioneered hospitalist care: full-time, acute primary care specialists who focus exclusively on patients receiving inpatient care. IPC-LINK® is the company's proprietary clinical repository of best practices (and much more) that each of IPC's 400 physicians can easily access on their wireless hand-held computers, thus increasing economic efficiency while enhancing quality of care.
The other finalists included:
David Adamson, M.D., is Chairman and CEO of Advanced Reproductive Care, Inc, which is the only national organization of physician specialists in fertility care, who also have developed innovative payment plans.
Eleanor Levin, M.D., is the Clinical Lead of Kaiser Permanente's Comprehensive Coronary Artery Disease Program, which has dramatically reduced the number of Kaiser patients suffering and dieing from coronary artery disease
Bob Watson is President and CEO of Concuity, Inc., which provides an enterprise-wide information system that helps providers create and negotiate better contracts with payers and collect what's owed them.
John O'Shaughnessy is President of Government Management Services, Inc., which created and operates FACIS®, the Fraud and Abuse Control Information System, for verifying the credentials of, and reports sanctions against, physicians and other clinicians.
Ed Fotsch, M.D. is CEO of Medem, Inc., which, backed by the AMA, developed this physician-patient communications network to facilitate online access to information and care for more than 90,000 physicians and their patients.
Richard Brumley, M.D. is the Physician in Charge of Kaiser Permanente's TriCentral Palliative Care Program, which cares for those with serious, advanced, life-limiting illnesses and is focused on their quality of life.
About the ABL Organization
From its inception, 20 years ago, the purpose of the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL; originally named SO/CAL/TEN) has been the sharing of best practices and innovative approaches that propel business growth. Today the Organization facilitates nine monthly Round Tables (from San Diego to San Francisco) and holds special forums throughout the year -- like Innovations in HealthcareSM -- that enable its healthcare and technology Members to learn from each other. Further, for ABL's healthcare Members there is a particular focus on how to cost-effectively apply innovative approaches to delivering high quality healthcare.
