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Date:10/21/2009

ducts and services, their innovations are also fundamental sources of increasing health, and doing it cost-effectively," said Mimi Grant, President of ABL.

Divided into three categories, the 2009 Innovations in Healthcaresm ABBY Award Finalists are:

Innovative Approaches to the Delivery of Healthcare category:

Santa Monica, CA's Dakim, Inc., whose BrainFitness products provide a customized, rigorous brain workout in six cognitive domains, designed and engineered so that most seniors - even those with dementia - can successfully use the system on their own. CEO Dan Michel founded the company in 2001 as a direct result of his experience caring for his father during his 13-year battle with Alzheimer's.

Boulder Creek, CA's HeartMath, whose stress reduction and performance-enhancing programs are based on practical techniques, innovative feedback technology and robust scientific research, which has verified measurable, sustainable results, which also bring immediate stress relief. CEO Bruce Cryer has been fine-tuning HeartMath's "product line" of techniques and technologies for 18 years.

Oakland, CA's Kaiser Permanente's Online Services, whose My Health Manager, which integrates with Kaiser's electronic health record, provides patients email communication with their doctors, online appointment scheduling, prescription refills, lab result access, immunization records, and more. Kaiser Permanente was launched nearly 65 years as a break-through innovation in health delivery, and just keeps on innovating.

Innovations in Healthcare Information and Telecommunications Technology category:

San Mateo, CA's Epocrates, whose mobile and online medical reference software provides physicians - and now consumers - access to critical clinical information on their PDAs and smartphones. President Jeff Tangney co-founded Epocrates in 1998 and today, over 800,000 healthcare professionals use Epocrates to help them
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