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Scottsdale, AZ's MedApps, Inc., whose Wireless Health Monitoring System enables people with chronic diseases to automatically transfer their bio-metric readings from their MedApps HealthPAL™ directly to a central server for physician review and records storage. CEO Kent Dicks developed the HealthPAL with features easy enough for his mother-in-law to use routinely.

Los Angeles, CA's MMR Information Systems, Inc., whose MyMedicalRecords.com is the first web-based Personal Health Record that is 100% patient-centric and designed to help health consumers manage personal health information from any provider they are seeing. CEO Robert Lorsch vowed to create an easy-to-store-and-retrieve PRM after his own personal ordeal tracking multiple providers and meds needed to treat his illness successfully.

Innovations in Medical/Biotechnology category:

Union City, CA's Abaxis, Inc., whose point-of-care blood chemistry analyzer is the only such product to achieve CLIA status for complex, comprehensive chemistry. Abaxis' tests enable clinicians to quickly and easily receive complete diagnostics for nearly any internal organ function. Abaxis brought to market technology originally developed for the NASA space program - 20 years ago.

San Diego, CA's Biomatrica Inc., whose products for the storage of biological samples at room temperature offer a more than 15-fold cost savings over conventional freezer storage, simultaneously saving space and kilowatts. Company founders Judy Muller-Cohn and Rolf Muller developed the biomimicry technology as a solution to their own problems in the lab trying to preserve RNA, DNA and protein samples.

Pasadena, CA's Osmetech Molecular Diagnostics, whose eSensor® XT-8 System is a test and instrument for detecting multiple genetic variations that identify patients at risk for warfarin sensitivity - Coumadin is the most wide
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