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Osmetech a Finalist for 2009 ABBY Award
25 August 2009
Orange, CA, August 24, 2009… Osmetech plc, the fast-growing international molecular diagnostics company, is a Finalist for a 2009 Innovations in HealthcareSM “ABBY” Award, for its eSensor® XT-8 System -- an “Innovation in Medical/Biotechnology.”
Presented by the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL), the 11th Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards Event will take place October 28, in Newport Beach. Osmetech is one of nine Finalists vying to win one of three prestigious ABBY Awards, which honor innovative approaches and technologies that reduce the cost of providing quality healthcare. Also at the event, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chairman and CEO of Abraxis Health, will receive the 2009 “Leadership in Innovation” Award and make the Keynote presentation.
Osmetech’s eSensor® XT-8 System is an FDA-cleared test and instrument for detecting multiple genetic variations that identify those patients at risk for sensitivity to warfarin, the world’s most widely-used oral anticoagulant to prevent blood clots, heart attacks, and stroke. eSensor XT-8 allows for estimation of the optimal and safe warfarin dose.
The nine ABBY Award Finalists were selected from over 50 nominees – and 37 Semi-Finalists – chosen for best meeting the criteria of having an innovative product/service that is approved for use in the U.S. marketplace, with clinical and financial metrics that prove their technology or approach reduces the cost of providing quality healthcare. ABBY Award winners will be selected via secret ballot by ABL Members, after viewing presentations from each Finalist company. The Awards will be announced and presented at the Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards Event, which will be open to ABL Members, as well as non-Member senior executives.
Now in its 11th year, ABL’s Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards Event recognizes organizations that have demonstrated transformative advances in medical devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, information technology and approaches to providing care and coverage, decreasing the numbers of uninsured, and engaging healthcare consumers more actively in their care and health status, all of which reduces the cost of providing quality healthcare. Details about the Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards Event – including the complete list of 2009 ABBY Award Finalists – can be found at www.abl.org/iih2009.htm.
About the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization
ABL supports the needs of its Member CEOs by providing a place for
top-level executives to draw on the experience, knowledge and skill sets
of their peers in a vertical industry, personal advisory board –
“multi-coach approach” – setting. Members meet once a month for a
half-day Round Table meeting with a group of peer senior executives from
non-competing companies. Members also gather several times a year at
workshops and conferences to exchange ideas and connect with other chief
executives. ABL's Chief Executive Leadership Development Round Table
program is offered in California's Greater Los Angeles, Orange, San
Francisco and Santa Clara Counties. More information can be found at
http://www.abl.org.
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