Top IT Companies Awarded for Innovation and Market Potential

By HospiMedica staff writers
Posted on 16 Apr 2007
FierceHealthIT (Washington, DC, USA) announced the winners of its first-ever Top Health Information Technology (IT) Innovators award featuring the top 10 U.S. companies poised to make a major impact on the health IT industry.

The winners include several companies focused on consumer-related issues that have the potential to considerably affect the doctor/patient relationship. Applications include a technology that will double-check drug side-effects, interactive in-room content for hospitals that will bring new dimensions to caregiver-patient relationships, and an open source-based web application that allows patients to enter their symptoms and treatments and track outcomes.

FierceHealthIT, an internationally recognized email newsletter for health IT executives, evaluated numerous privately held firms based on their potential to influence, and in some case disrupt, the current state of the industry. The firms selected offered unique solutions to critical problems, strong leadership, and visionary takes on the role of health IT in improving operations and patient care.

"We're thrilled to be showcasing such cutting-edge work in this group of innovators. As the first ever group of winners, these companies certainly set a high bar,” said Anne Zieger, from FierceHealthIT. "These companies are driving the future of the industry, and some have the potential to cause a major shift in the business and cause major changes in the doctor-patient interactivity as soon as this year.”

The Top U.S. Health IT Innovators are:
1. Enhanced Medical Decisions (Cambridge, MA)
2. Practice Fusion (San Francisco, CA, USA)
3. QlikTech (Radnor, PA)
4. Devon IT (King of Prussia, PA)
5. Athena health (Watertown, MA)
6. MedApps (Scottsdale, AZ)
7. Get Well Networks (Bethesda, MD)
8. MDVIP (Boca Raton, FL)
9. PatientsLikeMe (Cambridge, MA)
10. NaviMedix (Cambridge, MA)

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