Innovative Healthcare Companies Wanted For The 2006 ABBY Awards

ORANGE, Calif., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization is now accepting nominations for the 2006 ABBY Awards, to be presented at the Eighth Annual Innovations in Healthcare(SM) Awards and Event Ceremony, on June 7, 2006, in Long Beach, California. At this event, nine organizations will be featured for their cutting-edge approaches to solving some of the toughest problems facing healthcare today.

This year’s ABBYs will recognize the solutions to significant medical or healthcare administrative problems with proven approaches that have achieved quantifiable results in three categories: Innovative Technology; Innovative Approaches to the Delivery of Healthcare; and Innovations in Consumer Empowerment.

All nominations must be submitted by Friday, March 10, 2006 to ABL Organization at abl.org. All nominated companies, or their nominated divisions, must have a product, service or application of technology that is in the marketplace or in use, or an innovative process with proven success metrics, that is contributing to the timely delivery of quality, cost-effective healthcare. Nominated companies must also have the concurrence of the company’s CEO (or division head) and this person must be available to make a presentation at the June 7, 2006 event.

Nominations will be reviewed in late-March by ABL’s Innovations in Healthcare Finalists Selection Committee and nine will be chosen to present at the June 7th Innovations In Healthcare(SM) Event, following which the event’s attendees will vote to determine who will take home the 2006 ABBY Awards.

The Eighth Annual Innovations in Healthcare(SM) Event and Awards Ceremony is open to ABL Members, as well as senior executives of therapeutic, diagnostic, medical device and healthcare information and services firms. For more information about it and/or the ABL Organization, please contact ABL at (714) 245-2400 or visit its website at abl.org.

About the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization:

For over 22 years, the ABL Organization has supported and fostered the sharing of best practices and innovations through its CEO-level Round Tables and Conferences. For the past seven years, at ABL’s Innovations in Healthcare(SM) Awards and Event, healthcare industry leaders have honored the organizations whose products and services are judged to be the most innovative, with proven metrics assuring their cost-effective quality. Also, year-round, through its array of Round Tables and events, ABL has helped enable the growth of many of California’s leading technology and healthcare companies since its founding in 1983. Through focused, confidential, monthly Round Tables and regularly-scheduled Conferences and Events, Members help each other capitalize on market trends and opportunities, helping to assure they are well positioned for corporate and personal success.

Adaptive Business Leaders Organization

CONTACT: Laura Grant, Director of Member Services, or Mimi Grant,President, both of Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization,+1-714-245-2400

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