SAN ANTONIO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vidacare®, the leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of advanced intraosseous (IO) technology, today announced that The Wall Street Journal has named its EZ-IO product system as sole winner in the overall Gold category and winner of the medical device category in the eighth annual Innovation Award competition. 700 entries were submitted; the 15 judges evaluated 160 entries for Gold, Silver and Bronze, and “looked for innovations that broke new ground in their fields and that demonstrated some measurable impact,” according to the publication.