Finalists Announced for Everyday Health

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 30, 2013

What are the consumer electronic innovations anticipated to shift the paradigm of health management in 2014? Everyday Health, a leading digital health and wellness company, along with the Digital Health Summit, today announced the finalists for the inaugural Everyday Health Awards for Innovation, honoring outstanding achievement in technology innovation aimed at improving health outcomes. Among the finalists is an app that can eliminate a need for reading glasses, a smart pill bottle that accounts and encourages compliance, devices that reinvent the "house call" allowing doctors to manage a patient’s healthcare remotely, a smart shirt with micro sensors built into the fabric for ongoing monitoring, and a company using digital health technology to improve the health and wellness for five million of our nation’s truck drivers.

Finalists were selected by an expert judging panel. Consumer voting is open now through January 7, 2014 at 11 p.m. EST online at Awards.DigitalHealthSummit.com where people can cast their votes for the finalists across the five categories: Patient Diagnostics & Management, Emerging Tech, Inclusive Innovation, The Healthy Consumer, and The Healthiest Company. Online voting will account for 30 percent of the total score awarded to each product.

Finalists for the Everyday Health Awards for Innovation will be on display daily in the Everyday Health exhibit in the Digital Health Summit TechZone at 2014 International CES in the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center (LVCC), South Hall 2, directly behind UnitedHealthcare booth #25515.

Winners will be announced at a special live award ceremony at the Digital Health Summit on January 9, 2014 at 4:30 p.m. PT (LVCC, North Hall, N250). Follow #EHAwardsCES for live results.

The 2014 Everyday Health Awards for Innovation Finalists:

Category: Patient Diagnostics & Management

AliveCor Heart Monitor

AliveCor’s Heart Monitor is an FDA cleared, single-channel ECG recorder that is portable and easy to use. The Heart Monitor leverages the prescribed patient’s smartphone to record, display, store and transfer their ECG through the AliveECG application. AliveCor’s Heart Monitor is intended for use by licensed U.S. medical professionals and prescribed patients.

SmartWatch by Smart Monitor

SmartWatch provides a comprehensive care management solution that acts as a safety net for patients prone to convulsions, seizures and tremors. A wearable device used in conjunction with a smartphone app of patented algorithms, it recognizes patterns of repetitive shaking movements such as those caused by convulsions, tremors and seizures and alerts family members’ mobile phones in seconds, enabling timely intervention. The solution provides recording of valuable episodic parameters and temporal tracking of abnormal motion activity, which was never possible in an outpatient setting previously.

Telcare Blood Glucose Monitor (BGM)

Telcare’s Verizon Wireless-powered, cellular-enabled diabetes management technology platform improves diabetes self-management by capturing real-time data and providing rapid, personalized, and contextual messaging to individuals as they take a blood glucose reading. Blood glucose data from the glucose meter is automatically sent to a secure cloud-based server where it can be shared with physicians and care managers, making provider interventions and interactions more timely and impactful. This information may also trigger an automated educational message in response to the reading right on the patient’s meter. In addition, patients and caregivers can access data about glucose readings and trends via a secure portal or mobile application.

Category: Emerging Tech