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ARUP Laboratories' ARUP Consult® Named Gold Winner of 2007 eHealthcare Leadership Awards
Salt Lake City, November 27, 2007 - ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a leader in innovative laboratory research and development, was presented last month with a Gold, 2007 eHealthcare Leadership Award for Best Design for Physician/Clinician-Focused Web Site. ARUP's Web site, named ARUP Consult®, The Physician's Guide to Laboratory Test Selection and Interpretation, was selected from more than 1,100 entries. ARUP Consult is an online resource which offers health care providers no-cost access to current laboratory testing information, as well as concise diagnostic advice regarding test selection and interpretation for more than 1,500 laboratory tests. ARUP Consult is available at www.arupconsult.com or m.arupconsult.com for mobile users.
Some 225 healthcare organizations, representing a broad industry spectrum, received recognition for their outstanding Web sites at a special presentation in Las Vegas on November 4 during the Eleventh Annual Healthcare Internet Conference. A total of 101 individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet judged the entries.
"There are clear and unmistakable signs that interest in the Web and emerging technologies is hot," says Mark Gothberg, eHealthcare Leadership Awards chairman. "The 2007 awards program attracted a huge number of entries from a wide variety of healthcare organizations. Despite this year's higher threshold for winning, a record number of sites earned an award." "ARUP Consult has concentrated information into a concise test selection and interpretation tool, allowing users to make informed diagnostic decisions," said ARUP's medical director of Informatics, Brian Jackson, M.D., M.S., who heads the ARUP Consult project. "At ARUP Laboratories, we are focused on building tools that enable physicians to optimize patient care and improve the diagnostic process." Winners of awards represented 17 industry classifications, from hospitals and health systems to pharmaceutical firms and online health companies. Judges looked at how sites compared with others in their organization's classification. They also reviewed sites based on a proprietary multi-point standard of Internet excellence. The best Intranet site category, for example, had to pass muster on more than 60 factors.
"As always, competition was particularly intense in the large hospital, healthcare system, and managed care classifications," says Gothberg. Best Health/Healthcare Content, Best Site Design, and Best Overall Internet Site categories drew the most entries.
The eHealthcare Leadership Awards program was developed and first presented eight years ago by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, a leading Internet resource published by Health Care Communications, Rye, NY. The Eleventh Annual Healthcare Internet Conference was sponsored by Greystone.Net, an Atlanta-based strategy firm, and StayWell Custom Communications, an Evanston, IL-based content supplier. More information, including a complete list of winners and judges, is available on www.strategichealthcare.com.
