FierceHealthIT Announces Top Innovators Award Winners

FierceHealthIT has announced the winners of its first-ever Top Health IT Innovators award featuring the top 10 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 significantly impact the doctor/patient relationship. Applications include a technology that will double-check drug side-effects, interactive in-room content for hospitals which 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.

"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 of 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 Health IT Innovators are:

1. Enhanced Medical Decisions (Cambridge, MA)
2. Practice Fusion (San Francisco, CA)
3. QlikTech (Radnor, PA)
4. Devon IT (King of Prussia, PA)
5. athenahealth (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)