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Healthcare IT Innovation Award Finalist 2009

OBS Medical’s BioQT Recognized as Finalist for Prestigious “Healthcare IT Innovation Award”

INDIANAPOLIS (April 22, 2009) – OBS Medical’s BioQT™ technology has been recognized as a top finalist for the prestigious TechPoint Mira Award “Healthcare IT Innovation Award”. Now in its 10th year, the 2009 Mira Awards presented by BKD represents the top technology businesses, business professionals and educators in the state of Indiana. BKD is the CPA and advisory firm of choice for growing companies and is one of the ten largest such firms in the United States.

“To receive a record number of entries into the Mira Awards competition and to see so many technology-related companies thriving—particularly during the current national economic downturn—is a real testament to the strength of Indiana’s tech sector,” said Jim Jay, president and CEO of TechPoint. “The Mira Awards recognize the achievements of some outstanding performers and contributors.”

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“We are honored to be recognized by the respected Mira Awards,” says OBS Medical’s Chief Operating Officer, Wayne Nethercutt. To be recognized a second time for another OBS patient safety algorithm technology demonstrates the abilities of the R&D team through their collaborative work with Oxford University to develop influential medical technologies. In 2007, the Visensia® hospital patient safety technology was also recognized by the Mira Awards and OBS Medical was named a top finalist for the “Health & Life Sciences Gazelle Company Award“. “We are very pleased by the clinical and scientific recognition our BioQT and Visensia patient safety technologies have received. Our recent organization changes enable us to focus on commercialization activities for our current products in the US while our R&D team continues to enhance these products and develop new algorithm technologies with Oxford University in the UK,” says Nethercutt.