ARUP Consult® Takes Top Prize in Life Sciences/Health Care Category

SALT LAKE CITY, February 12, 2008-On January 31st, Utah Business magazine and Wasatch Digital IQ announced the winners of the first annual IQ Awards. In an event celebrating the technological advances of 30 local companies, 10 were ultimately recognized as the "best of the best." Of the dozens of companies nominated, ARUP Laboratories walked away with one of those 10 coveted accolades, capturing the Life Sciences/Health Care award.

The IQ Award recognition program highlights the most exciting and innovative products, processes, and procedures coming out of Utah's leading-edge companies. It was created to spotlight those pioneers who are breaking boundaries and creating products that will change the way the world lives, thinks, and works.

"Utah has a significant history in technological innovations, and the time has come for the companies behind these innovations to receive some well-deserved recognition," said Martin Lewis, publisher of Utah Business and Wasatch Digital IQ, at the event. "These awards celebrate the innovative products, processes, and procedures that these Utah companies have developed." "The 30 finalists we honor today collectively represent that which is so right about the state of Utah business today," Lewis continued. "You represent the future of Utah, and as a result of your efforts our business climate is stronger, our opportunity is richer, and our community is a better place."

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.