PRESS RELEASE - May 14, 2009
PharmaSURVEYOR Awarded "Red Herring 100 North America"
Recognizing the most Promising Technology Startups
Showcasing Innovations in Turbulent Times
Foster City, CA. May 14, 2009 - PharmaSURVEYOR, the most advanced drug safety utility, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America Award. The Red Herring editorial team deploys a detailed process to whittle down a pool of 1,000 eligible, promising companies to the 200 Finalists and in a last round decided for the top 100 winners of this important North American award. Evaluations are made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The Winners, elite executives and venture capital leaders from North America celebrateed the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in San Diego, May 11-14, 2009.
To be selected as a Red Herring 100 finalist is a mark of distinction and high honor. Only 1200 companies are chosen as winners out of a pool of thousands. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as invaluable instruments to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
PharmaSURVEYOR has been recognized for its life saving drug safety utility, available free on the web. In just a few minutes consumers or professionals can enter a person's list of drugs, review their combined side effect risks and drug interactions, search to see if symptoms might really be caused by their drugs, determine which drugs are most problematic and find substitute drugs which will reduce their risks of side effects and interactions.
"PharmaSURVEYOR is helping save lives and I trust Red Herring may contribute to expanding its reach", said Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring. "PharmaSURVEYOR stood out amongst thousands of companies during our extensive selection process and due diligence and we are impressed with their exciting new advancements in technology."
"Red Herring is a Silicon Valley institution discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures since 1993. PharmaSURVEYOR is excited to be recognized by them and included in such an illustrious group," said Erick Von Schweber, PharmaSURVEYOR's Chief Executive Officer.
About PharmaSURVEYOR
PharmaSURVEYOR, the most advanced drug safety utility, goes far beyond drug interaction checkers, is free to consumers at www.pharmasurveyor.com and is available as an online service for integration with healthcare websites, EMR, EHR, PHR and medical applications including Drug Utilization Review, Medication Therapy Management and Medication Reconciliation. Powered by combinatorial risk assessment and resolution, consumers, clinicians, providers and payers can now identify, diagnose and resolve adverse drug side effects and interactions that are responsible for 1 in 10 American fatalities at a cost of $177 Billion annually. For more information contact linda@pharmasurveyor.com.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com and for more about the conference please check out http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica09/index.html
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