01 / Epocrates >>
For creating software that gives doctors and nurses instant information on drug-to-drug interactions, treatment recommendations, and more on their mobile devices or laptops. Coming up: mobile access to electronic health records.
02 / SynCardia Systems >>
For giving mobility to artificial-heart recipients. Syncardia makes the world's only FDA-approved completely artificial heart. Now, thanks to a 13-pound portable power supply, recipients can leave the hospital for the first time and return home. During a ten-year study for the FDA, 79 percent of patients successfully lived on the man-made heart until receiving a human heart transplant.
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Author: Ellen McGirt and Chuck Salter
