ATLANTA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Alere, one of the
nation's top providers of integrated health and wellness programs
to health plans and employers, was named 2010 Innovator of the Year
by Pegasystems, a leader in business process management (BPM).
Pegasystems presented the award to Alere at the PegaWORLD
conference, the BPM industry's premier event, during a presentation
to the company's healthcare clients in Philadelphia on April
27.
The Innovator of the Year Award is given to the company that has
demonstrated new and effective ways to leverage Pegasystems'
technology to create a tactical/competitive advantage.
Pegasystems' SmartBPM accelerates building solutions to
enable business and IT to collaborate more seamlessly through
automation.
The Innovation award was one of three given in the healthcare
industry in North America. Alere
won the award for the company's innovative approach to deploying
Pegasystems' SmartBPM technology in the development of Alere's next
generation Apollo integrated health management system.
"Apollo is the platform that allows us to deliver our vision of
providing personal health support for each individual," noted
Tom Underwood, CEO of Alere. "It is
a dynamic system that is designed to give providers and patients
comprehensive real-time information so they can achieve better
health outcomes. Pega helped us achieve our goals in bringing a
leading health technology solution to market, and we are honored to
be recognized for our efforts."
Apollo is Alere's healthcare delivery system that provides a
single, integrated and transparent online patient view to all care
providers. Apollo enables Alere to facilitate better
healthcare decisions by providing accurate, timely and actionable
information to participants, their physicians and Alere clients,
with the goal of improved quality of care and reduced costs.
SmartBPM provided Alere with an enterprise repository and a
unified Web-based design environment to manage its BPM processes.
With the technology, Alere is able to provide real-time
disease management and wellness services as well as integration of
biometric devices and alerts to physicians and healthcare
providers.
About Pegasystems
Pegasystems (Nasdaq: PEGA), the leader in Business Process
Management, provides software to drive revenue growth, productivity
and agility for the world's most sophisticated organizations.
Customers use our award-winning SmartBPM® suite to improve customer
service, reach new markets and boost operational effectiveness.
Our patented SmartBPM® technology makes enterprise applications
easy to build and change by directly capturing business objectives
and eliminating manual programming. SmartBPM® unifies business
rules and processes into composite applications that leverage
existing systems -- empowering businesspeople and IT staff to Build
for Change®, deliver value quickly and outperform their
competitors.
Pegasystems' suite is complemented by best-practice frameworks
designed for leaders in financial services, insurance, healthcare,
government, life sciences, communications, manufacturing and other
industries.
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA,
Pegasystems has offices in North
America, Europe and
Asia Pacific. Visit us at
www.pega.com.
About Alere
Alere (www.alere.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (www.invernessmedical.com)
(NYSE: IMA). Alere, a Latin verb, meaning "to care for" or "to
support", offers the most patient-centered health management
services available from a single provider in the industry. Alere
services provide health interventions that are designed for the
entire lifespan from pre-cradle (high-risk pregnancy and NICU
management) to end-of-life care (complex care) as well as the
continuum of health from wellness (health and productivity
programs) and prevention to total health management of the
individual for those having various chronic illnesses.
Alere is a trademark of the Inverness Medical group of
companies.
SOURCE Alere