ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CNS Response (OTCQB:CNSO) won the Platinum Innovations in Healthcaresm Award by the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization (ABL), a healthcare CEO organization focused on growing great companies. The ABBY awards, held yesterday in Long Beach, CA, recognize the most innovative national firms that improve the delivery and quality of healthcare, while lowering its cost.
“CNS Response addresses a major health issue for a significant portion of our population who wrestle with mental health issues,” said ABL President Mimi Grant. “CNS’ PEER Online solution impressed the judges on ABL’s Finalists Selection Committee that it was not only innovative, but has significant clinical and financial metrics that prove their service is reducing the cost of providing quality care. Increasingly, it will be innovative companies, like CNS Response, that will not only win ABBY Awards, but will be big winners as the healthcare industry shifts from ‘volume to value.’”
The finalist event was held before a live audience of CEO’s, ABL members and supporters. ABBY Award Winners were chosen by secret ballot following live presentations made by the chief executives of the nine Finalist organizations. This is CEO George Carpenter’s 2nd ABBY award. He previously won the Platinum Award for Workwell Systems in 2004.
“The ABBY award is a win for the more than 10,000 patients and their doctors who contributed their outcomes data to help others receive more targeted therapy for mental health illnesses,” said Chairman of the Board Dr. Robin Smith.
About CNS Response Inc.
CNS Response (www.cnsresponse.com) provides a unique set of reference data and analytic tools for clinicians and researchers in psychiatry. While treatment for mental disorders has doubled in the last 20 years, it is estimated that 17 million Americans have failed two or more medication therapies for their mental disorders. The Company’s Psychiatric EEG Evaluation Registry, or PEER Online, is a new registry and reporting platform that allows medical professionals to exchange treatment outcome data for patients referenced to objective neurophysiology data obtained through a standard electroencephalogram (EEG). Based on the company’s original physician-developed database, there are now more than 38,000 outcomes for over 10,000 unique patients in the PEER registry. The objective of PEER Online is to reduce trial and error pharmacotherapy, which is the dominant approach for treatment resistant patients.
To read more about the benefits of this patented technology for patients, physicians and payers, please visit www.cnsresponse.com. Medical professionals interested in learning more about PEER can contact CNS Response representatives at PEERinfo@cnsresponse.com.
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