Nutrimaps com is Recognized as a leader in Disease Management eNutrition
Released on = June 15, 2007, 1:25 pm
Press Release Author = Specialty Diets, Inc.
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Press Release Summary = Nutrimaps.com was recognized in the past week as a leading disease management website by the World Wide Web Health Awards and at the American Diabetes Association\'s 54th Annual Advanced Postgraduate session.
Press Release Body = Malvern, PA - March 1, 2007: Nutrimaps.com was recognized in the past week as a leading disease management website by the World Wide Web Health Awards and at the American Diabetes Association\'s 54th Annual Advanced Postgraduate session.
The Health Information Resource Center announced this week the winners of its bi-annual World Wide Web Health Awards, an effort to recognize the best Web-based health-related content for consumers and professionals as well as providing a \"seal of quality\" for electronic health information. A panel of international health information and Internet experts judged entries based on accuracy, success in reaching the targeted audience and overall quality, and gave Nutrimaps.com an award in the Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention Information Class. The WWW Health Awards success marks Specialty Diets\' fourth award win in the past year for separate implementations of its ForMyDiet(TM) nutrition and Disease management platform.
Nutrimaps.com was also recognized as a leading diabetes eNutrition source at the American Diabetes Association\'s 54th Annual Advanced Postgraduate Course, by Lona Sandon, MEd, RD, LD, from UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, during her workshop titled \"Useful Tools on the Web: For Patients and Professionals\". Ms. Sandon is a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, and was previously awarded the Excellence in Media Award by the Dallas Dietetic Association, an award that recognizes registered dietitians who have made significant contributions to assisting the media in providing sound scientific information to the public.
"I am very pleased that Nutrimaps.com is already gaining momentum," said Ami Assayag, CEO of Specialty Diets. "It is especially satisfying because we are recognized by both the medical and the health information communities. These are two fields that Specialty Diets is determined to unite through our online nutrition and disease management application\".
About The World Wide Web Health Awards The World Wide Web Health Awards is organized by the Health Information Resource Center (HIRC), a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials. This Web-based health awards is an extension of the HIRC\'s 13-year old National Health Information Awards (NHIA), the largest program of its kind in the United States. There were nearly 1,000 entries in this year\'s National Health Information Awards from hundreds of organizations.
About the 54th Annual Advanced Postgraduate Course The American Diabetes Association\'s 54th Annual Advanced Postgraduate Course took place in New York, NY from February 23rd to February 25th, 2007. The Advanced Postgraduate Course offers, in general sessions and intensive workshops, the latest information on the management of diabetes and its complications; practical tips and proven strategies for improving patient care; translation of the latest diabetes research into clinical practice. The sessions are designed specifically for physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, podiatrists, psychologists, and other health care professionals who care for patients with diabetes and who manage the complications related to this disease.
About Specialty Diets Specialty Diets offers a privately branded global turnkey solution that bridges pharmaceutical and healthcare product companies directly with healthcare professionals and patients that need to manage medical diets. By delivering cutting edge, web-based marketing strategies, Specialty Diets enables pharmaceutical and healthcare product companies to build a lasting and trusted relationship with their customers by improving patient quality of life and healthcare professionals' quality of care.
For additional information, please contact Specialty Diets at 610.296.9091 or at press@specialtydiets.com or visit www.specialtydiets.com.
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