JHI Receives Recognition for Outstanding Websites in the 2009 Annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards

(New York, NY) Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI) has won three website awards in the highly regarded 2009 eHealthcare Leadership Awards. The eHealthcare Leadership Awards evaluates and acknowledges the best websites in the healthcare industry. This is the second consecutive year JHI has achieved recognition for its outstanding websites. JHI sites were recognized in the following three categories:

Best Overall Internet Site
Physician/Clinician-Focused Site
Silver: Jobson Healthcare Information, www.pharmqd.com

Best Design
Pharmaceutical & Medical Equipment Firm
Distinction: Jobson Healthcare Information, www.questcor.com

Best eBusiness Site
Business/Process Improvement Applications or Products
Distinction: MEDCON, www.entelligencemd.org

All three winning sites were built under the direction of Tina Pang Mayer, JHI's Senior Vice President of e-Products. Mayer is responsible for the e-strategy across multiple business units and works with many of JHI's pharmaceutical and biotech clients with online branding strategies. The recognition of all three sites reinforces JHI's leading position in the healthcare arena as a premier provider of information and communication services. The Silver placement for PharmQD.com in the category of Best Overall Internet Site is especially noteworthy. PharmQD.com is a professional and social networking website for the pharmacy industry and was developed by JHI to serve as an online network for pharmacy professionals to communicate, voice their opinions and share information about the pharmacy workplace. PharmQD.com is the first and only major social networking site dedicated exclusively to the entire pharmacy industry, and is also JHI's first foray into social networking media. Since its launch this past summer, PharmQD.com has experienced robust traffic and its membership is growing at a rapid pace.

"We are thrilled that in such a short time, PharmQD.com has already received a prestigious honor in healthcare websites. By embracing the benefits of social networking and Web 2.0 features, we are poised to uncover the incredible potential that they offer to the healthcare industry," says Mayer. "The eHealthcare Leadership Award achievement is a testament to JHI's full-scale capabilities and expertise in digital media in all areas of healthcare. Our commitment to excellence in design and content is the driving force for us to continue to deliver dynamic ways to engage our audience."

Some 220 healthcare organizations, representing a broad industry spectrum, received recognition for their outstanding Web sites at a special presentation in Las Vegas on November 4 during the Thirteenth Annual Healthcare Internet Conference. Sites receiving the 2009 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were selected from more than 1,100 entries. A total of 116 individuals familiar with healthcare and the Internet judged the entries based on a proprietary multi-point standard of Internet excellence to carefully select the winning sites with the highest standards of web excellence.

About JHI

JHI is a premier integrated healthcare information and communication services provider, with leading positions in a variety of rapidly growing healthcare markets such as pharmacy, clinician (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) and the managed markets (managed care, eldercare, hospitals, government and employer groups), as well as select specialty physician sectors including cardiology, ophthalmology and radiology. Through its diversified, multi-media portfolio of communication services, information databases, trade publications, medical education initiatives, websites and other digital and traditional media services, JHI is uniquely positioned to reach, educate and inform approximately one million healthcare professionals across more than 20 specialties.