Mayo Clinic Health Solutions and MayoClinic.com Web sites awarded seven 2006 eHealthcare Leadership Awards

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic Health Solutions recently won awards in seven classifications of the eHealthcare Leadership Awards, presented by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends, a leading industry publication.

Mayo Clinic's consumer health information site, www.MayoClinic.com, won three gold awards: one each in the "Best overall Internet site," "Best site design" and "Best health content" categories for consumer general health sites.

Mayo Clinic Health Solutions' eHealth Package, a suite of Web-based population health management tools that employers and member groups can customize for their populations, won four awards: two platinum awards for the "Best overall Internet site" category in the corporate business improvement and business/process improvement applications or products classifications, as well as platinum and gold awards in the "Best health content" and "Best site design" categories, respectively, for the business/process improvement applications or products classification.

The eHealthcare Leadership Awards program recognizes the best Web sites and business improvement initiatives of a wide range of organizations. Judges looked at how sites compared with others in their classification and reviewed sites based on a proprietary multi-point standard of Internet excellence.

The 2006 eHealthcare Leadership Awards were chosen from more than 1,000 entries from online health companies, business improvement/vendor sites, large and small health care organizations, and pharmaceutical companies, according to eHealthcare Strategy & Trends.

"Mayo Clinic Health Solutions is pleased to receive these awards," says Brooks Edwards, M.D., medical director for Mayo Clinic Health Solutions, the parent organization for www.MayoClinic.com. "These awards recognize our efforts to provide quality information and tools to help people lead healthier lives."