Vimo.com Recognized for Excellence in Promoting Patient Care

LAS VEGAS, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain View, Calif.-based Vimo Inc. announced today that its "comparison shopping for surgery" service had been named Best Use of Technology to Promote Patient Care by the National Wellness, Prevention & Fitness Conference (NWPFC).

Selected by an independent panel of industry leaders, Vimo's technology was recognized for enabling health consumers to comparison shop for medical procedures with the ease and convenience of comparison shopping for other products online. Vimo's service was the subject of a recent NBC television news story. That video is available at http://www.nbc11.com/news/10838229/detail.html .

"It's an honor to be recognized for empowering consumers to get the best care at the lowest price," said Vimo founder and CEO Chini Krishnan. "For the health marketplace to function well, consumers need free and easy access to information about price and quality. Vimo is delivering that information in ways never possible before, and doing it free of charge for the consumer."

The honor was received during the Consumer Directed Health Care Conference (CDHCC) Awards on May 1 in Las Vegas, Nev. At the same ceremony, Vimo also received a second place award from the CDHCC for Best Initiative for Cost Transparency. In April, Vimo was announced as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Awards honoring companies that play a leading role in innovation and technology.

About Vimo

Founded by industry veterans from WebMD and Valicert, Vimo believes consumers deserve more power in the healthcare equation. Vimo makes buying healthcare and insurance easier, cheaper and much more transparent. Vimo is the only Internet destination where users can gain objective, authoritative, and comprehensive shopping-comparison data about insurance, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), medical procedures, doctors and dentists. Insurance brokers interested in partnering with Vimo can visit http://www.vimo.com/brokercenter. For other partnership opportunities, e-mail partners@vimo.com, call Vimo at 650-230-0065 or visit http://www.vimo.com/.

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