Health and Technology Leader Neil Agate to Share Expertise at Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston

VIENNA, Va., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinergy Health, a pioneer in using the web to connect family members, doctors, and other healthcare providers to better and more efficiently deliver care for an aging or chronically ill loved one, is pleased to announce that it will be featured today at the Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston Conference Launch! session.  Launch! is the industry's preeminent platform for debuting new technologies and innovative companies.  Neil Agate, Chief Operating Officer, will be introducing the company.

The Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston conference is the industry's most impactful partnership and deal-making forum, where leading health care payers, pharma, hospitals, foundations, and investors set up one-on-one private meetings with technology innovators. Established companies(1) scout new talent and preview the latest innovations improving patient care and health care delivery before they are introduced to the rest of the world. Health care incubators and veteran health tech entrepreneurs will be on hand to lend advice and share their own stories to current and future industry leaders.

Agate is a serial healthcare technology entrepreneur and expert in the collection and analysis of medical information to improve patient management.  He will demonstrate how the MyKinergy online service provides individual patient-centered communities with private, HIPAA conformant communications that save time for healthcare professionals and family caregivers, improve overall quality of care, and give family members peace of mind.

According to Matthew Holt, Health 2.0's Co-Chairman, "The unique setting at Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston will allow entrepreneurs to meet major tech and health care organizations and investors to form mutually beneficial partnerships. We believe Neil Agate's presentation will provide excellent guidance to those looking to make a big impact in health care."

The Health 2.0 community consists of hundreds of organizations and thousands of developers and entrepreneurs. You can follow #health2con on Twitter for the latest conference news or visit http://www.health2con.com/events/?regevent_action=register&event_id=2 to register.

About Kinergy Health: For elderly and chronically ill individuals Kinergy Health brings their family members, doctors, and professional caregivers together in a private, secure online community where they share and respond to up-to-date information, coordinate plans, and collaborate to assure that the patient is always receiving timely and appropriate care.  Today, over 66 million Americans manage the care of someone else.  Kinergy Health simplifies the role of family caregiver and improves efficiency and effectiveness for healthcare providers.  MyKinergy is a SaaS-based service allowing healthcare providers to rapidly deploy patient-centered care models. For more information please visit www.kinergyhealth.com or call us at 703 757-9719.

About Health 2.0: The conference. The media network. The innovation community. The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge innovation transforming the health care system. Since its beginning in 2007, Health 2.0 has served as a community resource for search and online tools to help consumers manage their health and connect to providers. Now that the industry has caught up, Health 2.0 covers the entire cloud, web, mobile and unplatforms technology revolution that is shaking up every sector of health care.

(1) Matchpoint Hosts include: athenahealth, Aetna, AT&T, California HealthCare Foundation, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Healthline, Kaiser Permanente, Ziegler, and Virgin Healthmiles. An updated list of sponsors can be found here: http://www.health2con.com/events/matchpoint/boston-2012/.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Stuart Itkin
Kinergy Health
571-295-8059
[email protected]

Jodi Amendola
Amendola Communications for Health 2.0
480-664-8412 ext. 11
[email protected]

SOURCE Kinergy Health