Health 2.0 Announces Speakers, New Sessions at Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health 2.0 revealed today new speakers and sessions focused on connecting entrepreneurs to innovation incubators and investors at its Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston being held May 14-15 at the Marriott Boston Copley Place. The agenda includes fireside chats with successful startups, venture capital firms, and industry leaders, providing lessons learned on building and maintaining successful partnerships.

Health 2.0 Spring Fling Matchpoint Boston is not just a conference. It's also a Health 2.0 Matchpoint event, which offers innovators a unique opportunity to network and build partnerships with potential customers (including leading provider, payer, pharmaceutical organizations) and investors.

According to Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0 Co-Chair and CEO, "In addition to offering networking opportunities and partnership meetings, innovators can learn from those who have struck successful deals and find out how investors spot viable startups. Investors will have the chance to watch the live launch of some of the most innovative health care technologies and meet those entrepreneurs at our Health 2.0 Bazaar and Matchpoint events."

Jonathan Bush, CEO and chairman of athenahealth, Inc., will keynote the conference. Bush will chronicle his company's successful journey from a small start-up to one of the leading healthcare IT companies. In addition to Bush, other speakers include:

• Mitch Rothschild, CEO, Vitals.com
• Ann Mond Johnson, Chairman, Connected Health (formerly Subimo)
• Don Casey, CEO, West Wireless Health Institute
• Michael Laskoff, CEO, AbilTo LLC
• Michael Golinkoff, Head of Clinical Specialty Operations, Aetna Inc.
• John de Souza, CEO, MedHelp
• Nina Nashif, Managing Director, Sandbox Industries
• Brad Weinberg, Founding Partner, Blueprint Health
• Margaret Laws, Director, CHCF Innovations Fund, California Healthcare Foundation
• Brad Fluegel, Health Evolution Partners (formerly Wellpoint)

Applications for Health 2.0's Matchpoint Boston event will be open until April 17. Matchpoint offers the opportunity for start-ups to cut the line on endless corporate networking by providing meetings with executives and key decision makers committed to the Health 2.0 movement, and ultimately starting conversations regarding agreements to pilot, test and fund next-generation solutions designed to transform the quality and efficiency of the health system. The structured, one-on-one, 15-minute meetings will take place during the conference. 

About Health 2.0

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 and is the premiere platform connecting IT innovators to established health care providers. Health 2.0 covers the broadest spectrum of the technology revolution that is shaking up every sector of health care. Learn more at http://www.health2con.com.

SOURCE Health 2.0