Castlight Health to Demonstrate the Impact of Data on the Transformation of Consumer Health Care

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) June 04, 2012

Castlight Health co-founder and CEO Giovanni Colella, M.D. will present a session on how data can transform consumer health care at the upcoming Health Data Initiative (HDI) Forum III: The Health Datapalooza conference. The conference is taking place June 5 - 6, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Castlight Health is the leading provider of health care transparency solutions for employers and payers.

During the Apps Demos and Action Beats for Consumers session, Dr. Colella will conduct a live demonstration of Castlight Health's health care management suite, which enables customers to reduce their overall health care spending while improving the quality of care for the employees they cover and support.

What: Apps Demos and Action Beats For Consumers session at HDI Forum III: The Health Datapalooza
When: 11:00 a.m. ET, Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Where: Main Stage, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
Who: Giovanni Colella, M.D., Co-Founder and CEO, Castlight Health
Social: Follow the conversation on Twitter with @CastlightHealth and #HealthData

"Access to data is a core principle in our mission and essential to achieving full health care transparency," said Dr. Colella. "We built our health care management suite to help companies and their employees save money and improve the quality of care. With Castlight, individuals can better understand the cost and quality of the care, so they can make more-informed choices."

HDI Forum III: The Health Datapalooza will feature keynote addresses, a Data & Apps Expo, demonstrations of cutting-edge applications, hands-on data deep dives, and thought-provoking panel discussions. For more information, visit:
www.hdiforum.org/

About Castlight Health

Castlight Health enables employers, their employees, and health plans to take control of health care costs and improve care. Named #1 on The Wall Street Journal's list of "The Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies" for 2011 and one of Dow Jones' 50 Most Investment-Worthy Technology Start-Ups, Castlight Health helps the country's self-insured employers and health plans empower consumers to shop for health care. Castlight Health is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by prominent investors including Allen & Company, Cleveland Clinic, Maverick Capital, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Oak Investment Partners, Redmile Group, T. Rowe Price, U.S. Venture Partners, Venrock, Wellcome Trust and two unnamed mutual funds. For more information, please visit our web site at www.castlighthealth.com or call (415) 829-1400.

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