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When Ankota's CTO, Ken Accardi, asked for a day off last Friday I figured he was taking a long weekend vacation.  But no...  Ken travelled to New York city to mentor CEOs from European Medical Technology companies...

Ken worked at GE Healthcare with Mathieu Petitjean.  At the time, Ken was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for GE's global service business and Mathieu was the Chief of Operations for Europe, the middle-east and Africa.  Today Mathieu runs the company MedNest which is an incubator for medical technologies, focused specifically on Convergence technologies that combine medical devices, pharmaceuticals and information technology.  One of MedNests programs assists medical technology companies from other nations to create partnerships and formulate market entry strategies for bringing their technology to the US.  The programs last week were organized in the New York metropolitan area and in Minnesota.  Ken previously worked with MedNest to organize a similar program for eHealth entrepreneurs in Boston (and with great help from Joe Ternullo from Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health).

Ken worked on Friday with CEOs from the Austrian Company Spantec, a maker of telehealth technology that is preconfigured so that installation in the home is just a matter of plugging it in.  Ken also worked with the French company Normind.  Normind has created a decision engine that can assist doctors in making the best possible medical decisions based on available case data.

"It's always great to work with intelligent entrepreneurs from around the world." explained Ken. "What a day is was, with meetings in the Austrian Embassy, the offices of Hodgson Russ overlooking time square, and the Maison de la Region Montpellier."

A press release issued today from the team in France is attached (click on the image below).

Boston, MA: Ankota has been invited to give a corporate presentation to leading medical technology investors in Boston.  A full description of the event, to be held at UMASS Boston, on October 2^nd is available at http://massmedic.com/investors2009/. The link includes information on how you may register for and participate in the event.

MassMEDIC and MedTech IGNITE describe the event as follows:

New England is a hotbed of cutting-edge research in the medtech industry. MassMEDIC is proud to offer an opportunity for regional promising early stage companies to showcase their technologies before an audience of potential investors and strategic partners. The Investors Conference has been a seminal event for medtech start-ups, more than 250 companies have participated in the Conference since 1999 - many making their debut before investors.

While the primary focus of the Investors Conference is on finance and investment, the annual program has also become an outstanding networking event, drawing more than 450 attendees representing every facet of medtech's finance, manufacturing, development and service supply sectors.

MassMEDIC's eleventh annual MedTech Investors Conference will be held on Friday, October 2nd at the U Mass Boston Campus Center. The day long conference will feature 10 minute presentations by 25 start-up and emerging medical device companies.

To learn more about investor relations at Ankota, please contact CFO Marc Ottinger on 800.909.9866 or via the Ankota website at http://www.ankota.com/.

About MassMEDIC

MassMEDIC seeks to create a positive environment and united voice for the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry, and to implement collaborative initiatives which make Massachusetts the medical device research, development and manufacturing capital of the world.  For more info, go to http://massmedic.com/ or write to info@massmedic.com.

About MedTech IGNITE

MedTech IGNITE is the premier program in Massachusetts for nurturing medical device entrepreneurs at the early stages of their company's conceptualization, formation and development. As the only program to focus solely on medtech startups, we aim to increase the number and sustainability of early stage medical device companies in New England by providing targeted, industry-specific, one-on-one coaching to medtech entrepreneurs.  For more info, go to http://www.medtechignite.com/.

About Ankota

Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM). Ankota provides Home Care Software Solutions delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that improves efficiency and compliance within Home Healthcare Operations. All Ankota solutions are designed with inputs from the home care community with the goal to provide better patient care in a provider-friendly manner. For more information, please visit http://www.ankota.com/.