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ConnectivHealth Acquires Relegent

Acquisition Includes HealthTeacher and Discovery Hospital Products

Nashville, TN - (June 26, 2007) – ConnectivHealth today announced it has acquired Relegent, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of health care information to the hospital and education industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"We are excited to have Tod Fetherling and the Relegent family join ConnectivHealth," said Scott McQuigg, president and CEO. "HealthTeacher and Discovery Hospital are well-respected brands in health information and significantly strengthen our capabilities to deliver a wider continuum of health information to physicians, schools, and hospitals. Tod's decade of experience in online health information and his health care marketing acumen adds tremendous value to the ConnectivHealth leadership team," he added.

"Health and education are the two fastest growing segments of the GDP, totaling approximately 22 percent of total expenditures," said J. Tod Fetherling, President of Relegent. "By joining ConnectivHealth, we strengthen our focus on health education for schools and hospitals, which must become a key priority for our society over the next several decades. We have found direct correlations between health education and improved health outcomes."

As Chief Product Officer of ConnectivHealth, Fetherling will work with the combined company's customers and business partners, as well as industry leaders to continue to ensure that ConnectivHealth products empower consumers and health care providers to improve health and well-being.

HealthTeacher delivers K-12 health curriculum online, including lesson plans and related materials to more than 7,000 schools in more than 60 countries. HealthTeacher was built on the National Health Education Standards and is backed by more than nine years of high-quality work and commitment to teachers and students. Discovery Hospital is a long-standing partnership with Discovery Communications Inc., which delivers health content to consumers via more than 150 hospital websites. The Discovery Health Channel is also a Discovery Communications brand. Additionally, the acquisition includes Relegent's interest in Planning 2.0, which provides market planning software and consulting to the health care industry.

About ConnectivHealth

ConnectivHealth is building a network of health care information and new media businesses that enable the delivery, distribution, and organization of important health information for physicians, health care professionals, hospitals, and consumers. ConnectivHealth's initial holding, VerusMed, founded in 1994, delivers editorially independent clinical news briefs to more than 150,000 physicians. When complete, the ConnectivHealth network will include a health care information platform, connecting a full spectrum of dynamic health care content. The company's investors include Petra Capital Partners of Nashville, Chrysalis Ventures of Louisville, Ky., and Scott McQuigg. For more information, e-mail us at info@connectivhealth.com.

About Relegent

Founded by J. Tod Fetherling, Relegent is a leading health care information and marketing firm based in Nashville. Relegent owns and operates HealthTeacher, the leading K-12 online health curriculum. The company also exclusively markets Discovery Hospital content to hospitals and provides additional health care marketing services to hospitals, health plans, and employers. Prior to Relegent, Fetherling held several senior-level consulting and interactive marketing roles within the health care industry, including Vice President of Business Development at First Consulting Group (FCG), a health care technology consulting practice. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy.com, the first searchable Internet directory, which was part of America's Health Network (AHN.com) and set a record for attracting the most visitors ever to a single live broadcast event on the Internet by broadcasting the birth of a child – a significant first. Fetherling was also Senior Vice President of America's Health Network, overseeing the Interactive operations of one of the largest Cable/Internet Health companies. Fox/News Corp. later became co-owner of Galaxy and AHN. Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Interactive Marketing at HCA Inc., where he implemented one of the Internet's first major health portals.

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