HIMSS 2011 video: CEO Jonathan Bush on AthenaHealth's cloud EHR
Date: Mar 16, 2011ORLANDO, Fla. -- SearchHealthIT.com doesn't make a habit of conducting video interviews with software vendors at trade shows, but we couldn't resist catching up with the colorful founder and CEO of AthenaHealth Inc., Jonathan Bush. His company charges for its cloud electronic health record (EHR), billing and practice-management tools, not by a flat fee, monthly subscription rate or yearly maintenance plan, but instead by the reimbursements the physician gets paid.
Features Writer Don Fluckinger sat down with Bush to ask him, "How can this business model possibly succeed?" and other provocative questions about the nationwide EHR rollout and where AthenaHealth fits in with its cloud EHR services. Bush's unvarnished perspectives -- especially about the economics of EHRs and health care -- will annoy some viewers and resonate with others. No one who's watched the interview, however, has come away bored.
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