The serial entrepreneur and CEO of Transcarent has dismissed care navigation companies in the past. What led him to buy Accolade, the biggest — though struggling — name in navigation?
Jonathan Bush has three rules he thinks digital health startups should follow as the country prepares for a likely recession. They should ensure their technology accomplishes a task that healthcare stakeholders need fulfilled, be very clear about how they can make more money doing their job than their competitors, and find "people who are unhinged enough" to try their product.
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In this episode of the MedCity Pivot Podcast, Jonathan Bush talks about his latest venture - Zus Health - through which he wants to help digital health companies share data to create a universal patient off of which new products can be created to serve payers, providers and others with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
"My experience is running a company with a gun to your head is no way to run a company. Better to just say, 'Pull the trigger,'" Bush said when asked about having an activist investor like Elliott take a stake in his company.
Meanwhile, the Watertown, Massachusetts EHR vendor has extended the deadline for a final buyout bid to September 27.
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Reporters have been aware of athenahealth CEO's flamboyant self, crazy parties, and company conferences and in a way bear some responsibility for ignoring any alleged inappropriate behavior.
Bush's departure comes after he admitted to physically attacking his ex-wife and as allegations of his inappropriate behavior at athenahealth were brought into the spotlight.
In a letter to athenahealth's board of directors, Elliott Management Partner Jesse Cohn makes his firm's case for why the company would be better off as a private business.
Though Q4 and full-year revenue for the Watertown, Massachusetts-based company were up, bookings dropped. CEO Jonathan Bush contributed this to the healthcare industry currently being in a "sugar low."
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
In the past, term sheets for athenahealth's More Disruption Please accelerator have invited some scrutiny. This time we ask the cloud-based EHR company's CEO for comment.
Healthcare just won't stop colliding with pop culture, will it? In the wake of news about a Martin Shkreli musical, we also learn that athenahealth boss Jonathan Bush has responded to John Oliver.
Ever feel overmatched? That's how our reporter felt at HIMSS16 in Las Vegas last week when he did a video — streamed live online by HealthIT.TV — with athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and Dr. Zubin "ZDoggMD" Damania.
Jonathan Bush got some love at HIStalk's HISsie awards last night.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner declined to give a cause of death pending the outcome of additional tests.