Over a 1,000 exhibitors, some 30,000+ attendees and I come away from HIMSS, again, thinking is this all there is? Where is the innovation that the Obama administration i.e., Sec. Sebellius and Dr. Blumenthal both touted in their less than inspiring keynotes on Wednesday morn? Maybe I had my blinders on, maybe I was looking [...]
Posts Tagged ‘athenahealth’
HIMSS’11: Setting Expectations
Posted in ACO, Analytics, EHR, eRx, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged athenahealth, Carefx, HIMSS'11 on February 25, 2011 | 25 Comments »
Healthcare Reform, Payment Models & Acquisitions
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, tagged AllScripts, athenahealth, Centricity Advance, eClinicalWorks, Eclipsys, Epic, Greenway, NextGen, Practicefusion, Sage on June 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today, GE announced the release of Centricity Advance, their solution for the ambulatory market. Centricity Advance is basically a build-out/rebranding of MedPlexus an SaaS EHR solution vendor that GE acquired in March 2010. GE now joins others (see below) in the EHR market who are striving to provide a complete acute to ambulatory EHR portfolio. [...]
Health 2.0 – Day 2
Posted in consumer health, PHR, telehealth, tagged 23andMe, Adam Bosworth, athenahealth, genetic testing, Health 2.0, isis-inc., keas, mHealth, Navigenics, sermo on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
8:15am Interview with healthcare SaaS darling athenahealth. CEO Jonathan Bush is being interviewed by Chris Lawton of the Wall St. Journal. Jonathan speaks so fast (he definitely has ADHD) it’s nearly impossible for me to keep up. One comment from Jonathan: Many of the Health 2.0 companies say they are different than Google but put [...]
Oracle + Cerner = Opportunity?
Posted in EHR, EMR, tagged athenahealth, Cerner, Oracle, SAP on June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In case you didn’t see it, Bloomberg had an article last week that assessed the possibility of the ever acquisitive Oracle (some 40 acquisitions in last 4+ years) making a move on healthcare by acquiring Cerner. While I normally focus on consumer-facing apps, can’t help but comment on this story as I know Oracle quite [...]
Harvard Conference on Internet’s Future
Posted in Google, Microsoft, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged athenahealth, cloud computing, healthcare IT, Internet, SaaS on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I got religion. At least religion that part of the savior to today’s, and more importantly, tomorrow’s healthcare crisis lies on the Internet. With the abysmal adoption of IT to date within the healthcare sector, I am a strong believer that this industry will simply leap-frog the traditional, three-tiered IT architectural model and move directly [...]
athenahealth Makes a Splash
Posted in EHR, EMR, P4P, SaaS, tagged athenahealth, EHR, EMR, IPO, P4P, SaaS on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sept 20th, athenahealth (ATHN) went public on the NASDAQ becoming the most successful IPO to date in 2007. Coming out at $18/share, the share price soared to over $38/share, a 115% gain. Since then, the price has settled down (probably some profit taking by early purchasers) and is now trading at ~$33/share. Still a [...]
