Jonathan J. Bush, Jr. is founder and CEO of Zus Health, a company focused on creating the healthcare industry’s first shared development platform backed by a shared data record and thereby empowering digital-first healthcare builders. Mr. Bush is also the Executive Chairman of Firefly Health, a pioneer in real-time virtual primary care, and he sits on the boards of SonderMind which provides virtual and in-person behavioral healthcare, and of Innovaccer which is building a series of technology platform services for population health. He also chairs the Board of the non-profit Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity which funds policy research on how the market economy can most effectively be managed to ensure equal access to markets by all members of society.
Mr. Bush is the co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth. Founded originally as an effort to reform maternity care through collaborative medical practice, athenahealth pivoted to internet-based information services in 2000 when it could not obtain the information it needed from providers to build its business. Athenahealth now provides internet-based billing, medical record and care management services to over twenty percent of the US healthcare market.
Prior to founding athenahealth, Mr. Bush served as an EMT for the City of New Orleans, was trained as a medic in the U.S. Army, and worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Bush obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Community Insights
The Evolution and Death of the Electronic Medical Record
The EMR we have come to know does a very important thing, but it's absolutely nothing compared to what they could, should, and maybe will do in the very near future.
athenahealth
Fixing Our Healthcare Disconnect
In 2014, I saw countless examples of disconnectedness in healthcare. There was the first known Ebola victim in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan, whose recent travel to West Africa was overlooked in his hospital’s electronic health record system. There was the revelation that tens of thousands of veterans were waiting months or longer for care at the VA. And we’re just getting news that, beginning in 2015, nearly 260,000 doctors will face Medicare reimbursement penalties for their failure to go digital. Healthcare is failing to connect care teams to timely clinical information; failing to connect and engage patients in their own care; and failing to connect healthcare providers to innovation and financial results.
athenahealth
Why VC’s Shortchange Healthcare IT—And How to Change It
Some are celebrating the increasing levels of venture capital flowing to health information technology startups. But I’m in the business of cloud-based electronic health record services, and I’m not celebrating. In fact, I consider current levels of VC funding for my industry to be tragic. In a 2013 first quarter report, Mercom Capital Group reported that “the sector continues to explode in another record quarter with almost half a billion dollars ($493 million) raised.” But VC levels pale in comparison to what the federal government has ponied up: $30 billion under the HITECH Act to encourage adoption of health IT.
CDX Events
CDX Accelerate Health + Wellness
This day-long conference held in partnership with KPMG at their Boston Seaport office and conference facility will focus on how tech and digital tools can help improve health and wellness for consumers in a post-pandemic world. Digital technologies and platforms were already transforming healthcare prior to the pandemic, but over the last two years the […]
