Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush Joins The Innovaccer Board

By Amit Chowdhry • Feb 13, 2020
  • Leading healthcare technology company Innovaccer announced that former athenahealth CEO and co-founder Jonathan Bush will join the company Board of Directors.

Leading healthcare technology company Innovaccer announced that former athenahealth CEO and co-founder Jonathan Bush will join the company Board of Directors. In this role, Bush is going to be actively working with Innovaccer’s leadership in advancing technology adoption and perfecting cloud integration of healthcare data. And his out-of-the-box thinking will accelerate Innovaccer’s vision of helping healthcare work as one using a connected cloud-based Data Activation Platform to streamline care delivery with unified patient records across the care continuum. 

“Our vision is to help healthcare work as one and ensure a more seamless experience for everyone in the continuum of care. Jonathan’s vast experience in cloud technology and electronic health records will help us transform care delivery with greater efficiencies,” said Abhinav Shashank, Co-founder and CEO at Innovaccer.

Bush has over two decades of technology and leadership experience to Innovaccer. And he co-founded athenahealth in 1997 where he successfully started and scaled the company from the ground-up to a multi-billion dollar healthcare giant.

Bush’s diverse experience in cloud-based services, revenue cycle management, population health management, and care coordination will strengthen Innovaccer’s mission to help healthcare work as one, unify currently siloed patient data and facilitate its availability for physicians, care managers, and other stakeholders at the point of care. 

Bush is a contributor for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Politico. And he is also the author of “Where Does it Hurt? An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Care.”

“I’m excited to be a part of the Innovaccer team,” explained Bush. “While I was proud of athenahealth’s cloud-based technology, I’m thrilled to now be working with technology (and architecture) that is brand new. It’s amazing the difference two decades make in technology.”

Innovaccer utilizes artificial intelligence and analytics to automate routine workflows and reduce manual overhead to facilitate more patient-centered care. And Its KLAS-recognized products have been deployed all over the U.S. across more than 1,000 locations, enabling more than 25,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively.

Plus Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform has been successfully implemented in healthcare institutions, government organizations, and corporate enterprises, including Catholic Health Initiatives, MercyOne, Orlando Health, Hartford Healthcare, and Stratifi Health. With its connected care framework, Innovaccer has unified 3.8 million patient records and generated more than $400 million in savings.