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| − | '''Athenahealth, Inc.''' (ATHN) is a publicly traded American company that provides multiple solutions for physicians and hospital systems. Services include the following: medical billing, practice management, and an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) service. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego, California, and today is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with operational sites in Belfast, Maine; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Princeton, New Jersey; and Chennai, India.
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| − | ==History==
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| − | Athenahealth was started in 1997 by Jonathan Bush, nephew of George. W. Bush, Athenahealth cofounders Jonathan Bush and Todd Park. In the early stages, Athenahealth began as women's health and birthing practice in San Diego, California, called Athena Healthcare. The startup ran into resistance from obtaining reimbursement by insurance companies. Due to their difficulties, they looked for solutions of practice management to streamline their practice, cut overhead and interact with third party insurance companies. After unsuccessfully finding a solution, they created Athenahealth as a solution to these issues other medical practices had. Ed Park,Todd's brother was hired as a software developer and they developed an EMR with a rules engine for billing purposes.
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| − | ==Growth==
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| − | 2000 As a natural evolution of their EMR Athenahealth,they introduced '''AthenaCollector''' which was physician billing and practice management service.
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| − | 2006 '''AthenaClinicals''' was launched and was touted as the "first economically sustainable, service-based" electronic medical records (EMR) system.
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| − | 2008 They announced the acquisition of '''MedicalMessaging.net''' and integrated it into their physician solution systems.
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| − | 2013 Anthenahealth acquires '''Epocrates''', a leader in mobile pharmacy applications. The Epocrates app, which as of August was used by 338,000 U.S. physicians to
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| − | call up summaries on drugs, including side effects and interactions. Athenahealth estimates about 90 percent of doctors had heard of Epocrates, three times
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| − | the recognition of Athenahealth itself.
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