athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:
ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic
health record (EHR),
practice management, and care
coordination, today announced the Company is working with Mashery to
provide new web-services-based APIs (application programming interfaces)
for the health care IT developer community. These new offerings
strengthen partner access to athenahealth’s More
Disruption Please (MDP) program, an initiative that brings together
entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, developers, academics, and others
who believe in breeding innovation and stoking disruption as a means to
overcome the staid and broken processes within health care.
Through its work with Mashery, the world’s leading provider of API
management technology and services, athenahealth is unleashing turn-key
connectivity to its cloud-based platform of HIT services and to its
existing network of about 40,000 providers nationwide. This massive,
open API initiative offers innovators an onramp to develop
best-of-breed, HIPAA-compliant health care applications that can be
easily introduced and integrated within health care provider workflows.
“With Mashery, we are yet again putting a stake in the cloud; we’re
lowering the point of entry for the best and brightest across the
technology community to plug into our network, to engage our captive
audience of tens of thousands of providers, and to innovate on their
behalf. Come! Help us disrupt and improve health care,” said Jonathan
Bush, CEO and chairman, athenahealth. “athenahealth is building a
cloud-based, information backbone—similar to what Amazon.com is for
consumers, our platform will serve as a one-stop shop for providers
seeking solutions to help them meet clinical and business goals. Unlike
traditional HIT vendors that operate in closed silos and are unwilling
to connect beyond their existing client base, we are all about openness.”
Kyle Armbrester, director of Business Development and head of More
Disruption Please at athenahealth, added: “We are modernizing health
care IT in a big way with Mashery by streamlining connectivity to our
platform, and allowing the developer community to plug in and innovate.
We’re providing the data and knowledge from our cloud-based network, a
captive audience for developers to innovate for, and an online sandbox
to do it all in. The bottom line is that there’s not enough innovation
in health care; by lowering the point of entry for the development
community, we’re hoping they’ll be enticed to create solutions for a
cause that impacts us all—our health care.”
“We’re eager to pair our working knowledge of the current health care
app transformation with athenahealth’s platform vision,” said Oren
Michels, CEO and co-founder of Mashery. “Mashery has years of experience
helping its health care customers achieve tangible API program
success—such as the 20 app prototypes built at the Health 2.0
Code-a-thon we hosted last October, where developers used data from
fitness monitors, the FDA and insurance providers in apps that encourage
ongoing healthy behaviors.”
More Disruption Please (MDP) is athenahealth’s business development
program; it is aimed at launching a massive surge of disruptive
innovation in health care for the overall advancement in the way patient
care is coordinated, delivered, and reimbursed. The MDP advantage is
that qualified, high-quality health care innovators can gain access to
athenahealth’s growing cloud-based network of about 40,000 providers.
Through the MDP program, athenahealth will continue to introduce new
services and accelerate the introduction of high-value innovation via
the cloud.
Those interested in learning about MDP and partnership opportunities, or
alerts for when our online health care marketplace will be available,
please visit www.athenahealth.com/disruption.
About athenahealth, Inc.
athenahealth is a leading provider of cloud-based services for EHR,
practice management, and care coordination. athenahealth’s mission is to
be caregivers’ most trusted service, helping them do well doing the
right thing. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
or call 888-652-8200.
About Mashery
Mashery, the world’s leading provider of API Management technology and
services, helps securely power 62,000 apps for more than 175 top
brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Dun & Bradstreet, Coca-Cola
Enterprises, Aetna, CapitalOne and Expedia. Only Mashery offers
enterprises a PCI-DSS Compliant API Management platform to build
API-powered platforms for opening new distribution channels, speeding
time-to-market, and spurring innovation. Mashery focuses on API success,
from crafting platform strategy and setting business objectives, to
managing API delivery and facilitating relationships with a network of
200,000 developers. Mashery was founded in 2006.
