Athenahealth
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Startup Sues Athenahealth, Alleging Trade Secret Theft & Deceptive Practices
Digital health startup Dorsata filed a lawsuit against EHR provider athenahealth and women’s health company Unified Women’s Healthcare. The startup alleged that athenahealth stole trade secrets, used deceptive business practices and breached its contract — and that Unified aided and abetted these purported practices.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Healthcare hires of note
Here’s a selection of recent executive hires across healthcare and life sciences.
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Athenahealth to change hands again in $17B deal
Affiliates of Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman struck a deal to buy the health IT company from its current private equity owners, Veritas Capital and an affiliate of activist investor Elliott Management. The two took the company private through a takeover bid in 2019.
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Study: Apps integrating with EHRs grew 20% during 2020
Though the total number of unique apps that integrate with major EHRs, like Epic and Cerner, increased from 600 at the end of 2019 to 734 in December 2020, growth in the number of apps that support the FHIR data exchange standard was stagnant.
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Former athenahealth CEO reemerges with new health IT startup
His newest venture, Zus, was created with the idea of making it easier for fledgling healthcare startups to piece together their own technology systems. The company emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding.
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EHR vendor athenahealth to pay $18M+ to settle illegal kickback allegations
The vendor has agreed to pay nearly $18.3 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by offering illegal kickbacks to boost EHR sales. The company denies any wrongdoing and said it agreed to settle to “put the matter behind us.”
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Healthcare’s next act: More connections, stronger relationships
Covid-19 made an already challenging healthcare system even harder to navigate. If we want the industry to come back stronger than before, then we must ask ourselves, “What is healthcare’s next act?”
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Seeing an uptick in demand, athenahealth adds telehealth service
After seeing a surge in telehealth visits through its software, health IT company athenahealth is building a telehealth solution for its users. The company said its system would integrate with provider workflows, making scheduling and documentation easier.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Innovaccer raises $70M, adds former Athenahealth CEO to board
San Francisco-based software startup Innovaccer closed a $70 million funding round. The company, which is focused on building longitudinal patient records, also named former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush to its board of directors.
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Walgreens hires new chief medical officer from athenahealth
Dr. Kevin Ban joined Walgreens as its CMO after holding the same role at athenahealth. He joins as the company is re-configuring its clinical services, adding partnerships with Jenny Craig and LabCorp.
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Athenahealth lays off employees after sale to Veritas Capital and Elliott Management
A source familiar with the situation told MedCity that less than 4 percent of the company’s total corporate workforce across all offices was let go.
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Former athenahealth CEO slams Elliott Management in CNBC interview
“My experience is running a company with a gun to your head is no way to run a company. Better to just say, ‘Pull the trigger,'” Bush said when asked about having an activist investor like Elliott take a stake in his company.
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After lengthy process, athenahealth sold to Veritas Capital, Elliott Management for $5.7B
Following the close of the transaction, athenahealth will be combined with Virence Health, the former GE Healthcare unit Veritas bought earlier this year.
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Health IT, Patient Engagement, Payers
UnitedHealth Group launching portable EHR for members by the end of 2019
UnitedHealth Group CEO Dave Wichmann laid out the company’s plan to launch “fully integrated and fully portable individual health record” on an earnings call last week.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
