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  Ask LMN: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush
FreeB Posted by Fred Trotter on Thursday February 22, 2007 @ 05:41 PM
from the FreeB dept.

Fred Trotter (me) has just won the bidding for the Histalk sponsored Beers with Bush at HIMSS07. As a result I get to talk to Jonathan Bush the CEO of athenahealth.

As you can imagine, I will be talking to him about FreeB and FOSS medical software generally, but what else should I ask him?

Slashdot style, if you will post a question for Jonathan Bush as a comment on this Linux Medical News story, and I arbitrarily decide that I like the question (since there is no meta-moderation here) I will ask him your question over drinks.

Just a warning I have no interest in talking to him about politics, so no conspiracy questions, please.

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Jonathan Bush is the cousin of President George Bush, his biography from the Athena Health website reports: "In 1997, Jonathan Bush co-founded athenahealth as a women's health practice management company. Today, athenahealth is the largest and fastest growing virtual back office for medical groups in the United States, but the vision is the same: bring process integrity to the delivery of health care.

Before athenahealth, Bush was an EMT for the City of New Orleans, a combat medic in the U.S Army, and a managed care strategy consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Wesleyan University and a master's degree with distinction in business administration from the Harvard Business School. He is currently a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, trustee of the Farm School, and father of five children."



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    Re: Interview: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush
    by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday February 22, 2007 @ 07:18 PM

    Why have you never posted to Linux Medical News?

    What are the big issues in Health IT that your company addresses?

    Are you using any Free and Open Source Software to run Athena Health?

    -- IV


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    Re: Ask LMN: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush
    by Karl on Thursday February 22, 2007 @ 07:47 PM

    Athenahealth's payer-specific coding rule system sounds great. Ask if he would consider packaging it as an add-on claim-edit to existing practice management/ billing programs.


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    Re: Ask LMN: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush
    by Tim Cook on Thursday February 22, 2007 @ 09:33 PM
    First, congrats to Fred and thanks to Jonathan for taking on this task. It should be interesting. :-)

    The question:

    Is athenahealth willing to work in an open collaborative manner with FOSS EMR/EHR projects so that those projects can feed data directly to the athenahealth practice management application?

    twc

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    Re: Ask LMN: Fred Trotter talks to Jonathan Bush
    by osproponent on Friday February 23, 2007 @ 01:53 AM

    If a first class, open source Healthcare (Hospital) Information System became available, would he believe the US Government would utilize it instead of VistA?


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