Athenahealth

athenahealth, Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: ATHN
Industry	Healthcare Technology
Founded	1997
Founders	Jonathan Bush Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors Todd Park Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States,
Headquarters	Watertown, Massachusetts
Products	electronic health records, revenue cycle management, medical billing, patient engagement, care coordination, population health management, and Epocrates
Revenue	US$100.8 million (2007), $924.7 million (December, 2015)
Number of employees	4,668
Website	athenahealth.com

athenahealth, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that provides cloud-based services for health care and point-of-care mobile apps. The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego, California. athenahealth is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, with operational sites in Belfast, Maine; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Princeton, New Jersey; and Chennai, India.

In 1997, athenahealth cofounders Jonathan Bush and Todd Park started Athena Women's Health, a women's health and birthing practice in San Diego, California. The practice encountered problems being reimbursed by payers. Lacking a system to track insurance claims, Bush and Park formed athenahealth, Inc. to develop a practice management system. Todd's brother, software developer Ed Park, helped to develop a revenue cycle management system with a "rules engine" of dynamic billing rules data. In 2000, athenahealth introduced athenaCollector, its cloud-based revenue cycle and practice management service.

In 2006, the company launched athenaClinicals, reported as the "first economically sustainable, service-based" electronic medical records (EMR) system. athenahealth, Inc. announced an initial public offering of its common stock on June 22, 2007. The offering was completed on September 20, 2007, at a price of $18 per share. It trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ATHN.