WATERTOWN, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN – News), a leading provider of cloud-based
practice management, electronic
health record (EHR),
and care coordination services to medical groups, has been named to the
2012 TR50,
Review’s third annual list of the world’s most innovative
technology companies.
members are nominated by Technology Review’s editors, who look
for companies that over the last year have demonstrated original and
valuable technology, are bringing that technology to market at a
significant scale, and are clearly influencing their competitors.
Spanning energy, computing, the Web, biomedicine, and materials, the
companies on the list represent commercial innovations most likely to
change lives around the world.
athenahealth was singled out by the editors of Technology
Review for its systems “which help doctors and patients with the
morass of medical records and billing paperwork.” The company was also
recognized for its key innovation of “developing cloud-based software
for electronic
health records and practice management.”
“athenahealth is doing important work to help doctors and patients
navigate the new era of electronic medical records. Among its
innovations is the way its system runs online, in the cloud, which lets
it continuously update and improve its service,” said Jason Pontin,
Editor in Chief and Publisher of Technology Review.
“Being named to the TR50 is like hanging out with the cool crowd in high
school,” said Jonathan Bush, athenahealth Chairman and CEO. “Any which
way you come at this list, athenahealth is shoulder to shoulder with
innovative businesses that have challenged legacy products and disrupted
the status quo through use of technology. At athenahealth we have used
the power of the cloud to create a national backbone for the exchange of
health information that, hard as it is to imagine, never existed. Being
recognized as influencing the technology innovation curve in what’s
historically been a very flat-footed industry is the proverbial icing on
the cake.”
athenahealth and the other companies included in the 2012 TR50 will be
featured in the March/April edition of Technology Review, online
and are currently posted on the Web at www.technologyreview.com/tr50.
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based business
services for physician practices. athenahealth’s service offerings are
based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic
health record (EHR)
software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base, integrated
back-office service operations, and care coordination services. For more
information, please visit http://www.athenahealth.com/
or call (888) 652-8200.
About Technology Review, Inc.
Technology Review is an independent media company owned by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More than three million people
around the globe read our publications, in five languages and on a
variety of digital and print platforms. We publish Technology Review
magazine, the world’s oldest technology magazine (established 1899);
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entirely new industries; and live events including the annual Emtech MIT
conference. Technology Review also owns the MIT Enterprise Forum, a
community and events organization that fosters technology
entrepreneurship with 28 chapters worldwide.
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