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Having just started work at an EHR company, it is absolutely mind bogging how much more complicated the regulations make the business. Shameless plug: said com

Having just started work at an EHR company, it is absolutely mind bogging how much more complicated the regulations make the business. Shameless plug: said company is athenahealth and we're hiring in Austin (and also other places, but this office is the best), and we've also got a budding API program looking for startups to interact with. Email me at my HN username at athenahealth.com - http://www.athenahealth.com/cmp/more-disruption/more-disruption.php http://www.athenahealth.com/cmp/more-disruption/more-disrupt... - http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2014/06/19/a-handful-of-doctors-are-top-users-of-electronic-health-records-and-most-are-athenahealth-clients/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2014/06/19/a-hand...

wavefunction 12y ago
Excellent company! My buddy is there right now and y'all have some incredibly smart and talented folks. Congrats!
ajtaylor 12y ago
I applied for a job with athenahealth in Boston many years ago, but sadly didn't make the cut then. It sounded like a fantastic place to work, where you could make a difference in people's health as well as make good money.
frogstomp19 12y ago
Nice! I'm an athenahealth developer in the atlanta office (well... alpharetta, but soon to be atlanta). While I love it here, I can confirm that the Austin office is the best. We sometimes watch your scotch friday meetings, and Jack comes to our neck of the woods for a "scotch tuesday/wednesday" every so often. In more relevant news, the CEO (Jonathan Bush) just wrote a book ("wrote", he joked) that's a semi-right-wing take on the problem posed in this article (lack of EHR interoperability). Solid read though regardless of politics. Also, the MDP program (the API you're referring to) is more designed to allow third party developers to build functionality onto athenanet that we don't have the specialization or capacity to build. It's not really a means of sharing health data (to my knowledge). However! We have been making the sharing of EHR data a priority, or at least seeming to, with the formation of the CommonWell Health Alliance (members including most major EHR creators... except Epic, because they're Epic). Additionally, we're working on some stuff with athenaCommunicator to help hospitals talk to labs, and stuff with Coordinator that I think involves the Austin crew too... but I don't know what of Coordinator we're allowed to talk about yet so I'll probably shut up on that matter.

wavefunction 12y ago

Excellent company! My buddy is there right now and y'all have some incredibly smart and talented folks. Congrats!

ajtaylor 12y ago

I applied for a job with athenahealth in Boston many years ago, but sadly didn't make the cut then. It sounded like a fantastic place to work, where you could make a difference in people's health as well as make good money.

frogstomp19 12y ago

Nice! I'm an athenahealth developer in the atlanta office (well... alpharetta, but soon to be atlanta). While I love it here, I can confirm that the Austin office is the best. We sometimes watch your scotch friday meetings, and Jack comes to our neck of the woods for a "scotch tuesday/wednesday" every so often. In more relevant news, the CEO (Jonathan Bush) just wrote a book ("wrote", he joked) that's a semi-right-wing take on the problem posed in this article (lack of EHR interoperability). Solid read though regardless of politics. Also, the MDP program (the API you're referring to) is more designed to allow third party developers to build functionality onto athenanet that we don't have the specialization or capacity to build. It's not really a means of sharing health data (to my knowledge). However! We have been making the sharing of EHR data a priority, or at least seeming to, with the formation of the CommonWell Health Alliance (members including most major EHR creators... except Epic, because they're Epic). Additionally, we're working on some stuff with athenaCommunicator to help hospitals talk to labs, and stuff with Coordinator that I think involves the Austin crew too... but I don't know what of Coordinator we're allowed to talk about yet so I'll probably shut up on that matter.