athenahealth’s More Disruption Please (MDP) Program Launches ‘MDP Labs’ to Accelerate Health Innovation & Entrepreneurs...
May 18 2017 - 8:00AM
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), a leading provider of
network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory clients
nationwide, today announced the launch of MDP Labs, a new
innovation program hosted in the company’s San Francisco office,
and invites all entrepreneurs with novel technologies that can help
fix what is broken in healthcare to apply.
“In 2011, we launched the athenahealth Marketplace wherein we
opened a door for entrepreneurs to deliver new innovations to
thousands of providers via our national cloud platform,” said
Jonathan Bush, chief executive officer at athenahealth. “We are now
supersizing our efforts—committing to fill 200 seats of our San
Francisco office with the next generation of doers and big thinkers
—and ushering in the next stage of the healthcare internet. By
consolidating fresh talent, we can help fast track innovative
solutions to market, making healthcare IT much more relevant,
valuable, and ‘shop-able’ for providers and their patients.”
MDP Labs is open to all healthcare and technology entrepreneurs,
from seed-stage startups to mature companies. Companies will be
evaluated based on their team, business model, stage of
development, demonstrated traction, and strategic fit with
athenahealth’s service portfolio and business model. Unlike many
accelerator and incubator programs, MDP Labs will not take equity
in participating companies.
MDP Labs participants will have access to:
- Workspace and Community – Office space in
athenahealth’s downtown San Francisco (SoMA) location with a
welcoming community of like-minded entrepreneurs.
- Tailored Programming – Internal R&D and
business experts to help design a program catered to your company’s
needs.
- Mentorship – Ongoing, dedicated mentorship and
feedback from athenahealth’s product teams, senior leadership,
super users, and curated network of advisors.
- Partnerships and Funding Opportunities –
Opportunities to fast track an athenahealth partnership or
investment.
- Exposure to Clients – Broad exposure to the
athenahealth provider network and beta programs.
Join athenahealth and Elevar at the San Francisco athenahealth
office on June 13, 2017, for Reverse Pitch Day®, where athenahealth
CEO Jonathan Bush will call on the startup community to solve some
of healthcare’s most pressing pain points.
"Elevar is proud to support athenahealth’s vision to build a
game-changing digital health ecosystem nationwide," said Chris
Edell, chief executive officer of Elevar. "Entrepreneurs interested
in making a positive impact in the lives of patients and physicians
are encouraged to apply."
To learn more about MDP Labs, Reverse Pitch Day or to submit an
application, please visit:
https://www.athenahealth.com/more-disruption-please/labs.
Applications for MDP Labs close July 7.
About ‘More Disruption Please’The athenahealth
More Disruption Please (MDP) partnership and innovation program
brings together entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians and industry
experts who share the company’s vision of disrupting the status quo
in healthcare. Through collaboration and seamless integration on
athenahealth’s open cloud platform, MDP provides easy access to the
world’s most innovative thinking, offering solutions to help
healthcare professionals thrive in the face of industry change and
pressure. For more information, please visit:
https://www.athenahealth.com/more-disruption-please/more-disruption.
About athenahealth, Inc.athenahealth partners
with hospital and ambulatory clients to drive clinical and
financial results. We offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient
engagement, care coordination, and population health services. We
combine insights from our network of 99,000 providers and 88
million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform
administrative work at scale. For more information, please
visit www.athenahealth.com.
About ElevarElevar was founded on the belief
that long-standing healthcare challenges can be solved in new and
unique ways by entrepreneurs, with the guidance of industry
experts. Our mission is to bring visionaries front-and-center to
these challenges to improve the collective healthcare experience.
We want to see the most innovative minds build projects that
matter. Our unique Elevar Labs® builds partnerships between
enterprise and top startups, creating solutions aligned to specific
industry needs. As pioneer of Reverse Pitch Day® (RPD), Elevar
flips the script by having healthcare executives pitch their
problems to the startup community. Rather than spending precious
time, money and resources building a product that there may, or may
not be a market for helping startups to validate business models
and enterprise to identify potential solutions (early on). At
Elevar, we connect today’s leading enterprises to tomorrow’s
innovations.
Press Contacts:
Holly Spring
athenahealth, Inc. (Media)
617-402-1631
media@athenahealth.com
Dana Quattrochi
athenahealth, Inc. (Investors)
617-402-1329
investorrelations@athenahealth.com
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