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 . 1 history edit 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 . 2 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 . 3 in 2006 the company launched athenaclinicals reported as the first economically sustainable service based electronic medical records emr system . 4 athenahealth inc. announced an initial public offering of its common stock on june 22 2007 . 5 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 . 6 in 2008 athenahealth introduced athenacommunicator to manage phone calls . 7 since then the product has evolved into a suite of patient engagement services including a patient portal population health campaign tool scheduling solution and answering service . athenahealth purchased anodyne health in 2009 . 8 the anodyne health services were incorporated into athenacoordinator analytics an analytics service for medical groups and health systems . athenahealth s more disruption please program was launched in 2011 . the initiative is both a partner program and an incubator environment for independent companies to develop products and services connected to athenahealth s ecosystem . 9 in 2011 athenahealth purchased proxsys llc a care coordination company and launched athenacoordinator now athenacoordinator core for order transmission and care collaboration with secure text message . 10 in 2012 the company purchased healthcare data services a population health management company . 11 the company launched athenacoordinator enterprise now athena population health in 2014 to design end to end care coordination and population health service for enterprises . in 2013 the company purchased the epocrates mobile brand . 12 epocrates is now an athenahealth service for clinical decision support in the moments of care . on january 14 2015 athenahealth announced the acquisition of razorinsights a leader in cloud based ehr and financial solutions for rural critical access and community hospitals . the purchase extended athenahealth s established position in the outpatient market into the 50 bed and under inpatient care environment which makes up nearly one third of the hospital market . 13 in february 2015 athenahealth announced that it had purchased webomr the web based clinical applications and ehr platform developed by boston s beth israel deaconess medical center . athenahealth collaborated with bidmc on the development of athenahealth s acute care service offering using beth israel deaconess hospital needham a 58 bed community hospital as the alpha development site . 14 athenahealth was named 2015 2016 best in klas for mid sized ambulatory emr software . 15 references edit athenahealth inc. factsheet . athenahealth inc. archived from the original on 6 october 2008 . retrieved 2008 10 07 . fights over health claims spawn a new arms race insurers and doctors try for upper hand ; 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