[April 23, 2013] athenahealth partners with Mashery to provide new web-services-based APIs Tweet Apr 23, 2013 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- athenahealth, Inc., a provider of cloud-based services for electronic health record, practice management, and care coordination, has announced that the company is working Mashery, a provider of API management technology and services, to provide new web-services-based APIs for the health care IT developer community. These new offerings strengthen partner access to athenahealth's More Disruption Please (MDP) program, an initiative that brings together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, developers, academics, and others who believe in breeding innovation and stoking disruption as a means to overcome the staid and broken processes within health care, athenahealth said. "With Mashery, we are yet again putting a stake in the cloud; we're lowering the point of entry for the best and brightest across the technology community to plug into our network, to engage our captive audience of tens of thousands of providers, and to innovate on their behalf. Come! Help us disrupt and improve health care," said Jonathan Bush, CEO and chairman, athenahealth. "athenahealth is building a cloud-based, information backbone-similar to what Amazon.com is for consumers, our platform will serve as a one-stop shop for providers seeking solutions to help them meet clinical and business goals. Unlike traditional HIT vendors that operate in closed silos and are unwilling to connect beyond their existing client base, we are all about openness." Kyle Armbrester, director of Business Development and head of More Disruption Please at athenahealth, added: "We are modernizing health care IT in a big way with Mashery by streamlining connectivity to our platform, and allowing the developer community to plug in and innovate. We're providing the data and knowledge from our cloud-based network, a captive audience for developers to innovate for, and an online sandbox to do it all in. The bottom line is that there's not enough innovation in health care; by lowering the point of entry for the development community, we're hoping they'll be enticed to create solutions for a cause that impacts us all-our health care." "We're eager to pair our working knowledge of the current health care app transformation with athenahealth's platform vision," said Oren Michels, CEO and co-founder of Mashery. "Mashery has years of experience helping its health care customers achieve tangible API program success-such as the 20 app prototypes built at the Health 2.0 Code-a-thon we hosted last October, where developers used data from fitness monitors, the FDA and insurance providers in apps that encourage ongoing healthy behaviors." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]