The Growing Legend of Athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush

Profane badass. Renaissance leader. Super hero. Those were some of the reactions on social media to a photo this week capturing athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush crouched over an unconscious man trying to save his life with a couple of construction workers. His act also underscored his status as a larger than life character across healthcare...

Jonathan Bush

One key part of why Bush has become a cult of personality is his willingness to own what he says rather than distancing himself from controversial comments by framing them on background. For example, he’s also not afraid to make fun of himself as with his antics at the HISTalk party HIStalkapalooza at HIMSS last year with Epic CEO Judy Faulkner...

As a cloud-based EMR provider he has been in an ongoing interoperability debate with Faulkner and suggested at one point that he would pay Epic’s fee to participate in CommonWell if she was too cheap...

He’s become the healthcare Chuck Norris. You can’t beat Jonathan Bush because he’s Jonathan Bush and no one messes with Jonathan Bush.