Jonathan Bush, head at athena health, shares his views on how hard it is to prove meaningful use and why it can be easy to connect with other providers.
Jonathan Bush, CEO at athena health, has a reputation for straight talk. In this interview at MGMA 2011, he insists that meaningful use and interoperability have gotten blown all out of proportion. It's actually pretty easy to meet meaningful use standards, in his mind. And interoperability is just a fancy word for doing the right thing and getting paid for it.
HIPAA highlights: 2 disturbing class actions, OCR risk analysis enforcement
April 24th 2025Two class-action lawsuits targeting the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System for years-long cyberstalking and unauthorized access to protected health information spotlight massive HIPAA risk-analysis failures and underscore the urgent need for stronger health care cybersecurity safeguards.