Critical Innovation In Healthcare Claims Processing: athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush (Part 4)

SM: You have innovated a rules engine that drives claims filing, which I am assuming has a bunch of codes and other data you have to file against for the claims to be processed. Would you classify what you have done as an expert system? JB: An expert system intends to imply artificial intelligence whereas

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Critical Innovation In Healthcare Claims Processing: athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush (Part 3)

SM: You essentially built a patient information system. JB: Exactly. We had plans to eventually start billing, and by 1999 we were well on our way down that route.

Critical Innovation In Healthcare Claims Processing: athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush (Part 2)

SM: Entrepreneurs often have a chip on their shoulder from sources such as their families or surroundings. Do you think that applies to you? JB: I had relatives who were in public service and people were casting stones at them, forming opinions about me, my parents and my brothers, without really knowing me. Perhaps that

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Critical Innovation In Healthcare Claims Processing: athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush (Part 1)

SM: Jonathan, let’s start with your background and your personal story. JB: I grew up in New York City. Medicine was the only career that nobody had done yet in my family, so I figured that would be a good career for me. I could be the best in my family in my profession and

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Billions In The Bubble: Siara CEO Vivek Ragavan (Part 7)

SM: Was Atrica focused on service providers as well? VR: We were focused on helping businesses get broadband services like high-speed data. We thought Ethernet would be driven by the broadband requirements of businesses and homes and expected that businesses would come first, which indeed happened.

Billions In The Bubble: Siara CEO Vivek Ragavan (Part 6)

SM: You moved on from Redback in May of 2001. What came next? VR: I joined Atrica, which was about Ethernet. When I was at Redback a lot of us were talking about how Ethernet was going to dominate and that SONET would transition into an Ethernet network. Ethernet was already data-centric. The only thing

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Billions In The Bubble: Siara CEO Vivek Ragavan (Part 5)

SM: How is it that Siara knew the gaps in the Cisco architecture? VR: Ravi came from Cisco, and what really enticed him to come was the chance to build a new routing architecture. His expectation was that it would have all kinds of advantages over the Cisco IOS architecture.

Billions In The Bubble: Siara CEO Vivek Ragavan (Part 4)

SM: Who was on was your team at Siara? VR: Dave Stiles was the CTO. Mike Yamamura came over from AMD where he ran ASIC development. We had a great software team. We hired Ravi Chandra from Cisco, and he built the whole routing team.