Live at HLTH: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Health—featuring Jonathan Bush

The same way that a company like Stripe provides payment processing infrastructure for eCommerce, Zus Health is building the infrastructure for digital health.CEO Jonathan Bush and his team are doing the dirty work to make electronic health records more accessible and accelerate innovation in the patient relationship management space.Prior to Zus, Jonathan spent 22 years as CEO of Athena Health, the leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic health records. He also served as a US Army Medic during Desert Storm and EMT for the City of New Orleans.On this episode of The Beat, Jonathan joins hosts Dr. Gautam Gulati and Dr. Jordan Shlain  to explain how building infrastructure will give the current wave of digital health companies staying power and encourage innovation in the space. Jonathan describes how his team is moving old medical records into ZODS (the Zus operational data store) and when the protocol will be open for building. Listen in for Jonathan’s insight on the explosion of venture capital in health tech and find out how you can be a part of the Zus Health team.Topics CoveredHow the goal of Zus Health differs from Jonathan’s previous venture with AthenaWhy the claims-based architecture of the healthcare system is resistant to the faster-better-cheaper model of innovationHow Zus is to healthcare what Plaid is to bankingHow venture capital in the health tech space has increased exponentially in the last 7 yearsJonathan’s hope that building the infrastructure will give the current wave of digital health companies more staying power (and encourage people to build more)The constraints Jonathan’s team faces in building Zus and when the protocol will be open for buildingWhy the term emergency medical records or EMR is no longer relevantGiving healthcare data the agency to find you vs. waiting for you to access itThe mapping Jonathan’s team at Zus is doing to move old medical records into ZODS (Zus operational data store)The many open positions on the Zus Health teamHow Jonathan defines health as the full exposure to personal joy Connect with Jonathan BushZus Health Connect with Dr. Gautam Gulati & Dr. Jordan ShlainHLTHDr. Gulati on TwitterDr. Gulati on LinkedInDr. Shlain on TwitterDr. Shlain on LinkedIn ResourcesAthena HealthNoomCommonWell Health AllianceCarequality21st Century Cures ActInnovaccer Introductory Quote[5:07] “Is this the equivalent in the FinTech world of what Plaid is to banks, Zus is to...” “You got it. Stipe or Twilio. You don’t want to go and build, you know, 600 connections to 600 hospitals and then do all the normalization. One guy go do that miserable work and then serve up 15 different APIs for manifesting it in whatever software you’re building.”