athenahealth, Inc : athenahealth, Inc. Appoints Charlie Baker and Jacqueline Kosecoff to Board of Directors
06/28/2012| 04:05pm US/Eastern

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athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based
practice management, electronic
health record (EHR),
and care
coordination services to medical groups, today announced the
appointment of health care leaders Charles D. Baker and Jacqueline B.
Kosecoff Ph.D. to its Board of Directors.
Dr. Kosecoff will replace Richard N. Foster who did not stand for
re-election at athenahealth's 2012 annual stockholder meeting, having
served as a director since 2005. Mr. Baker's appointment represents a
new board seat and increases the number of directors on athenahealth's
board to ten.
Dr. Kosecoff is a Managing Partner at Moriah Partners, LLC, a private
equity firm with a focus on software, content, and services and is a
Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus, a global private equity company. Prior
to these roles, she served as a Senior Advisor at Optum, a leading
information and technology-enabled health services business of
UnitedHealth Group, consisting of OptumHealth, OptumInsight, and OptumRx
and representing over 30,000 employees worldwide who focus on population
health management, care delivery and improving all of the clinical and
operating elements of the health system. Dr. Kosecoff served as Chief
Executive Officer of OptumRx, a leader in the delivery, clinical
management and affordability of prescription medications and consumer
health products, and before that, Chief Executive Officer of Ovations
Pharmacy Solutions Division, a UnitedHealth Group company. She has
served as a consultant to the World Health Organization's Global Quality
Assessment Programs, on the Institute of Medicine's Board of Health Care
Services, the RAND Graduate School's Board of Governors. Currently,
Dr. Kosecoff sits on the board of directors for CareFusion Corporation
(NYSE: CFN), Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE), and STERIS Corporation
(NYSE: STE).
Mr. Baker is the Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners,
focusing on investing in mid-size firms, primarily in the health care
services industry. Prior to joining General Catalyst, he was the
Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, losing a close four
way race to incumbent Governor Deval Patrick. Mr. Baker served a
decade-long tenure as Chief Executive Officer of Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care (HPHC), a $2 billion, 1 million member health benefits plan serving
individuals and employers. Under his leadership, HPHC went on to become
the highest ranked health plan in the country for member satisfaction
and clinical effectiveness for five years in a row. In the 1990s,
Mr. Baker served as Secretary of Health and Human Services and Secretary
of Administration and Finance for the state of Massachusetts.
"We are fortunate to add two outstanding members to the athenahealth
board. Charlie and Jackie share a rich history in leadership at two of
the more successful health care businesses in the country. Their
respective expertise in policy, care coordination and data management
will deepen our talent pool as we advance the goal of making health care
work as it should," said Jonathan Bush, Chairman and CEO of athenahealth.
Bush added, "We thank Richard Foster for his important insight and
contributions in guiding athenahealth's emergence over the last seven
years."
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based business
services for physician practices. athenahealth's service offerings are
based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic
health record (EHR)
software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base, integrated
back-office service operations, and care
coordination services. For more information, please visit http://www.athenahealth.com
or call 888-652-8200.

athenahealth, Inc.
Dana Quattrochi (Investors)
Director,
Investor Relations
(617) 402-1329
investorrelations@athenahealth.com
or
athenahealth,
Inc.
Amanda Cheslock (Media)
(212) 446-1884
acheslock@sloanepr.com
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