Tufts Medical Center will award the Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership to athenahealth Chairman and CEO Jonathan Bush.
As the recipient of the award, Bush is being honored for exemplifying visionary and transformational leadership in the community, according to the organization. Tufts cites Bush's "passion for uniting individualized and coordinated patient care with the demands and practicalities of healthcare management. His innovative work has transformed how the healthcare industry operates, from patients to healthcare providers nationwide."
Bush co-founded athenahealth in 1997 and took it public in 2007 in the most successful initial public offering that year. Bush's background includes serving as an emergency medical technician for the City of New Orleans, training as a medic in the U.S. Army and working as a management consultant in the healthcare practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the College of Social Studies from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Bush currently serves on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.
The award will be presented to Bush at the 2016 Working Wonders for Tufts Medical Center benefit event on March 16 in Boston.
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