athenahealth has launched MDP Labs, a new innovation program hosted in the company’s San Francisco office, inviting entrepreneurs with novel technologies that can help fix what is broken in healthcare to apply.
“In 2011, we launched the athenahealth Marketplace wherein we opened a door for entrepreneurs to deliver new innovations to thousands of providers via our national cloud platform,” Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, said in a statement. “We are now supersizing our efforts-committing to fill 200 seats of our San Francisco office with the next generation of doers and big thinkers -and ushering in the next stage of the healthcare internet. By consolidating fresh talent, we can help fast track innovative solutions to market, making healthcare IT much more relevant, valuable, and ‘shop-able’ for providers and their patients.”
MDP Labs is open to all healthcare and technology entrepreneurs, from seed-stage startups to mature companies. Companies will be evaluated based on their team, business model, stage of development, demonstrated traction, and strategic fit with athenahealth’s service portfolio and business model. Unlike many accelerator and incubator programs, MDP Labs will not take equity in participating companies.
Those accepted to the program will benefit from access to office space in athenahealth’s downtown San Francisco (SoMA) location with a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, tailored programming from internal R&D and business experts, ongoing mentorship, partnerships, funding opportunities and exposure to potential clients.
The so called Reverse Pitch Day will take place at the San Francisco athenahealth office on June 13, 2017. Applications for MDP Labs are now open and close on July 7.