Comments on: Former Athenahealth, RelayHealth Leaders Form Startup Maria Health, with Venrock Headlining Investor Group http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/11/19/former-athenahealth-relayhealth-leaders-form-startup-maria-health-with-venrock-headlining-investor-group/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Steven Wardell http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/11/19/former-athenahealth-relayhealth-leaders-form-startup-maria-health-with-venrock-headlining-investor-group/comment-page-1/#comment-40526 Steven Wardell Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:11:21 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=6212#comment-40526 There have been lots of little glimpses of Maria Health in the press but this is the first good overview I have seen. I have heard that Maria Health parallels AthenaHealth in that Maria Health will provide tools to patients / consumers to help them make full use of their benefits, to track their care and payments, and to get reimbursed easily (a lot like what AthenaHealth does for physician practices). It makes sense to solve the many problems patients face with their benefits and payments one time excellently and capture it in a rules system for use by everyone else who is a member of the network (which is what AthenaNet does). How will they make money on patients / consumers though? Ads? Freemium? A small piece of the transaction? A small piece of the incremental benefit they create for users? There have been lots of little glimpses of Maria Health in the press but this is the first good overview I have seen.

I have heard that Maria Health parallels AthenaHealth in that Maria Health will provide tools to patients / consumers to help them make full use of their benefits, to track their care and payments, and to get reimbursed easily (a lot like what AthenaHealth does for physician practices).

It makes sense to solve the many problems patients face with their benefits and payments one time excellently and capture it in a rules system for use by everyone else who is a member of the network (which is what AthenaNet does).

How will they make money on patients / consumers though? Ads? Freemium? A small piece of the transaction? A small piece of the incremental benefit they create for users?

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