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Jonathan Bush on Zus Health, Athena Health, and How to Fix Health Care

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At Barron's

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4.717 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Bush, CEO of Zus Health, sat down with Barron's Andy Serwer to discuss his various health-care ventures as well as the chronic challenges facing the U.S. health-care system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to At Bairns. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Jonathan

0:09.4

Bush, founder and CEO of Zeus Healthcare. Jonathan, great to see you.

0:13.6

Same here, Andy. That's a treat.

0:16.2

Zeus means what? King of the Greek gods? And then what problem is Zeus health care trying to solve?

0:24.9

Zeus is in fact, even though we misspelled it in order to own the brand, assuming we ever become

0:31.0

famous and have a brand to protect, is in fact Athena's father, among other important jobs he played as a head god and a fountain

0:40.5

of a font of a lot of the story. And in fact, Zeus Health endeavors to be the font of a lot of

0:48.0

the story by being a common medical record, just the record, not the software that the ladies at the office or the doctors

0:56.2

in the exam room use, but just the actual version of truth that lies beneath. Just as you can

1:02.0

walk up to any bank machine and see your balance and all the data that sits in one place,

1:08.6

regardless of what front end you're at, Zeus endeavors to be a single,

1:13.9

always on, logically join, because they all, all these different places make data and

1:19.8

manifest it in different ways, one logically joined version of truth that doctors and patients

1:25.9

can use.

1:26.9

All right, so both for doctors and patients.

1:28.4

Yeah, start with doctors and we'll get to patients.

1:30.4

My dream is the patients, but the laws are such that the doctors, I am allowed to compel

1:36.5

every hospital and doctor's office to give me data if it's a doctor I'm serving.

1:40.5

But do you run squarely into HIPAA with this?

1:42.8

I use HIPAA as my truncheon because HIPAA and another law that we worked on called

1:49.3

the Cures Act back in 2016 makes it illegal to block the sharing of electronic data

1:55.1

with another doctor who's treating a patient.

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