Inspiration, market-- identifying a market opportunity, inspiration. Athena Health starts as-- Yeah, well it started as a series of women's health.And alternative to maternity care.
faces the Porter Square bookstore. Athenaeum Press was a textbook publisher for the most part.
He's making sure that people actually use the software in a way that he desires and get outcomes that they desire in order to monetize. So Athena -- now, anybody can use Athena . And we don't charge you until you get a claim paid, or a chart filed, or a patient in your office.
And actually, if you look at this piece of dialogue here, this particular example it is a moment So I brought in Athena there, and I think that is in character for her.
Did I see you on Excalibur? I was Athena . I was nine. So you would sign on, and then you could just banish anyone you didn't like if they were talking.
So I could be a superstar. I could be Athena . And it was extraordinary how fast this thing grew.
There's a line in the film where the George Clooney character as a kid and he has built a jet pack. And the Athena character, who is our secret weapon and we're not going to talk about her too much, but check it out. And she says to him, did you build this yourself?
Right. Yeah. Yes. And I mean, just touching upon this too, your casting choices are incredible with Raffey Cassidy and Britt Robertson as Athena and Casey Newton. And I want to talk a little bit about the character names, not go too deep into it.
And all of a sudden, you find out why he is that way. So that was Athena .
isn't the doctor that usually does it, the coding and defending and documenting and tax filing energy goes right up to 11. And that's what Athena ran into. And that's what everybody in health care runs into.
And then whoever needs to speak claims-ish or filing-ish can translate it through Google translator and tell whichever claims system that needs to know. And that was where Athena -- it was the idea of not being able to sufficiently code for, get paid for, exchange information around what we were doing that caused us to start to build our own cloud.
We were going to build-- So we changed the vision statement of the company. It was Athena Women's Health is going to be a management infrastructure that helps make women's health work as it should. And we switched it to Athena Health-- not Athena Women's Health-- will be an information infrastructure that helps make health care work as it should.
faces the Porter Square bookstore. That's the Athenaeum Press Building.
faces the Porter Square bookstore. It has the statue of Athena that you can see from the Red Line as you cross.
It was Athena Women's Health is going to be a management infrastructure that helps make women's health work as it should. And we switched it to Athena Health-- not Athena Women's Health-- will be an information infrastructure that helps make health care work as it should. And once we did that, we were opened up to selling to anybody.
Earl on, when you're describing this course. There are now 100,000 connections between Athena net and Legacy Systems labs, pharmacies, hospitals, and more being built every day.
Earl on, when you're describing this course. Is there a next big hurdle for Athena Health?
And I could use those as inspiration as well. And so this is my translation of a vase painting of Athena into a comic book version of her. And for the monsters, I'm just using my imagination.
There's hundreds of other ones. It came fully formed from my forehead like Athena .
And all of a sudden, you find out why he is that way. Right, that's Athena 's voice, and then obviously, this display is, you actually-- I showed this to some writers on the show that I work on
Earl on, when you're describing this course. So down the split was the world HQ of Athena Health and the washer and dryer.
The Internet was still being invented. And I remember there was an MIT project then called Project Athena where they were playing around with something called Boxer. Does anybody have any idea, well anyway it was the first tinkering around with the idea of connecting one piece of information with another.
Yeah, the fig. Yes. Big fan. And we'll skip over Athena because I know that's-- but obviously, the Greek goddess. Yes. Well, I think the thing that's fun about the cast is that we have people that the public knows very well,
Earl on, when you're describing this course. There's no correlation between your performance and their performance like there is with Athena .
And actually, if you look at this piece of dialogue here, this particular example it is a moment So Odysseus returns home from the Trojan War, and Athena puts him in a magical disguise.
And actually, if you look at this piece of dialogue here, this particular example it is a moment And so I had to bring in something that wasn't in the original, which is Athena comes and lifts the dog's spirit out of its body.
I will do whatever I got to do to get these teenagers access to opportunities. And we'll explore the National Hellenic Museum, or the Athena Greek Restaurant.
I could be Athena . But yeah, so this is a book-length effort to justify my decision to be Athena , and not learn Fortran
Can we create different specializations below doctor and make care cheaper? That was an idea that came out of it, went into Athena women's health. Another one was most of the people we treated in an ambulance didn't need to be transported.
Earl on, when you're describing this course. Because people-- now those things don't work at the level of security and fidelity that Athena net does.
Earl on, when you're describing this course. that work long hours, that could grock technology as well as anybody at Google or Athena .
And my daughter has two guinea pigs. Actually, they died. But they were called Artemis and Athena because she's really into Ancient Greek mythology. And she's going to get two new guinea pigs.
As long as all our cells are more or less doing that, we will have healthy bodies. And the new exciting idea in cancer-- this is, particularly, work of a woman called Athena Aktipis at Arizona State University, she's someone who studies animal societies, human societies.
I could be Athena . So there's never been a time that people were creating the internet that they weren't also posing as Apollo, Athena , or whatever, to chat with each other about end runs,
to understand. It also makes a very complicated topic possibly very scary for some of us who haven't seen all our way through it. But in addition to being a soon to be best selling author, Jonathan, also the president CEO and chairman of Athena Health which he co-founded in 1997.
OK. But we're not going to necessarily talk deeply about the business today, although we'll get to that. We'd like to talk about the book, which is just as much the Jonathan story and the health care story as it is the Athena Health story. So Jonathan-- I'll start you off with kind of a life of Jonathan question.
I'm like, wait. No, no! You don't understand. Because then it's going to be like this sub strata, and then there's going to be all these Athena Women's Health that are built on top, and you're like, OK, I won't quit for another month.
Maybe a little bit. Because in the crowd here, we probably have-- even though you'd like all of them to work for Athena forever and we'd like all the Googlers to work at Google forever.
So we're close Telemachus in this scene, but Mentor is appearing up on the hillside behind him. This photo doesn't capture it, but even behind him, even farther up the hill, is Athena overlooking. So again, you get to kind of really challenge your own perspective in terms of looking both what's in the foreground as well as what's in the distance.