Cloud-based health IT vendor athenahealth has appointed Prakash Khot as its new chief technology officer.
Mr. Khot will be responsible for overseeing athenaNet, the company’s core technology platform. He will report directly to CEO Jonathan Bush.
“Sustaining athenaNet as an open platform is critical for enabling innovation in the healthcare cloud,” said Mr. Bush. “The importance of our technology platform cannot be overstated for our business and health IT as a whole, and Prakash’s combination of technology expertise, leadership experience and an entrepreneurial approach are exactly what we need to execute the roadmap that will make this possible.”