Jonathan Bush, cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, put his emergency medical training to use when he noticed a main who suffered an apparent heart attack and proceeded to administer CPR.
Mr. Bush was in San Francisco for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference when he reportedly saw a man on the ground outside a convenience store. He administered CPR to the man until the paramedics arrived.
Mr. Bush previously worked as an EMT with the New Orleans Health Department, and he was a medic in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Bush was later asked about the incident at the StartUp Health Festival, according to MedCity News, where Mr. Bush compared what happened to the healthcare industry overall. "It was a lot like the healthcare industry: A lot of people were standing around tweeting about it but no one was trying to do anything about this guy lying in the street," he said.
athenahealth confirmed the incident. The man's condition is still unknown.
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