Paul Brient is athenahealth’s Chief Product and Operations Officer. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Since joining the company in 2019, Paul has led the development and delivery of athenahealth’s cloud-based solutions, driving innovation across the platform to reduce complexity, improve the physician experience, and create an industry-leading set of patient-facing applications. He also oversees the company’s revenue cycle management operations, uniting product innovation with operational excellence to infuse AI into our RCM operations to reduce the amount of “you do” work our customers handle as part of athenahealth’s co-sourcing partnership.

A central architect of athenahealth’s AI strategy, Paul is focused on building technology that works for physicians and other clinicians — including ambient documentation, chart assistants, and the company’s new AI-Native EHR. His approach emphasizes usability, physician impact, and deep integration within practice operations.

Prior to athenahealth, Paul served as CEO of PatientKeeper, a provider of software applications that streamline physician workflows in the inpatient setting. He sold the company to HCA in 2014 and served as an executive at HCA while continuing to lead PatientKeeper until he joined athenahealth in 2019. Earlier in his career, he held senior executive roles at McKesson Corporation, HPR, and The Boston Consulting Group, and founded BCS, an early physician office management software company.

Paul holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University.