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athenaClinicals Commentary
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Eder Lagemann
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CIO

Relationship

athenahealth is generally responsive, but their support can be slow. When I say slow, I am not...

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Jan 2026

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CIO

Culture, Value

I do not like the way athenahealth charges. Their licensing and pricing model is convoluted, and...

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Jan 2026

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CIO

Relationship, Product

athenahealth’s marketplace is a real game changer. The problem with many EHR vendors is that instead...

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Jan 2026

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CIO

Loyalty, Product

We selected athenaClinicals because it best aligned with our ambulatory strategy and enterprise...

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Jan 2026

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VP/Other Executive

Culture

We faced significant challenges during the sales process of athenaClinicals. The vendor made several...

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Dec 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Operations, Product

athenahealth needs to improve how they offer features and functionality to end users. They have a...

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Dec 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

The vendor's product support is lacking and needs a significant overhaul. Their customer support...

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Dec 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Value

The vendor's SaaS model is a major advantage because it eliminates the need for us to maintain...

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Dec 2025

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CIO

Loyalty

We chose athenaClinicals because athenahealth had more functionality and capability and because the...

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Dec 2025

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CIO

Product

athenaClinicals is easy to use and navigate. athenahealth has a vision. They are all about AI, like...

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Dec 2025

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Director

Relationship

The web support ticketing solution is very frustrating. I submitted a ticket asking somebody on...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Product

Our dental system, which is integrated with athenaOne, wasn't fully integrated. It is not that...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Relationship, Product

A lot of times, we get alerts from athenahealth that don't mean anything. The alerts just say that...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Loyalty, Value

For the next several years, we will still be on athenaClinicals. It is way too expensive to switch...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Operations

athenahealth provides a ton of videos that we can go out and look at and review. They also offer...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Product

We actually have too much information coming in, and that is the problem. With the type of facility...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Value

Everything we want outside of what is not in the base package has a cost. athenahealth tries to...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Loyalty, Product

If we had to make the decision again, we would probably stick with athenahealth. For the specialty...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Relationship

athenahealth’s support has gotten better over the years, and they are very good and proactive with...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Relationship, Product

Sometimes, athenahealth will make a change to the way that the application looks, and it won't be...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Product

athenaClinicals could probably improve a bit with some AI functionality, like the ability to use...

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Oct 2025

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Director

Loyalty, Product

We went to the athenahealth EHR system and are continuing to review workflows and processes to...

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Sep 2025

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Physician

Product

I like athenahealth’s quality reporting aspects, like the management of the data in terms of doing...

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Sep 2025

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Physician

Product, Value

I like athenaClinicals. It works really well for me in terms of data organization, note writing, and...

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Sep 2025

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Physician

Product

I used to have another EHR, but athenahealth has such a better one. I wouldn't consider any vendor...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals is easy for people to learn. As we bring on new providers or groups that have not...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

athenaClinicals is aesthetically pleasing; it eases the user just by looking at it. It doesn't look...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

There is an additional fee with athenahealth's ambient AI solution. Our providers would like that...

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Sep 2025

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Manager

Product

I would like to see improvements in the Interface Message Queue Manager. That is where athenahealth...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Loyalty, Product, Value

Our organization has realized specific and tangible benefits by using multiple offerings from...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Culture, Product

athenaClinicals is great. The vendor didn't oversell or underdeliver anything. The system is what it...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Relationship

We have been a client of athenahealth for a long time, and we meet with their executive team...

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Sep 2025

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CMIO

Product

athenaClinicals has a few shortcomings, like its interoperability, timeline adherence, and project...

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Sep 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Product

One thing that athenahealth could do over the next year that would drive satisfaction would be to...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Product

We push the BI from athenaClinicals directly to Power BI from Microsoft. At a higher level, Power BI...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

athenahealth does not keep all promises related to the timeliness of fixing issues. They say that...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Operations

We work a lot on integrations. We do a lot of expansion work with athenahealth. Their project...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Value

We have visible charges from athenahealth for new products that have an add-on charge. There are...

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Aug 2025

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Physician

Value

athenahealth doesn't charge for every little thing, but if an organization wants to make the system...

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Aug 2025

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Physician

Culture, Product

athenaClinicals works the way athenahealth promoted it to back when we first bought it. The vendor's...

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Aug 2025

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Physician

Loyalty, Relationship

athenahealth is getting bigger and bigger. Working with them used to be like taking a speedboat and...

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Aug 2025

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CEO/President

Product

With athenaClinicals, there is no option with upgrades. Users either are current or are not.

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Aug 2025

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CEO/President

Operations

With athenaClinicals, every time the vendor has a release, there is ongoing training. They have as...

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Aug 2025

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CEO/President

Product, Value

We add quite a few new providers regularly, and after the new providers use athenaClinicals, I...

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Aug 2025

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CEO/President

Relationship

With athenahealth, we have two pathways for support. We have a relationship manager we meet with...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

athenahealth is a fantastic partner. We meet with them all the time, and we do all kinds of things...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

The benefit of using athenaClinicals is that we have a single integrated platform. Because the...

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Aug 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

We are not done with healthcare IT. We have so much more to do. athenahealth is a good partner. They...

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Aug 2025

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Director

Product

I like the simplicity of athenaClinicals. The flow is simple. athenahealth is what I know, and I do...

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Jun 2025

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Director

Product

We use third-party solutions in place of offerings from athenahealth due to provider preference,...

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Jun 2025

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Director

Product

We spend a lot of time making clicks in athenaClinicals. athenahealth could minimize the amount of...

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Jun 2025

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Director

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth is behind the game on getting electronic check-in. They offer things, but they are just...

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Jun 2025

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Director

Relationship

Our first line at athenahealth is obviously customer service. We have an assigned representative who...

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Jun 2025

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Manager

Relationship, Product

There is no EMR that reduces pain points. Also, I have never talked to athenahealth’s executives.

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May 2025

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Manager

Operations

athenahealth seems to be very good at providing detailed training. athenahealth doesn’t charge extra...

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May 2025

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Physician

Relationship

We sometimes say that athenahealth is like a black hole because if we escalate something, they just...

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May 2025

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Physician

Operations

When athenahealth does upgrades, our team gets the upgrade notes, and we go through a discussion a...

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May 2025

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Physician

Loyalty, Product

I don't believe there is one EHR vendor out there that is marching into the future the way they...

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May 2025

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Physician

Loyalty, Product

We use third parties in several areas instead of athenahealth's solutions. athenahealth tends to...

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May 2025

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Physician

Value

Everybody is trying to get the best deal, and we don’t feel like we get cheated by athenahealth....

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May 2025

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Physician

Product

Of the current athenahealth solutions we use, we use some of the solutions out of necessity just...

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May 2025

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Physician

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals is a very easy product to learn. We implement each of our implementations pretty...

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May 2025

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Physician

Loyalty

If we were looking for a new EHR vendor, I think that everybody would want to switch to Epic. All of...

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May 2025

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