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CIO

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenaClinicals does well as an independent ambulatory solution. The vendor's support people are...

Dec 2025
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CIO

Loyalty

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

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...

Dec 2025
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth gives great clinical support. If an issue is affecting patients, then we get all hands...

Oct 2025
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Director

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals is a solid, stable product. It is a little complex, but it works when users know how...

Oct 2025
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Director

Relationship, Value

athenahealth keeps coming out with new things that are free and that replace something that we...

Oct 2025
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Director

Relationship

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

Oct 2025
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Director

Product

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oct 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Some partners work well with athenaClinicals, but some things are a little more difficult or...

Oct 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty

The main reason we are moving away from athenaClinicals is that we wanted to be on the same system...

Oct 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

athenaClinicals is very intuitive. In terms of searching for things in the system, it learns our...

Oct 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

athenahealth’s frontline support is what lacks the most. Our customer service managers are good, and...

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...

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...

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...

Oct 2025
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Director

Product

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sep 2025
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Manager

Product

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

Sep 2025
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CMIO

Loyalty, Product, Value

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

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...

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...

Sep 2025
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CMIO

Product

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

Sep 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Product

athenaClinicals has a smaller footprint in our environment. However, we are quite big fans of...

Aug 2025
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Director

Loyalty

If athenahealth will work for an organization, they should go with athenaClinicals because it will...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth is very flexible and is a customer-service-centric vendor. When we need a solution,...

Aug 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aug 2025
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Director

Product

athenahealth could improve medical-necessity checking. Right now, if a provider orders an imaging...

Aug 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Product

When it comes to interoperability, athenahealth is getting there. The interoperability from an...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

I can go to a pretty high level in athenahealth, but I don't go to any level. I can go to the...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship, Product

athenahealth could help our workflow with the clinical decision support that is maintained by...

Aug 2025
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Director

Product

One thing we do use on the athenahealth application that is relatively new and has really proved to...

Aug 2025
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Director

Operations

We handle all of our own implementations. We don't let athenahealth do those. All the vendor does is...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

We have a very good relationship with our CSM. They are very good at keeping us current on...

Aug 2025
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CEO/President

Product

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aug 2025
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Director

Product, Value

I'm a big fan of athenahealth. By being able to bundle athenahealth products, we are able to have a...

Aug 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenaClinicals is good, but there is room for improvement for sure. We have been really pushing...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

We hear from athenahealth about a lot of things that are on their road map, and we see things on...

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth does engage with us and understand where our pain points are. A lot of times, despite...

Aug 2025
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Director

Product

Interoperability is a struggle with athenaClinicals. To be fair to athenahealth, some of the issues...

Aug 2025
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Physician

Product

I think some areas of improvement would be the vendor's patient portal and patient app. I would also...

Jul 2025
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Physician

Loyalty

If I were part of an outpatient clinic and not affiliated with a hospital, I would choose...

Jul 2025
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Physician

Relationship, Product

I think the vendor is doing a lot. They are good with continuity of care devices and certain data. I...

Jul 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...

Jun 2025
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Director

Product

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

Jun 2025
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Director

Product

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

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...

Jun 2025
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Director

Relationship

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

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.

May 2025
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Manager

Operations

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

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...

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...

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...

May 2025
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

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

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....

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...

May 2025
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Physician

Operations, Product

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

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...

May 2025
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth doesn't offer very much hands-on training. They just go with self-training.

May 2025
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Manager

Product, Value

athenaClinicals is a user-friendly system that isn't hard for new providers and staff members to...

May 2025
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Manager

Product

athenaClinicals' reporting functionality is a bit difficult in the system unless we purchase an...

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Manager

Relationship, Product

athenahealth is pretty good in the clinical space. My only real issue with athenahealth in the...

May 2025
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CIO

Product, Value

athenahealth has a very good outpatient product on the clinical side but doesn't have an inpatient...

Feb 2025
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Physician

Relationship

athenahealth is constantly updating the system, and they take feedback from me for that. I can write...

Feb 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Product

Our providers really like using athenaClinicals for medical visits. Also, our behavioral health...

Dec 2024
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Director

Product

There is no way to do things for one of our specialties in athenaClinicals, so we had to get...

Dec 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Operations

Part of our issue in athenaPractice was that we overcustomized a lot of things, and that made it...

Dec 2024
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Director

Operations

athenahealth has a lot of training modules that we can watch and training sessions that we can sign...

Dec 2024
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Director

Culture, Relationship, Product

One struggle that we have had with athenahealth has been with billing. We have had a lot of...

Dec 2024
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