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athenahealth's vision is aligned with their system being an ambulatory solution for big and small...

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In terms of integrations, we have seen that athenahealth is able to deliver more of what they commit...

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athenahealth's model is that they really want health providers and the health system not to worry...

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VP/Other Executive

Product

I like that athenaClinicals is easy to use. We don't need a lot of provider support for it. The...

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VP/Other Executive

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If everyone uses athenahealth's standard, then everyone will be on the same playing field. If users...

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VP/Other Executive

Operations

It is hard for us to train clinical staff members to learn new workflows in athenaClinicals, and I...

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

We do a lot of escalation. Even when we meet with athenahealth's executive team, I have to go ask...

Sep 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Operations, Product

Users can't really make athenaClinicals their own. There are no modifications for athenaClinicals....

Sep 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenahealth could do a better job with the way they have implemented clinical templates and...

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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

Because of the unique structure of our organization, we break every system we touch. No system is...

Sep 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

We have an assigned account representative from athenahealth. Whenever we have an issue, we enter a...

Sep 2024
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CEO/President

Product

athenaClinicals is the industry standard in terms of how we do interconnections. The system does a...

Sep 2024
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CEO/President

Operations

When we compare athenaClinicals to other EMRs in terms of the training, nearly all of the staff...

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Director

Product

athenahealth would certainly still be within our top considerations if we were hypothetically in the...

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Director

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenahealth has come to the table more recently to try to get integration to where it needs to be,...

Sep 2024
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Director

Relationship

With athenahealth, I think the biggest thing is there are timelines that are ambitious and timelines...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

athenahealth's support model is horrible. We put our case in, and it might sit a few days before it...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

I wasn't really impressed with athenahealth's implementation, but then that was what I did...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty, Product

Even after several years, athenahealth is still lacking in some functionalities. Some of the things...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

athenahealth does a good job of supporting integration and interoperability goals. athenaClinicals...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

The providers like athenaClinicals. Everyone finds it relatively simple to work with, other than the...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

I know athenahealth will charge us if we need a custom report written, and they will charge us a lot...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

When athenahealth does their upgrades, they roll them out. The upgrades are usually pretty smooth....

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

athenahealth has a number of online training offerings that are okay. Online training can be pretty...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

athenaClinicals does in fact lack a few things I would like to see it have. I think that there are...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

If it had been my money, I would have to say we didn't receive our money's worth, but it was not my...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

We have a CSM with athenahealth. Their scope is limited. As a matter of fact, there are things that...

Sep 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

I would not buy athenaClinicals again. I have learned to live with it, but it would definitely not...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship, Value

athenahealth is now owned by venture capitalists instead of Jonathan Bush. We have seen changes we...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Operations, Product

athenaClinicals is very stable. It doesn't fall down. It doesn't crash. It does what it is supposed...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Operations, Product

I would tell others looking at athenaClinicals that it is very stable, so it doesn't crash very...

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Manager

Relationship

With athenaClinicals, there is this feeling that athenahealth is not paying attention to the work we...

Sep 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship

I'm sad to be so disappointed in athenahealth. We have always been really big fans of athenahealth....

Sep 2024
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Manager

Relationship

I would love to have some cadre of people at athenahealth who I could call, tell that we are looking...

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Manager

Relationship, Operations

The initial training happened a long time ago. With ongoing training, relatively few people know as...

Sep 2024
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Director

Product

There are some specialties that lag behind from an interoperability standpoint in athenaClinicals....

Aug 2024
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Director

Culture, Relationship

It is really a matter of semantics regarding how things are labeled, but there is some confusion...

Aug 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenahealth is getting there with all the other specialties, but they do not have clinical decision...

Aug 2024
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Director

Relationship

We have direct support from the CSM, who is phenomenal. But sometimes we discover things and have to...

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Director

Product, Value

The tangible outcomes we are looking for beyond patient outcomes are ease of use and things tied to...

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Director

Operations, Product

Sometimes our end users, specifically our physicians, question whether physicians at athenahealth...

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Director

Value

athenahealth may not meet the agreed-upon timeline, but they do keep their promises when creating...

Aug 2024
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Director

Operations

The upgrades for athenaClinicals are systematically done, and athenahealth offers excellent training...

Aug 2024
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Director

Product

The feedback that we have gotten from our providers about athenaClinicals has been that it isn't...

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Director

Operations, Product

The reports in athenaClinicals have been helpful because we can access them on the spot. A lot of...

Aug 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Operations, Product

With athenahealth, they use a SaaS model, so upgrades just get pushed to us. They give us a...

Aug 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty

We are sticking with athenaClinicals for the long term because there are leading organizations in...

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Physician

Product

athenahealth needs a better patient portal experience. They also need a better patient app. I think...

Jul 2024
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Physician

Product

I love how athenahealth takes feedback and inputs. They make that information real within the EMR....

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Physician

Product

I would tell a peer that athenaClinicals is built with information on medications, interactions, and...

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Director

Loyalty

Some of the main reasons that we went with athenahealth were their platform and their ability to...

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Director

Relationship

athenahealth does a great job. They do three upgrades a year on their platform. The vendor's...

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Manager

Relationship, Product

As part of athenahealth's application, they have an Interface message queue manager. I would like to...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Product

athenahealth’s upgrades have been pretty good lately. There have been hardly any problems. There are...

Jul 2024
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Manager

Relationship

Part of what makes athenahealth difficult is their support. But it has improved in the last year. We...

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Director

Product

There are additional integrations athenahealth could do, and they could potentially even look into...

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

The product meets a lot of needs, but it doesn't meet all needs. There are other things that we can...

Jul 2024
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Director

Product

Whenever a technology vendor gets the ability to consolidate, they always say they can do something...

Jul 2024
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Director

Relationship

I have not heard any issues from our team with the support when they need to reach out to somebody...

Jul 2024
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Director

Product

There is always room to grow and improve. Overall, I'm pleased, and the system is a quality product....

Jul 2024
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Director

Loyalty

Sometimes the delivery of new technology is a little slower than I would like, but the vendor has...

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Director

Value

athenahealth is not out of line with other EHR vendors when it comes to their charges. All EHR...

Jul 2024
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Director

Operations

Prior to the pandemic, there was more of a push to get our people out to train with athenahealth's...

Jul 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product

Ease of use is very important, especially when we have a lot of staff turnover. When we bring a new...

Jul 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product

I still have problems with reporting in athenaClinicals; the reporting is not as robust as it could...

Jul 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenaClinicals is not perfect by any means, but it gets the job done for us. The clinical aspect is...

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CEO/President

Product

The difference between athenaClinicals and some of the EMRs is that athenahealth always updates the...

Jul 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

Some EMR vendors have been experimenting with using AI to generate notes based on the patient and...

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Manager

Relationship

As we make suggestions, athenahealth does a good job of going through and addressing these through...

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Manager

Product

Certain things aren't labeled when athenahealth categorizes stuff, like incoming documents, and...

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Manager

Relationship, Operations

I have dealt with other EMRs. athenaClinicals isn't perfect, but it is about as good as an...

Jun 2024
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Manager

Relationship

There is a known issue in athenaClinicals that is causing havoc, and it has kept us pretty busy. The...

Jun 2024
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Manager

Product

athenahealth exceeds expectations when it comes to interoperability. Every other healthcare entity...

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Manager

Relationship

We have a fair amount of interaction with the vendor. We have contact with them when there are...

Jun 2024
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Manager

Product

We are pretty happy with the product. When the doctors dictate their notes into athenaClinicals,...

Jun 2024
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COO

Loyalty

One of athenahealth's big weaknesses is keeping up with how fast technology is changing. AI is a...

Jun 2024
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COO

Product

athenaClinicals’ big strength is that it is easy to use for physicians and providers who are...

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Manager

Loyalty

Until recently, the system's previsit process was notoriously horrible and didn't meet its purpose,...

Apr 2024
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Manager

Operations, Product

athenahealth is pretty proactive, and their system is easy for end users. It isn't overly...

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Manager

Operations, Product

There are a lot of ways that athenahealth could improve their documentation so that providers...

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CEO/President

Product, Value

The highlight with athenahealth is that they wick off a lot of the easier tasks that cost...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

We have a direct connection to athenahealth if we have to vent, and that is really good. I think a...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

athenahealth has global updates. With updates of other systems, customers are on different versions....

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

I think the only area that frustrates us a little is that athenahealth tends to try to do more...

Apr 2024
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Director

Culture, Relationship

We had an ask for athenahealth a long time ago, and it still has yet to be handled. They didn't...

Apr 2024
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Director

Culture

One of the reasons we like athenahealth is that their model is to get a portion of our income, so...

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Director

Operations, Product

athenaClinical’s biggest strength is interconnectivity with everything else. We have many interfaces...

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Director

Loyalty, Product

Probably the biggest thing I would improve with athenahealth is that it is so hard to get changes...

Apr 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

It was disappointing that athenahealth was charging a separate fee for telehealth. We would have...

Apr 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty, Operations

athenahealth is coming out with new functionality for their scheduling platform, and they don’t have...

Apr 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty, Relationship

Our relationship with athenahealth has gone stale. The same things hurt over and over, and there are...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

We have to use another solution’s reports to get information, patient information, or trends on who...

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Director

Product, Value

I absolutely would not buy athenaClinicals again. Most of the department heads would not. Only the...

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Director

Relationship

If we ask athenahealth a question, it just stays out there in binary heaven, and they just hope we...

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Director

Relationship, Operations

When athenahealth was here for the installation, we asked a question, and they still have not...

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Director

Product, Value

athenaClinicals is really a billing program. It was started in physician clinic offices to recapture...

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Director

Relationship, Operations, Product

I honestly can't think of anything that is better with athenaClinicals, and when we need to fix...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product, Value

In athenaClinicals, we have to put the same orders in three different times. For order number one,...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

We have had athenaClinicals for years and have seen no improvements. The system is as bad as it was...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations, Product

In athenaClinicals, the pharmacy department puts in most of the orders. After hours, the nurses do...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations, Product

As far as the athenaClinicals integration goes, when we went live, the interface hadn't even been...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

I would like to be able to run reports in athenaClinicals. I would like easier accessibility to the...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

I would love for athenaClinicals to delete the redundancy and do things in order entry. The process...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

athenahealth doesn’t want anything printed. If we want to print something in the system to lay it...

Apr 2024
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Director

Relationship, Product

With athenaClinicals, if we want anything, we almost have to call the IT team; if we want to know...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product

In athenaClinicals, we can’t even modify an order. That is one of the biggest things. If we put in a...

Apr 2024
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Director

Product, Value

athenaClinicals cuts on in the morning, and that is about it. I cannot say a single thing that it is...

Apr 2024
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Director

Relationship, Operations, Product

athenahealth has updates quite regularly. They will cue us to review the updates. When we get ready...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations

For training, athenahealth came and spent a week with us. They had department meetings once a day,...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations

The only way athenaClinicals was promoted to the pharmacy side was because one of athenahealth’s...

Apr 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Value

athenahealth absolutely charges for every little thing, and the charges keep going up. We switched...

Apr 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Product

If we don't put the allergies in athenaClinicals when the patient first comes in and we put in all...

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Manager

Operations, Product

Our staff loves athenaClinicals. It is just very user friendly. When new releases come out,...

Apr 2024
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Manager

Product

The only big problem that we have with athenaClinicals is integration with other systems at our...

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Manager

Operations

Our athenaClinicals training was not what we had envisioned. We were told that we would have a team...

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Manager

Culture

athenahealth keeps their promises, but then we find out there are price tags to some of those promises....

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Manager

Relationship

One of the things we like about athenahealth is that they listen to feedback and suggestions. Anyone...

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Manager

Relationship

I understand that athenathealth has had turnover, but sometimes we have to fight for an accurate...

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Manager

Relationship, Product

athenaClinicals is easy to use and does so much for us, especially on the quality measures. We love...

Apr 2024
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Physician

Relationship

It has gotten harder to reach out and talk to athenahealth’s support people over the last several...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Product

When there is a direct data feed into athenaClinicals, it ends up creating an excessive amount of...

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Physician

Product

Overall, athenaClinicals is a good medical record system. I like the fact that it integrates the...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Product

Working with athenaClinicals drives me crazy because we want all the information to be right there...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

athenaClinicals allows us to gather information on behalf of attorneys and in settlement cases. It...

Mar 2024
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Loyalty, Relationship

athenahealth keeps up with the yearly health insurance changes, especially when Medicare dictates...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Operations

The system pretty much meets our needs. Whenever the vendor makes a change or an upgrade, it will...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

I have noticed that athenahealth is quick to respond when we submit things to them. I have created...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Value

This solution has been instrumental in showcasing our hard work, negotiating better terms with our...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty

athenahealth has gone by the wayside and has started dividing out what they used to do. We are now...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

athenaClinicals is user friendly and intuitive. Compared to other EHR systems we have looked at,...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

I like that if we have issues, we can get ahold of a live person at athenahealth through their...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals could improve in the billing area to give our providers the ability to complete...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Relationship

I would not consider another EMR vendor. The strength of athenahealth is the support they give to...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Loyalty, Operations, Product

There are several big things that make athenahealth superior to our previous vendor. First of all,...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Value

athenahealth’s charges are a percentage of a collection. So the incentives are aligned so that when...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

I have gone to meetings, and I will talk to people in a clinic who are on their sixth EMR or...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Product

athenaClinicals is an online EMR, so we don't have to deal with the vendor sending us two or three...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Product

I was listening to an update from athenahealth, and they are reducing their clicks by about 40% in...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Product

athenaClinicals is a really good product, and I would definitely recommend it. I have been very...

Mar 2024
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CIO

Culture, Relationship, Value

athenahealth is doing a really good job these days. They are great at supporting our organization's...

Mar 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

I like the ability in athenaClinicals to create encounter plans for easier documentation for the...

Feb 2024
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Medication reconciliation and vaccine reconciliation are sometimes trouble spots in that doing those...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Culture, Value

athenahealth used to avoid charging for every little thing, and that is one of the things that they...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

I don't think that I would switch my affiliation with athenahealth. athenahealth's product has the...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

Up until about 2019 or so, one of athenahealth's largest sales pitches against some of the other...

Feb 2024
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Director

Product

athenahealth’s reporting is not very user friendly. It takes a lot of maneuvering, and that is not...

Feb 2024
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Director

Product

We have to build out the interfaces for interoperability, but the solution is able to exchange data....

Feb 2024
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Director

Relationship

Dealing with athenahealth’s support team can be frustrating. It feels like they are not reading the...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product

athenaClinicals has a robust reporting function. We can run a billion reports in athenaClinicals but...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

We have implemented lots of changes or updates in athenaClinicals, and athenahealth has done almost...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

There is a new version of athenaClinicals right now, and it looks a little too complicated. I prefer...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s technical support people are better than the account managers. athenahealth has a...

Feb 2024
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CIO

Product

athenaClinicals is serviceable. If someone is in an ambulatory setting, I think it is a very...

Jan 2024
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CIO

Culture, Relationship

athenahealth talks about a lot of HR and follow-up stuff behind the scenes, and what they say is...

Jan 2024
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Director

Product, Value

athenaClinicals has the nicest user interface and probably the most intuitive workflow for providers...

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth is very proactive with their updates. They put out movies and documentation.

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship, Operations

We have used athenahealth’s people to onboard new practices and have found that some of their...

Dec 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Value

athenahealth is stepping up their game. They have all these third-party products connected by an...

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth’s tier-one support team is pretty frustrating at times because the issue that I'm...

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship

We are involved with some top people at athenahealth to give them our viewpoint.

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth has a user community where people make suggestions on what updates they would like to...

Dec 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

There is a bit of a learning curve with athenaClinicals depending on a person's position in the...

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth doesn’t keep all their promises, but they do the best they can. Their system just...

Dec 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

I like that I'm used to athenaClinicals. Once I got familiar with the electronic health record, it...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

athenahealth's product should have more ability to integrate. We use an external system, and there...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

To improve my satisfaction with the product’s functionality meeting all my needs, athenahealth could...

Dec 2023
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Director

Loyalty

athenahealth is looking at some updates to their online check-in piece and the self-facing patient...

Dec 2023
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Director

Culture, Relationship, Product

athenahealth had some major issues with billing. The billing issues were really bad for a while....

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship

The vendor's support people are really variable in terms of the responses that they get. I can call...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

I would like to see better privacy options in the system for internal purposes when it comes to what...

Dec 2023
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Director

Relationship

I know that the vendor is working on some things, but sometimes, it can take them years to get those...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

athenahealth continues to innovate and improve the system, and that is wonderful for providers...

Dec 2023
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Director

Loyalty

There are some things coming up for the system that I am excited about. I believe that those things...

Dec 2023
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COO

Product

The order sets are a strength in athenaClinicals. The arrangement of the workflows and the line of...

Dec 2023
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COO

Product, Value

The billing tab workflows in athenaClinicals could be better for the providers. It can be a bit of a...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

I think athenaClinicals is really easy. I don’t see any other vendors' systems really fitting the...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals is like an iPhone that comes loaded, but we tend to have to add different apps. For...

Dec 2023
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Director

Product

There are things that should be happening now, and I don't believe the EMR companies understand...

Dec 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Value

Epic is moving in a direction with Nuance that is going to make a lot of doctors happy at the...

Dec 2023
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Director

Operations

Things have been going reasonably well with athenahealth. Their system has its shortfalls just like...

Nov 2023
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Director

Operations

The implementation of upgrades is probably one of athenahealth's biggest weaknesses. We have put a...

Nov 2023
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Director

Relationship, Product

athenahealth's focus has been on bolt-ons and partnerships in their network. We are using some of...

Nov 2023
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Director

Culture, Relationship

The main thing about athenahealth's support is that we have one designated account representative...

Nov 2023
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Director

Value

Functionality is probably athenahealth's greatest opportunity, and that influences whether they keep...

Nov 2023
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COO

Product

athenaClinicals is great on the clinical medical record side. I like athenaClinicals better than any...

Nov 2023
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COO

Relationship, Product

I have never worked in depth with an EMR like this before, but I can't imagine that the situation...

Nov 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

athenahealth doesn’t always charge for the products that they have, but if there is something they...

Nov 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

There haven’t been a lot of changes to athenaClinicals over the last few years. There were just...

Nov 2023
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Director

Loyalty

We went with athenaClinicals because with our previous product, we were 100% on premises. Every...

Oct 2023
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Director

Culture

athenahealth is obviously a huge company. The sales team doesn't entirely know what the onboarding...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product, Value

I would tell others we are very happy with an all-inclusive plan that is specific to our specialty....

Oct 2023
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CIO

Relationship, Product

athenahealth is very metrics-oriented, both on the user side and on the business side. They have put...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Product

athenaClinicals is very user friendly and easy to navigate. It is very logical. The steps align with...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Product

athenahealth falls short on some customized quality metrics. They tend to stay with more out-of-box...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Operations, Product

The vendor’s upgrades are very good. We know about them in advance, and the vendor’s communication,...

Oct 2023
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Director

Relationship, Operations

We hate when the vendor changes the system's look and feel. Providers don't like it when the vendor...

Oct 2023
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Director

Relationship

We can get support from athenahealth, but their response time depends on how big our problem is...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals is great with integrations. It is seamlessly integrated with our EHR, so we can pull...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Relationship, Product

athenahealth does a good job trying to interoperate with other vendors. They are in a niche place...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Product

I think athenahealth could look at a multispecialty, multioffice setup. The system currently has a...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Relationship, Product

We absolutely love the fact that athena provides back-end billing support and support for all the...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals is a nice system. It is stable, and it does what it is supposed to do with few...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product, Value

The vendor has come out with some really good things for athenaClinicals. The vendor has integrated...

Oct 2023
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Director

Product

We can make some changes in athenaClinicals, but with a web-based product, we are limited in some...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Loyalty, Product, Value

The product does not have an inpatient engine, so we can't buy it if we are trying to have a...

Oct 2023
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CIO

Culture, Value

athenahealth is good at not charging for every little thing, and they are up front if there is an...

Oct 2023
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COO

Product

A nice thing about athenaClinicals is that we are always using the most up-to-date software. The...

Oct 2023
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COO

Loyalty

athenahealth’s timelines around promises definitely become longer than what they originally tell us...

Oct 2023
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COO

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is such a multitiered system. If we call their help desk team, that is like...

Oct 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

Some of my doctors have mentioned that they don't like having to click from one thing to another to...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenaClinicals is very easy for our providers. They use a lot of the accelerators that athenahealth...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

One thing that we love about athenahealth is that we meet regularly with our customer success...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Value

From start to finish, athenahealth is invested because of the way their pay structure works. They...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth has a lot of layers. On a couple of occasions when we had some issues with documents...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

athenahealth's reporting tool is not robust enough. They have been working on that a lot. We have...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Relationship

I like athenahealth very much. They are focusing on our needs. Recently, we needed help with a...

Oct 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

athenaClinicals has worked well for our practices. It is the only solution out there that integrates...

Oct 2023
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Director

Operations, Product

athenaClinicals’ biggest strength was how efficient it was in terms of documentation and orders. The...

Oct 2023
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Director

Operations

athenahealth hasn’t changed the way they do ongoing training, but what they have done is make the...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

Our organization wants to do more, but athenahealth is not making enough progress for us to be able...

Oct 2023
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is really good. If there are deeper issues, we can call our product manager...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship

athenahealth has slowed down in terms of how big the updates have been and how big the changes have...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

In athenaClinicals, the system will recognize that the doctor has been using a certain set of...

Oct 2023
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Director

Loyalty, Product

I was talking with a colleague about athenaClinicals, and they were on another platform. They were...

Oct 2023
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Director

Culture, Relationship

athenahealth does not try to piecemeal things. They basically tell us what a package is and tell us...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

After new user training with athenaClinicals, every single person ends by asking whether that is it...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s agenda since they changed ownership has been divergent from our agenda to some...

Oct 2023
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Manager

Relationship

I'm a pretty high user of athenaClinicals, so by the time I reach out to athenahealth for help, I...

Oct 2023
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