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VP/Other Executive

Operations, Product

When athenahealth updates athenaClinicals, we are not always excited about the updates. But other...

Nov 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Operations, Product

From the clinical and billing side of things, athenaClinicals is great. I have only used a few...

Nov 2025
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Manager

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When we are constantly trying to reach out to athenahealth, especially the web support, via opening...

Nov 2025
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Manager

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We have to contact athenahealth. There was an issue recently with the service and our computers...

Nov 2025
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Manager

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Our customer success person is very involved. If we ask them a question, they are very responsive.

Nov 2025
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Manager

Value

We are on an athenahealth system that was grandfathered in. So it is the basics of the basics. A lot...

Nov 2025
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Manager

Value

The system works the same as any EMR. If it is used appropriately, we get our money’s worth, and it...

Nov 2025
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

athenaClinicals still has room for growth when supporting organizations that are shifting toward...

Nov 2025
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Manager

Value

athenaClinicals has done a great job of providing strong value with many advanced features. Compared...

Nov 2025
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth is hands-on and offers a lot of assistance. We have a really good customer account...

Nov 2025
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Manager

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We use some third-party solutions instead of ones from athenahealth for certain services because the...

Nov 2025
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Manager

Product

The athenaClinicals' strengths include its intuitive design and ease of use. It is a user-friendly...

Nov 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

Product

athenaClinicals has its quirks, but overall, it functions well. Its biggest strength is the ease of...

Oct 2025
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Director

Relationship

There is a lack of knowledge in athenahealth’s customer support when we need things to be a certain...

Oct 2025
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Director

Operations

athenahealth has a really cool training area we can go to and send staff members to if they need...

Oct 2025
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Director

Product

athenahealth could look at improving their actual reporting in athenaClinicals to be a little more...

Oct 2025
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Director

Product

athenahealth has a lot of work to do on their patient portal. We get a lot of patient complaints on...

Oct 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

athenaClinicals is the first EMR I have worked with that I never get complaints from my providers...

Oct 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Operations

Upgrades are managed by athenahealth. They send out PowerPoints and videos to help train staff...

Oct 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Value

We moved from multiple systems to athenahealth's product several years ago, and it has simplified...

Oct 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Product

We use a third-party telehealth platform because we weren't satisfied with athenahealth's platform....

Oct 2025
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

athenahealth has a self-serve API process that makes connecting to other systems fairly easy.

Oct 2025
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COO

Loyalty

Barring any significant issues, I think we will be on athenaClinicals for a while. It is too...

Oct 2025
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COO

Loyalty

athenahealth has a bit of AI with authorizations, but they are leveraging their own team to provide...

Oct 2025
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COO

Relationship

We recognize that athenahealth is a large entity supporting competing priorities, but we have been...

Oct 2025
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COO

Value

athenaClinicals helps us with MIPS and various things, but it is still incredibly expensive.

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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Manager

Relationship, Product

I think athenahealth keeps promises. Some development timelines have gotten sidelined a little, but...

Oct 2025
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Manager

Relationship, Product

I would like to see a little more customization. I understand the system can't be fully...

Oct 2025
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is very inconsistent. Sometimes we can get great support from them. Other...

Oct 2025
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Manager

Product

I would say I like the intuitiveness of athenaClinicals, at least on the clinical side. In the...

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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Director

Loyalty, Product

athenahealth is in a precarious place because we are not like a typical doctor's office, and we...

Sep 2025
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Director

Operations

When we implemented the system, the training was there, and people came on-site. But with any...

Sep 2025
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Director

Product

The athenahealth EHR is a little tricky for users. Sometimes the issue is not necessarily the...

Sep 2025
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Director

Product

We have had a lot of issues and roadblocks with athenahealth's EHR because we are trying 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

Relationship

We have a customer satisfaction manager who is pretty good at looking into things when we report...

Sep 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

athenahealth does do updates in a timely manner, and as far as I'm aware, they keep their...

Sep 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

athenahealth's support is awful. A lot of the time, when we report a problem, the support people...

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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Manager

Product, Value

The benefit of using multiple solutions from athenahealth is that we can keep our quality measures...

Aug 2025
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Manager

Loyalty

I am not looking for a new EHR. I can't even imagine doing that. We would never leave athenahealth's...

Aug 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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Manager

Operations

I love athenahealth's upgrades. athenahealth does regular upgrades, and we always see new features...

Aug 2025
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

athenahealth is working on the system's ambient notes. I would like to see more developments with...

Aug 2025
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals is pretty insightful and easier than our last product in terms of navigating around....

Aug 2025
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth has specific coaching groups and teams that we can sign up for. As we go through...

Aug 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship

With athenahealth, we can see the vision. athenahealth may say something coming in six months, and...

Aug 2025
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Director

Culture, Value

With athenahealth, we aren't charged for every little thing, and anytime we want a new interface,...

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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Director

Product, Value

Providers love the ease of use of athenaClinicals. A tangible benefit we have seen from using the...

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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Manager

Product

athenaClinicals is very user friendly, and it is very easy to get in touch with the vendor's support...

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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Manager

Operations, Product

I do all the new user training, and our new users are able to adapt to the system very easily. By...

Aug 2025
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Manager

Relationship

I am extremely dissatisfied with athenahealth's support. This used to be a real strength of theirs....

Aug 2025
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Manager

Relationship, Product

athenahealth is very good about keeping the system functional and handling possible security...

Aug 2025
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Manager

Relationship, Value

I wish my satisfaction with athenahealth could be better in 12 months, but I think it will still be...

Aug 2025
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Director

Value

athenahealth’s solutions are very expensive. Anytime there are technology-enabled healthcare...

Jul 2025
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Director

Product

athenaClinicals can be integrated, but we have to build out different APIs for different solutions...

Jul 2025
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Director

Product

Specifically in the ambulatory environment, I think athenahealth does a great job at what they do....

Jul 2025
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Director

Operations

A lot of our team gets trained by the athenahealth team, and then those people from our organization...

Jul 2025
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Director

Product

The con of having multiple solutions with athenahealth is that if their system goes offline, all of...

Jul 2025
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Director

Relationship

I would like to see athenahealth continue to improve athenaClinicals and always keep the user...

Jul 2025
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Director

Value

There are definitely some pros to streamlining and going with one vendor for multiple solutions. One...

Jul 2025
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CIO

Product

We would like to see athenahealth improve the check-in process, which stands out as something that...

Jul 2025
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CIO

Product

I like the stability and reliability of athenahealth’s products. The upgrades are thought through...

Jul 2025
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CIO

Operations

Our go-live with athenaClinicals was about as smooth as possible for an EHR. The biggest reason was...

Jul 2025
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CIO

Value

One tangible benefit our organization has realized by using multiple solutions from athenahealth has...

Jul 2025
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CIO

Loyalty

We chose the system because of its full suite of capabilities, including athenaCollector,...

Jul 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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Product

athenaClinicals is easy to navigate, and it is easy to enter notes, orders, and lab results in it....

Jun 2025
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Manager

Operations, Product

The solution is user-friendly. If someone has used an EHR before, they are able to navigate and...

Jun 2025
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Manager

Product

Sometimes, when it comes to reporting and building out certain fields, we aren't readily able to do...

Jun 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

I have done a lot with reporting over the years, and athenahealth’s reporting is somewhat difficult...

Jun 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Loyalty

athenaClinicals is more user-friendly for the providers and staff compared to what we had before,...

Jun 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

We have been somewhat happy with athenahealth. They do try to work hard to keep us happy. When there...

Jun 2025
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Manager

Relationship, Product

Some of the changes or upgrades to the solution are a little slow to happen. I receive emails from...

Jun 2025
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Manager

Relationship

For the most part, we receive good customer service. We usually get really timely customer service...

Jun 2025
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Manager

Product

We have multiple solutions from the vendor, and it is just nice that everything is in one spot. We...

Jun 2025
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Manager

Product

I would buy the product again because it is all I know. It is kind of all we have ever used. I mean,...

Jun 2025
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Physician

Operations, Product

Overall, I find athenahealth's system to be the most pleasant EMR I have worked with, and I have...

Jun 2025
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Physician

Value

When we first partnered with athenahealth, there was a low-cost option available that suited small...

Jun 2025
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Physician

Value

I previously suggested athenahealth to colleagues who had independent practices; however, it appears...

Jun 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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Director

Relationship

I think athenahealth is forward-thinking. athenaClinicals drives outcomes pretty well. With the...

Jun 2025
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Director

Culture, Value

athenahealth does offer some of the services we are using a third-party for, but they don't offer...

Jun 2025
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Director

Culture, Relationship

athenahealth does not keep promises when it comes to their efforts with FQHCs. Years ago, they told...

Jun 2025
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Director

Loyalty, Product

An improvement I would suggest to athenahealth is to reduce the effort on the provider's part....

Jun 2025
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Director

Product, Value

From my perspective, one of the biggest benefits we have seen from athenaClinicals is that it is a...

Jun 2025
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Director

Relationship

We aren't happy with athenahealth outsourcing their support to offshore resources. Their support...

Jun 2025
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Director

Value

athenahealth recently increased the price that we are paying. The price was originally contracted as...

Jun 2025
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Director

Product

We would like to see tighter integration between athenaClinicals and some hardware. There seem to be...

Jun 2025
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Director

Value

athenahealth hasn't charged us for a few enhancements recently, and that has been great. If they...

Jun 2025
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Director

Operations

athenahealth does provide good training. They do one-to-one training, and they offer it to every...

Jun 2025
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Director

Product

The advantage we have found using multiple functions from athenaClinicals is the integration between...

Jun 2025
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COO

Loyalty, Product

We looked at other solutions. However, even with its flaws, athenaClinicals is still better than...

Jun 2025
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COO

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

There are a lot of clicks in athenaClinicals for no good reason. That could be improved. I...

Jun 2025
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COO

Product

One improvement athenahealth could make would be to recognize that the clinical note is the billing...

Jun 2025
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COO

Product

athenaClinicals biggest strength is that it has the flexibility to allow clinicians to use different...

Jun 2025
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COO

Product

Having multiple products from athenahealth is an advantage, but that is because athenaClinicals...

Jun 2025
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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

athenahealth’s solutions are strongly used in outpatient practices. For the most part,...

May 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...

May 2025
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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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Manager

Product

One of the benefits of using multiple solutions from athenahealth is the ease of use because it just...

Apr 2025
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth could improve their training by assigning individual resources more specifically to...

Apr 2025
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Manager

Relationship, Operations, Product

athenahealth could improve by providing more customization specific to our practice. It is sometimes...

Apr 2025
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

athenaClinicals is missing functionality on the dental and behavioral health sides. I would like to...

Apr 2025
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s support people have gotten better through the years, thankfully. Calling...

Apr 2025
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Director

Relationship

I have not had any exposure to the athenahealth executives for several years. I know I can call and...

Apr 2025
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Director

Product, Value

I know we are using the solution below the level we could be. There are updates every quarter, but...

Apr 2025
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Director

Product

We have been happy with athenahealth for the most part. It is a work in progress, but from what I...

Apr 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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Manager

Operations

athenahealth's implementations lack a a long-term perspective. I understand why athenahealth does...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Relationship

I love my athenahealth representative. I think the CSM support is something athenahealth does very...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Relationship

We utilize a single sign-on program in our organization, and athenahealth doesn’t understand single...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth’s support is inconsistent, and there are days when it is pretty bad. Sometimes I have...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Product

Most of our users like the workflow in the athenahealth system, especially the providers. I like...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Loyalty

We transitioned to the athenahealth EHR, and it was the main option we looked at because we are an...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship, Operations

athenahealth absolutely gives us insights into the product's future. There are frequent webinars...

Jan 2025
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Manager

Operations

I think the implementation went okay overall. We did our best. athenahealth sent a lot of staff down...

Jan 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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COO

Relationship, Product

The consistency in the updates that athenahealth releases with value-added functionality is helpful...

Dec 2024
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COO

Loyalty, Product

The thing that athenahealth needs to work on moving forward would be working to minimize the need to...

Dec 2024
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COO

Loyalty, Relationship

If we were in the market for an EHR and PM platform, it is hard to say who would be our number-one...

Dec 2024
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Physician

Culture

I would tell someone starting with athenahealth that they have to negotiate the price with the...

Dec 2024
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Physician

Product

I really like athenaClinicals. It is fast, simple, and easy to build, and we can find all the codes...

Dec 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Value

Every area of athenahealth's product is okay to integrate with. All EHRs are alike in that they are...

Dec 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Value

We are not totally thrilled with the amount that we are paying for athenahealth's system, and we...

Dec 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

The vendor's support people answer within about 24 hours, so that is pretty good.

Dec 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Relationship

There is a place for athenahealth. We have some really skilled folks, and we took over clinics that...

Dec 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Loyalty, Product

athenaClinicals works in a pretty straightforward way because it is the same solution we had before....

Dec 2024
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Director

Relationship, Product

There are some things that we would like to modify in athenaClinicals that have to be agreed upon by...

Dec 2024
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Director

Relationship

I interact with athenahealth at the same level as most other users. Other vendors have a slight edge...

Dec 2024
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Director

Culture, Value

Upgrades for athenaClinicals are quite seamless. athenahealth basically charges us based on a...

Dec 2024
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Director

Product

I would pick athenahealth's system over other EMRs. I still like athenaClinicals a lot after several...

Dec 2024
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Director

Product

On the clinical side, the experience for providers is excellent. We have a lot of flexibility in...

Dec 2024
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Director

Relationship

As an organization that has been on athenaClinicals for a long time, we have a team of people who...

Dec 2024
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Director

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenahealth has really picked up on innovation and development in the last few years, and they are...

Dec 2024
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Director

Relationship, Product

Behavioral health support is an area that I know athenahealth is really working on, but it still...

Dec 2024
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CIO

Value

athenahealth used to give us free APIs, but now they want to charge for them, and that is nickel-and-diming....

Dec 2024
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