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Eder Lagemann
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Manager

athenaCollector is a perfectly great product. There's nothing at all wrong with it. It works really...

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Manager

athenahealth produces a good amount of training materials, like videos and learning management...

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Manager

Most of athenahealth’s customer base is doing billing and claims as a service. It is billed as a...

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Director

I'd like to see athenahealth add more AI features before claims go out, especially for checking...

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Director

athenahealth does really well at training, but a lot of the training is outdated compared to the...

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Director

What Epic's system has that athenaCollector doesn't is better money management. I live in the...

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Director

I put in tickets with athenahealth all the time. One example was that certain claims were submitted...

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Director

athenaCollector is continually evolving, and I like that. It's such a large product that...

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Director

athenaCollector is meeting our needs. There are enhancements we'd all like to see, but we've had to...

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Director

The athenaCollector payment posting is atrocious. The users don't balance to a daily charge amount....

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Director

athenahealth has a good vision. I'd like to see them achieve it. I think they're working really hard...

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Director

athenaCollector is still not solving all of our problems. It is pretty easy for people to use. It's...

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Director

From a cost perspective, athenaCollector is competitive.

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Director

I'd like to see athenahealth improve some of the functionality of athenaCollector, like some of the...

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Director

A lot of the training our providers receive comes from our internal team. Most of our team has been...

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VP/Other Executive

"Road map" is a dirty term at our organization at this point because athenahealth has beautiful,...

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VP/Other Executive

athenaCollector is feeling a little long in the tooth some days, but it is fine. We can still tell...

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VP/Other Executive

athenaCollector definitely utilizes the co-source model, which is where athenahealth manages...

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Manager

athenahealth does a really nice job with training. If I didn't have to do anything on my own to...

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Manager

When I call athenahealth's support people, I usually already have an idea of the direction they need...

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Manager

athenaCollector is user friendly, and the vendor is always making changes based on industry...

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Manager

One of the benefits of athenaCollector is that we can configure settings so that text messages and...

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VP/Other Executive

athenahealth charges us an awful lot of money, and I still have an awful lot of FTEs. If the vendor...

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VP/Other Executive

athenahealth is way too late to the AI game, and they're not putting enough resources into it. The...

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VP/Other Executive

Support is an ongoing problem with athenahealth. As an example, they come on-site and do in-depth...

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VP/Other Executive

There's a lot that needs to be fixed in athenaCollector. They sell their solution and talk it up as...

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VP/Other Executive

athenahealth does training videos, which are really great. But as a user who has been on the system...

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COO

Everything is a little more expensive, but especially in the FQHC market. FQHCs are typically on a...

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COO

Regarding athenahealth's long-term plans, I'm excited about how they've redeveloped the platform...

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COO

We looked at other vendors a few years ago when athenahealth was struggling to figure out how to...

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COO

athenahealth's long-term strategy of thinking like a payer has been the biggest benefit from working...

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Director

athenahealth could do better at training. They focus strongly on the clinical area. Their training...

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VP/Other Executive

When we contact athenahealth, we get somebody offshore on the first and second lines of support. The...

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VP/Other Executive

I would not choose athenaCollector again. The issue is the back end. What we do with the solution is...

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VP/Other Executive

The markets with smaller populations are vastly underserved in athenahealth's model. athenahealth's...

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Manager

athenahealth has a prompt turnaround time. They will address situations in a timely manner and come...

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Manager

athenahealth’s support team is usually pretty quick, but sometimes the responses they give are not...

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Manager

There are pieces of athenaCollector that don’t work quite how I would like them to. Those workflow...

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CIO

We are very engaged with athenahealth, all the way to the CEO level.

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CIO

When an organization uses multiple offerings from athenahealth, there is a consolidation of various...

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Director

athenahealth has continued developing athena Collector. They stalled out for a while, but now they...

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Director

From our revenue cycle team members' perspective, athenahealth is already developing some of their...

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Director

We use a third-party solution for electronic billing statements because athenaCollector’s...

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Director

athenahealth doesn't quickly meet requests for changes to athenaCollector. It is not that things are...

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VP/Other Executive

We have our athenahealth customer success manager, and they are a great asset. We meet with them...

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Manager

athenaCollector's reporting is very robust, so for our revenue cycle management piece, we get a lot...

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Manager

athenahealth’s customer service is good. Anytime I call with a ticket, the agents work with me and...

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Manager

A lot of things with athenaCollector are self-taught, but in the last upgrade, the vendor held more...

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Manager

athenaCollector does our payment posting, and they don't always review the EOB and put things into...

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Manager

I like athenaCollector's efficiency, especially in payment posting and cash flow. The system helps...

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Manager

athenahealth has a lot of add-on services, but I don’t think the prices are unfair or too high....

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Manager

The specific and tangible benefits our organization has seen from using multiple athenahealth...

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Manager

athenahealth provides extensive written education with their upgrades, and the training overall is...

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Director

athenahealth has done a good job with us with their insights dashboard. It provides us with some...

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Director

athenaCollector is a little more complicated, and it isn't as easy to use as the EHR. Sometimes we...

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Director

athenahealth’s support people have good intentions, but they don’t always solve the problem; they...

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Director

I would like to have a better view of the claim, regardless of where it is in the process. In other...

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Director

I would stay with athenahealth because most other sites in our organization have solutions from...

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Manager

We are looking at EHRs that fit our business goals and at what will be the most efficient for our...

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Manager

We always have issues with the vendor's support. That seems to be a big pain point for us at times...

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Manager

We seem to be doing well with athenaCollector. athenahealth has definitely made some improvements....

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Manager

The benefit of using multiple solutions from one vendor is that things are within the platform if...

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VP/Other Executive

The frontline support is poor. We have to regularly have our representative escalate tickets and...

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Director

athenahealth does regular upgrades, and with a recent upgrade, they didn’t do enough testing, and...

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Director

We have regular calls with our athenahealth representative, and we present all our gripes to them....

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Director

athenahealth has a very good onboarding process with good training, but I wish it were more...

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Director

athenahealth occasionally comes up with unexpected costs for different integrations that they have....

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Director

By using multiple solutions from athenahealth, our organization can be more consistent throughout...

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Physician

athenahealth is always working on future things, and that is nice. They have already implemented...

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Analyst/Coordinator

A lot of times, when we report a problem, athenahealth will generally announce that there is an...

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Analyst/Coordinator

Some things in the solution don't work quite as promised, and we have to scramble on our side to...

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Analyst/Coordinator

athenahealth is still not quite where they could be. The vendor isn't great at resolving concerns in...

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Manager

There is no additional ongoing training for athenaCollector. With athenahealth, it is hard to get in...

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Analyst/Coordinator

When we use multiple athenahealth products, we like that everything is integrated and works together...

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Analyst/Coordinator

I definitely haven't heard any negative comments about athenaCollector. athenahealth really tries to...

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Analyst/Coordinator

There is always room for improvement with athenaCollector's functionality. There are certain things...

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Director

athenaCollector integrates well with external sources.

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Director

We have access to everyone at athenahealth, from support staff to the president. If someone needs to...

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Director

athenaCollector works for both new and experienced staff members. It guides users by pointing out...

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Director

athenaCollector does payment posting poorly. I would focus on what other companies offer for payment...

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Director

athenaCollector rolled out a new page last year. I find it too busy and not organized in a way that...

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Director

athenaCollector’s training relies on modules. They give us the basics, but we figure out the tricks...

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Director

The functionality within athenaCollector is impressive. athenaCollector’s custom rules engine is...

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Director

athenahealth does good releases, and they provide information ahead of time. If we have questions,...

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Director

If the industry could pick up the payers' claim numbers, that would be very helpful. I spend weeks...

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Director

When we got athenaCollector, it seemed complete, but there were many gaps. Some things drop into...

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CMIO

We have seen value come back from athenaCollector in our ability to scale it. When we went live on...

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CMIO

athenahealth's road map looks good. athenahealth is just starting to use some AI to reduce burdens...

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CMIO

athenaCollector is integrated. The main benefit of using it is that we can use the same system to...

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Manager

We have had some interesting times with athenahealth. At one point, an implementation we did with...

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Manager

Coming from our previous system many years ago, athenahealth's products are a one-stop shop. We used...

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CEO/President

Unfortunately, athenaCollector is in our long-term plans. On a day-to-day basis, the software is...

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CEO/President

We have been working with virtual credit cards for years now, and the vendor was supposed to be able...

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CEO/President

athenahealth did really well with handling the Change Healthcare crisis because a lot of other...

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CEO/President

The implementation with athenahealth was hard. The vendor just doesn't have any support right now....

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CEO/President

athenahealth does well with integration. We have several comanagement agreements, and we have to do...

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CEO/President

In terms of whether I would recommend athenahealth, I would tell others the pros and cons. I would...

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CEO/President

One plus about athenahealth is that we are not getting nickel-and-dimed. athenaCollector is very...

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Manager

athenaCollector has a lot of AI things already embedded into it. We use the system's ambient AI...

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Manager

One thing athenahealth does really well is that when they make an update, they provide both images...

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Manager

The benefit to using one EHR vendor for everything is continuity. Trying to keep everything in...

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Manager

We would buy athenaCollector again. It works seamlessly with our clinical product. We can use our...

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