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athenaIDX (Ambulatory) Commentary
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Eder Lagemann
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CIO

Relationship

athenaIDX has a good user interface. It is robust. It will grow with us as a group and is very...

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CIO

Relationship, Product

For athenaIDX, athenahealth has spent a lot of time building out the capabilities to let third...

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CIO

Relationship, Product

I'm positive on athenahealth, but the use cases are limited. And we are working with athenahealth...

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CIO

Product

I would not buy athenaIDX again. We are happy with athenaIDX as a standalone PM system. It serves...

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CIO

Product

At this time, athenahealth is still dipping their feet into AI opportunities, and that puts them...

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Director

Relationship, Product

The integration back into our main system for athenaIDX could use a little bit of work. athenaIDX is...

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Director

Value

While athenahealth is transparent and fair, they want an additional payment for every little thing....

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Director

Value

The solution doesn't cost as much as other options, but we don't get very much either.

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Director

Operations, Product

athenaIDX needs some kind of onboarding for new hires and standardized training that we could put...

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Director

Relationship

There is no appetite from athenahealth to make any changes to the solution. I have never heard...

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Manager

Culture, Relationship

I have support contacts at athenahealth. They provide day-to-day support. If I have tickets that are...

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Jan 2026

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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship

athenahealth is often a step ahead of me. If I mention that we may be looking at something, they...

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Jan 2026

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Manager

Relationship, Product

With athenaIDX, there always seems to be a solution. There is a lot we can do ourselves, including...

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Jan 2026

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Manager

Operations

athenahealth has a very robust training program, but we do not seem to need it. The trainers are...

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Jan 2026

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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenaIDX's flexibility is probably my favorite thing about the solution. athenaIDX allows us to...

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

athenahealth has strong industry relationships and a long track record. They have been in this...

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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenahealth supports customization through custom codes and custom configurations. We rely much...

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VP/Other Executive

Product

athenaIDX is a long-established system, and the underlying technology is what I would consider...

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Jan 2026

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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture, Relationship

athenahealth keeps their promises when it comes to the things they deliver. They give us what they...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

I wasn't there during the build process of the solution with athenahealth, so there are things that...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations, Product

We have users in different areas, so our system has to be able to function to meet all of the...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

Our EHR system is a homegrown system that isn't widely used. Because of that, there are issues with...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Operations

It takes a little bit longer for athenahealth’s support people to resolve some things. The triaging...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

If I were to make a choice to go with athenaIDX again, I would do our build differently. Our build...

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Dec 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

I see some future capabilities that athenahealth is working on, but there is a cost associated with...

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Dec 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

athenahealth has always been very responsive to our needs from a vendor perspective. They give us...

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Operations

We recently had some major migrations to a hosting platform, and we had our own challenges from a...

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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Operations, Product

The biggest thing that athenahealth could improve would be the ease of their upgrades so that we...

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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

We have an account manager who we can call, and they will usually respond to us within a day....

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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

From a product perspective, athenaIDX truly is one of the best in the industry in terms of...

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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Product

The primary benefits of using multiple solutions from our EHR vendor is that we have an integrated...

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Manager

Relationship, Product

In general, things are going well with athenahealth and the parts of the system that I manage. We...

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Manager

Culture, Value

We have some hours budgeted with athenahealth. In my interactions with athenahealth for what we...

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Manager

Operations

athenahealth has training in their portal. They also provide videos. We have never really had to...

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Nov 2025

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VP/Other Executive

Operations

I don't think athenahealth really takes a hands-on approach to training. They say that the training...

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VP/Other Executive

Value

athenahealth's system is a low-cost option, so it is a lot cheaper than Epic's system. For example,...

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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Relationship

There have been times when we haven't been able to make targets, but I don't know that I would...

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CIO

Value

athenaIDX is too darn expensive. There are things that I would expect to be covered under routine...

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CIO

Value

By using athenaIDX, we have reduced our A/R days on hold tremendously. The system has done an...

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Manager

Value

athenahealth tends to charge for every little thing. They are notorious for that. For example, if an...

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Manager

Operations, Product

When issues occur, they don't happen in a vacuum, especially with revenue cycle management, where...

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Manager

Product

At our organization, we have a few different systems along with athenaIDX, and that can be...

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Manager

Product

The athenaIDX platform is comprehensive and capable of delivering everything that we need while...

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Manager

Value

The specific, tangible benefit that our organization has realized from using multiple solutions from...

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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

I would definitely buy athenaIDX again if we needed an analytics solution.

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VP/Other Executive

Product

The most frustrating thing for the users is that when we are managing a patient in athenaIDX, we...

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Oct 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

athenaIDX could use a bit of updating here and there, but for the most part, it is good. The...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Product

I don't like athenaIDX's instances of downtime with the backup and shutdown of the system. The...

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Sep 2025

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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

athenahealth's support is wonderful. It is the best support that I have ever worked with in all my...

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