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Service and Support
The vendor doesn’t make enough of the changes that we need. They are constantly making changes, and...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product is user friendly. It is easy to follow the flow of the practice. It is easy to create...
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Functionality and Upgrades
One of the big problems with the product is that the billing tab for a visit is inside the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
There are very few things that we can customize in the system for ourselves. Everything is canned,...
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Functionality and Upgrades
athenaPractice PM is pretty straightforward and provides our billing team with ticket lists that our...
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Functionality and Upgrades
athenahealth has to do a lot of work with custom scripting. For example, when we send codes from the...
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Service and Support
The vendor has been having posting issues for more than a year, and we have been a victim of those...
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Other Observations & Comments
Our CSM doesn't have a lot of pull, unfortunately, and they seem to be struggling right now. They...
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Service and Support
There are staffing issues on the billing side of athenahealth. Because of our workflow, we have a...
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Service and Support
The vendor is setting things up and modeling them to get the claims out faster and have accurate...
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Lessons Learned
I would recommend the product to a facility that wasn’t a critical access facility. If a facility...
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Interfacing and Integration
Working with athenaPractice PM is incredibly difficult. We have provider-based billing practices...
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Technology
We asked the vendor for a certain thing in the system, and they promised to include it, but they...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The basic underlying structure of athenaPractice PM is based on having on-premises servers....
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Functionality and Upgrades
The system's document-management process is a complete catastrophe. Information comes in partially...
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Implementation and Training
The training that we received from athenahealth was all remote, and our people didn't learn anything...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Our providers like and appreciate athenaPractice PM.
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Future Outlook
athenahealth has some really good updates that are coming out next year, like the ability to send...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product has too many clicks and too much mouse travel across the screen; the functions require...
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Relationship
athenahealth had some issues recently, so things haven't been perfect. I have appreciated that the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
athenahealth still has some opportunities, but overall, things work. In general, the product is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product's biggest deficit is document management, and that includes incoming documents from...
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Interfacing and Integration
athenahealth does a good job of finding other services, setting up relationships, and having...
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Relationship
For the most part, athenahealth keeps their promises. They are getting better at not charging for...
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Functionality and Upgrades
We only use athenaPractice PM for part of what it offers because we work with another vendor that...
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Service and Support
athenahealth has great customer support, and they absolutely keep all their promises. They have...
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Service and Support
We do occasionally have to ask for our problems to be escalated to a manager, but athenahealth...
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Service and Support
I would tell a friend that the product is a typical EMR. It does all the things that someone would...
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Functionality and Upgrades
athenaPractice PM is just a typical practice management system. One thing that I wish were different...
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Relationship
There is some room for improvement around the PM rollout plan, but athenahealth looks out for us by...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The scheduling component of athenaPractice PM is older and antiquated, and athenahealth doesn't seem...
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Relationship
I like the manager that we have contact with at athenahealth. That person is very in tune with us,...
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Future Outlook
Our ability to receive our money’s worth is improving. We pay a lot for the product, but we don't...
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Service and Support
athenahealth has been fine in terms of support. The people involved in the online ticket and support...
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ROI / Cost
The reporting seems to work for us on the athenaPractice PM side. We use a lot of different...
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Relationship
athenahealth's upgrades are very seamless. athenahealth is very regimented about rolling out their...
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Service and Support
athenahealth has a pretty good setup, but we have to get through the level-one support people first....
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Relationship
We have a very good, interesting relationship with athenahealth. We have recurring meetings with our...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The product has very good interfacing capabilities and is intuitive. We couldn't be happier with the...
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ROI / Cost
If I were talking to a peer about the product, I would tell them about its cost effectiveness. The...
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Relationship
When we went through COVID-19, there were new codes added through Medicare. athenahealth set up...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Since the upgrades, our billing department has had some struggles with the solution. There are some...
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Lessons Learned
I don't know whether I would buy athenaPractice PM again. It would be really hard to say whether it...
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ROI / Cost
athenahealth can offer a lot of great things, but those all have separate costs. We use a lot of...
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Implementation and Training
athenahealth has computer-based training modules that are available for people to watch. It would be...
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Functionality and Upgrades
athenaPractice PM is okay and works mostly as intended, but there are a few quirky things that cause...
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Interfacing and Integration
athenaPractice PM integrates with our other vendors' systems very well and pulls out the information...
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Service and Support
athenahealth is fairly responsive to tickets that we put in their portal. They try to let us know...
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Service and Support
It sometimes takes a while for athenahealth to get our tickets resolved. Our billing staff is...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The things that the vendor promotes as being time saving and efficient don't always work out that...
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Relationship
athenahealth isn't selling athenaPractice PM anymore. They keep telling us that they not going...
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Functionality and Upgrades
The system's practice management reports are lacking. It is hard for us to get reports from the...
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Functionality and Upgrades
Sometimes the updates don't seem to do what the vendor says the updates will do, or the updates work...
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Implementation and Training
The vendor does actually pretty well with training. I am not really that familiar with their...
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Functionality and Upgrades
On the EPCS side of things, we have a lot of problems. The workflow just is not easy to follow.
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Functionality and Upgrades
On the practice management side, the UI could really be overhauled. The UI just looks old, and it is...
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Relationship
The vendor sometimes delays things, but they keep their promises. They just might not keep those...
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Service and Support
The vendor's support people are great when we call them. They work really hard to change things and...
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Functionality and Upgrades
It would be nice if the product had an easier enrollment and credentialing process. Unless someone...
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Service and Support
I would love to see the vendor's customer support people be more knowledgeable when it comes to the...
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Service and Support
In the beginning, things were chaotic. We had a lot of disconnect with the vendor, and we didn't...
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Functionality and Upgrades
I like the vendor's vision for athenaPractice PM. The system is user friendly. The patient's quick...
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Functionality and Upgrades
It would be nice if the vendor would update some of their fields to be more keyboard friendly...
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