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CEO/President

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The customer success representative I have had for most of my time with athenahealth has moved to a...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

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athenahealth is known as being one of the most expensive EHR vendors, but what they provide me is...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Product

athenahealth's system brings a lot of capabilities, but we would like it to be less glitchy. We...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Value

I have actually gotten rid of all secondary third-party solutions because as athenahealth has grown...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Relationship

I suspect that athenahealth thought they could save money by changing the way their customer support...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

The customer service has changed in athenahealth, but that is it. I have been more than impressed...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

I like using computers, so I find using athenaClinicals to be really easy, but some of my staff...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

With athenahealth’s customer support, I used to be able to send a message through the portal, and...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

athenahealth is working on trying to improve the self-check-in functionality. They are doing all the...

Apr 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

athenahealth’s customer support team has lost their focus on the idea that their job is to make it...

Apr 2024
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Director

Relationship

athenahealth could improve their support. They used to have good support, but things have gone...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations, Product

The system is pretty good. It has relatively intuitive workflows and a user-friendly interface. From...

Apr 2024
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Director

Operations, Product

My biggest concern about the solution is the document and inbox management. That could be improved...

Apr 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product, Value

I don't know what the system's cost is on the billing side, but we aren't able to use the system's...

Apr 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Operations

Sometimes, the way athenahealth rolls out implementation services is a little muddy. The vendor is...

Apr 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Loyalty, Value

We will hang on to athenahealth's system. It is a good tool for us. I actually like the system. I...

Apr 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

I actually like the system. It is pretty intuitive compared to other EHRs that I have seen....

Apr 2024
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Manager

Operations

We really do not use athenahealth’s training because it is not very helpful to our staff. They just...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Value

I wouldn't say athenahealth is avoiding charging for every little thing. It seems like when the...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Culture

We had an issue come up with athenahealth regarding our contract. Professionally, it was not handled...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship

With the vendor’s executive involvement, I have come across some people that do great and some that...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Operations

The original implementation was done pretty well; however, the implementation time frame for new...

Mar 2024
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Manager

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The customer service representative that I work with regularly does great. Anytime I email them,...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Product

athenahealth's system has its pros and cons. On the clinical side, I hear a lot more of the cons...

Mar 2024
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Loyalty, Product

I would tell others looking at athenahealth's system that it is great. It has a lot of...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship

The structure of athenahealth was that I had one person that I would call, and they helped me with...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Culture, Value

athenahealth has recently raised their rates for some reason. We have no idea why. They raised the...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Loyalty

To be honest, we may not have athenahealth EHR/PM at all in the near future because of our own...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth's system is not easy. Lots of clicks are involved. There are lots of places to go. I...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth's system isn't bad. But athenahealth doesn't have in place what they used to when we...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

There is always something going on as far as athenahealth goes. They are making a lot of changes in...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Relationship

The system looks very easy when athenahealth presents it. The product looks very user friendly, and...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Value

The vendor provides a lot; however every additional thing we need is an added cost. Nothing is...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Product

We have very little downtime. Most EHR that I have worked with might be down for a day or sometimes...

Mar 2024
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Physician

Loyalty, Relationship, Operations

One of the things that attracted us to athenahealth was that they have a program whereby providers...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Product

The clinical side of the product is really user friendly. We just follow the prompts, and everything...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

Clinically, athenahealth is perfect. However, my issues with them lie with the filling in of names...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

athenahealth updates the product all the time. They keep it current, and it is constantly updated.

Mar 2024
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Manager

Relationship

If we have any issues, it is usually pretty easy to get someone on the phone within a few minutes...

Mar 2024
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Manager

Operations, Product

I like the way the athenahealth system works. It is easy. I don't always like it when the vendor...

Mar 2024
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CEO/President

Product

Every specialty has a tweak, but athenahealth's system is flexible enough that our end users can...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Value

The charges that we have seen over the past number of years have become a little more à la carte and...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship, Product

athenahealth cannot produce a document that shows me where they got the number of orders we had...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Value

athenahealth is a growing organization, so they have cost increases too, and they have to get...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

I have a dedicated person for the revenue cycle management of the product. They get everything that...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Product

There is a lot of opportunity out there if people take the time to look at the system and tune their...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

I have never had a problem with athenahealth’s support team. We can get support online. We get a...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Culture, Value

athenahealth is not cheap, but it is a no-brainer to see the value that we get. It is something we...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

I don't think anybody has this, but I really want a product that allows me to compile patients'...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Operations, Product, Value

I have been very involved in researching multiple vendors. athenahealth goes above and beyond in...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship, Operations

Within reason, athenahealth absolutely keeps all promises. The vendor has an amazing product...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Product

I can get a new staff member up and running very quickly with athenahealth’s resources and teaching...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Product

We are struggling a bit with getting the appropriate outside records and trying to interface with...

Feb 2024
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CEO/President

Value

The vendor provides us with a really good EHR and a really good practice management system, but...

Feb 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Product

I love athenahealth's system. We have had it forever. I love how intuitive it is, so it is easy to...

Feb 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

athenahealth doesn't reach out to us much, but the support team is easy to get in contact with. When...

Feb 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

I have few issues with athenahealth, and they are minuscule. The only negative part is I don't like...

Feb 2024
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship

I have an account representative at athenahealth, but that changes at the drop of a hat. I can never...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Value

athenahealth’s model of increasing the price is starting to scare me. Recently, they sent a letter...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

I love athenahealth's system, and I love the technology. It works. It does what it needs to do, and...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product, Value

The vendor is working hard on adding more bells and whistles, but I don't know whether the bells and...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Operations

athenahealth has excellent one-on-one training. But if we need anything other than one-on-one...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

athenahealth's system interfaces with a few of our other programs and vendors' systems, but there...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Relationship

When we call the support team, we get somebody who usually tells us to do all the things we know how...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

We would like to have athenahealth offer chronic care management functionality. The solution is...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product

The one reason I like athenahealth's product so much is that it is very user friendly. Previously,...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship

My old CSM left, so I'm now dealing with a new one, but so far, they have been good. They have some...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship

We are happy with athenahealth. I like the direct support that we get from them. We have an account...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product

The system is very user friendly, and the vendor does a good job with RCM and billing processes.

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship

When we have a problem and we contact the vendor's support people, we often get ahold of someone who...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Operations, Product

athenahealth sends out updates all the time, and they do interfaces for free. We have interfaces for...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth schedules recurring meetings with us, so we can always get their feedback. We are...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Culture, Product

We have had a few issues with the system. We tried to get an interface to work to get a provider's...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Loyalty

Something that athenahealth offers that we are looking at for the future is a patient...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Loyalty

We are looking at Epic’s system because another facility we know uses that system, and it would be...

Feb 2024
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CFO

Operations

New users have a hard time in the system. The training videos for it aren't great. I have found the...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Product, Value

In the athenahealth product, the appointment system should be better for patients to make their own...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth has people available to take calls, but they are people from overseas who sometimes...

Feb 2024
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Manager

Culture, Value

athenahealth doesn’t have a monthly fee for the services; things are based on claims. If a practice...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

Another solution has good functionality that is similar to what athenahealth has. The downside of...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Relationship, Value

athenahealth needs to improve on some of the things that they already have. athenahealth is still...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

From a reliability perspective, the solution has been rock solid. The system rarely goes down. Every...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

There are a number of things that athenahealth could do to improve the solution. There are so many...

Feb 2024
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Physician

Product

The administrative and billing portions are good. I am not thrilled with the clinical portion....

Jan 2024
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Physician

Culture, Relationship

The vendor could be a little more friendly. The people I talk to at athenahealth are usually...

Jan 2024
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Physician

Operations

athenahealth usually refers us to videos for training, and the videos are sometimes difficult. We...

Jan 2024
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Physician

Product

athenaClinicals can integrate. I can download information from other EHRs, but sometimes there is a...

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Product

Things are pretty good with athena's telehealth tool. For the most part, it is not very glitchy....

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Relationship

athena is undergoing some changes with their support team. They are doing a big overhaul in how they...

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Culture, Relationship

The vendor could improve the product by making the coding more accurate. The vendor also needs to...

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty

If I were on the market looking for a core solution vendor, I would choose athena. We did a pretty...

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

One thing I like about the EHR is that it is much more reliable than the other EHR systems I have...

Jan 2024
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CEO/President

Product

athena's reporting functions could be more user friendly, but the reporting has also been helpful....

Jan 2024
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Manager

Product, Value

Something frustrating is that when we enter a patient case and the provider responds, the case just...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Product, Value

Since we have been using athenahealth's system, our intake process seems a whole lot easier. It is...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Product

The system's patient portal access is pretty good, but patients have a hard time resetting their...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

From a clinical standpoint, the product is quite user friendly and makes good sense for workflow...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

When the product works, it works well. The vendor does routine updates, and every time they do an...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship

I have regular meetings with an athenahealth customer service manager, and they are great. They go...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

athenahealth's system has a self-check-in functionality, and the vendor is currently in the process...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Product

Overall, we have been pretty happy with athenahealth's system and the capabilities that it has. It...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Culture, Value

athenahealth routinely upgrades our products for free, but if there is a new capability, such as a...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

athenahealth does a good job of sharing all the information about what is coming in upgrades, and...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship

As athenahealth has outsourced their support, things have gotten difficult. When I call in, I...

Jan 2024
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

The vendor has some AI capability for when I'm searching for something within the product. That part...

Jan 2024
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Physician

Product

athenahealth’s EHR updates itself, so it is always on the current version. The EHR also just flows...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

The athenahealth system is a great product when it comes to quality measures in terms of keeping...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Product

athenahealth EHR/PM is easy to use, and everything we need is in the system. There are not too many...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Operations

Training for athenahealth's system involves going online. Sometimes when we have a question, we go...

Jan 2024
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Manager

Relationship, Product

I want to be able to call athenahealth and tell them what is happening, but I have to put in a case....

Dec 2023
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CEO/President

Product, Value

The flexibility that the product gives me to develop clinical protocols is great. I can develop...

Dec 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship

athenahealth always assigns individual customer relations people to their customers. I have had some...

Dec 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship

athenahealth has a policy that every so often, they change their customer relations people. I think...

Dec 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship

athenahealth is very supportive when it comes to quality matters, MIPS, and those sorts of things...

Dec 2023
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CEO/President

Product, Value

I have been extremely satisfied with athenahealth's EHR. The product has allowed me to put my...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth's biggest downfall is the training; it lacks implementation and upgrade information. I...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product

athenahealth's system is robust. It offers some pretty great reporting with little building of the...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product

The vendor's actual EHR is phenomenal. It hits all the points that we need to see for medications,...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Relationship, Operations

The biggest thing that would hold me back is if we had office staff who didn't really delve in and...

Dec 2023
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Manager

Product

The new upgrades and updates have basically scrubbed the billing process to a pretty good detail....

Dec 2023
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CFO

Relationship

athenahealth's people are always there to answer the phone. The vendor's case management interface...

Dec 2023
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CFO

Operations, Product

athenahealth rolled out the new claims part of their revenue cycle upgrade. They released a lot of...

Dec 2023
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CFO

Product

We would tell our friends or peers who were looking at athenahealth EHR that it is an integrated EMR...

Dec 2023
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CFO

Product

We would like patients to be able to see their payments through the system’s portal. That is...

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Operations

athenahealth's training either doesn't align with their releases or aligns too closely. The vendor...

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CFO

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We have had a big struggle with coding and its inaccuracies. On the system's billing side, we have...

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Director

Relationship

It is very difficult to get our point across to athenahealth so that they can even understand what...

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Director

Operations, Product

The system is pretty user friendly, not only for staff use but also patient use. We have a patient...

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Director

Loyalty, Relationship

With athenahealth, we are worried about some upcoming changes that they are making with some practices....

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Manager

Culture, Value

athenahealth promised the world and then didn't deliver. Later, they came in and offered to do a...

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Manager

Product

We have a lot of interfaces with athenahealth's product. There is a lot of room for mess-ups with...

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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth used to have a better customer service center. It used to be that no matter what area a...

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Manager

Product, Value

I used to be able to put an iPad at the front desk for patients to sign everything, so there was no...

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Manager

Operations, Product

athenahealth did a billing and registration update this summer that they should have done in the...

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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth has too much involvement. I don’t want them bothering me when I am working in...

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Manager

Relationship

I like that we have an account manager we can speak to. Even though their hands are tied with some...

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Manager

Relationship

I have been with athenahealth for many years and have promoted them in many places. In the...

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Manager

Operations

The vendor has ongoing seminars or training sessions that we can participate in. It is up to us...

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Manager

Relationship

I don't always like athenahealth’s upgrades, but the vendor is good at keeping things current. The...

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Manager

Relationship

In terms of the vendor’s support, it used to be the case that we could just pick up the phone and...

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Manager

Relationship

The vendor gives us a client person. We can send an email or call someone if we are not getting...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Culture, Value

The pricing is reasonable for what we get. It would be a nightmare if we had to bring everything...

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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship, Product

A lot of outside resources will integrate with the product. No system is going to be 100% perfect,...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship

athenahealth calls us regularly. We schedule regular meetings, and we interrupt those all the time...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Value

The system is not cheap, but I don’t have anything to judge that on; I haven’t been out there...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Product

I can operate the system from anywhere. Years ago, we had an issue where our office was technically...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Product

There are some improvements I would like to see in the system, but I know the vendor is working on...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Operations, Product

There are regular updates to the system. We get a heads-up on those updates and see what is coming,...

Sep 2023
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Physician

Loyalty, Value

I am considering changing to a different EHR partly because of cost. athenahealth is unfairly...

Sep 2023
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Physician

Operations

My go-live process was well supported, and the initial training was fine. I have not received much...

Sep 2023
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Physician

Relationship

I can reach out to my customer service manager, who is actually pretty good right now. They are...

Sep 2023
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Physician

Product

My complaint is that even though I am very familiar with the platform and it moves as quickly as it...

Sep 2023
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Physician

Product

athenahealth's platform can be a little too complicated, whether from a billing or a documentation...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

The process of setting up the system and its interface was hard.

Sep 2023
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Manager

Relationship

athenahealth keeps changing the person who is dedicated to our account. When we try to make an...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Product

athenahealth has a great billing system. Everything lines up when we put in codes, so instead of...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Product

athenahealth is doing some strange things when they deny claims. When they deny claims and ask for...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Value

athenahealth is in it for the money. They are a public company, so they have to bring their...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Loyalty, Relationship

Revenue cycle management is so much better with athenahealth's product than with other EMRs. A small...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Loyalty, Product

There are so many parts to the clinical side of athena. They have made improvements to their...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Product

athena's app is made for any sized practice, and that is golden. The product is for any practice...

Sep 2023
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Manager

Value

athenahealth does not take the quality money that we get, so we get our money’s worth. If we get...

Sep 2023
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Director

Relationship, Operations

I don't feel like the people at athenahealth are trained well enough, and that is why they end up...

Sep 2023
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Director

Operations

athenahealth focuses so much on following the modules and learning how to do certain things. But...

Sep 2023
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Director

Product

We utilize a lot of the order sets and stuff we can do with athenahealth to really customize...

Sep 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship

What I don’t like about athenahealth is on any service call, their support team will try to say an...

Aug 2023
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CEO/President

Relationship, Product

My satisfaction with athenahealth used to be higher, but recently, that satisfaction has dropped...

Aug 2023
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CEO/President

Loyalty, Value

We are always looking for a way to switch from athenahealth's solution if possible. There are still...

Aug 2023
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CEO/President

Culture, Loyalty

Some of the features in athenahealth's system do not work as promoted. athenahealth recently offered...

Aug 2023
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CEO/President

Product

athenahealth's system is easy to use. However, there are always concerns that the system is not...

Aug 2023
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COO

Value

In our practice, it is crucial that we collect on every dollar that is owed to us because we have to...

Jul 2023
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COO

Product

Compared to other products, athenahealth EHR probably has the most robust data set and ease of use...

Jul 2023
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COO

Product

Authorization management is a challenge with any product. No one has gotten it right. athenahealth...

Jul 2023
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COO

Loyalty, Product

athenahealth hasn't done much with the collector part of their user interface for years, but...

Jul 2023
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COO

Value

In our practice, it is crucial that we collect on every dollar that is owed to us because we have to...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Value

We don't need an IT department to run the system because the system uses a web interface. That is a...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

athenahealth has a system in place so that if we find shortcomings in the software, we can make...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

The vendor's training is excellent. They have online and in-person training. That training is...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship, Product

One issue that we have had with the product is multi-language support. athenahealth partners with...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Relationship

The vendor's support staff members are really good. They go out of their way to help us every time...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Culture

athenahealth told us that they were going to offer a way to interface with the system, but when I...

Jul 2023
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Analyst/Coordinator

Operations

athenahealth's upgrades are excellent because they are transparent. The vendor does them during off...

Jul 2023
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Physician

Product

I would love one box where I could put a personal note to remind myself of something. Lots of other...

Jul 2023
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Physician

Product

On the clinical side, I have no issues with the product. I have access to things outside of our...

Jul 2023
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

There is one thing that I want. I am never going to give the overall product quality a perfect score...

Jul 2023
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Manager

Product

The system allows me to see issues that a patient is having and respond and correct the issue....

Jul 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

I always struggle with the reports from athenahealth. There are so many reports, and that is great....

Jun 2023
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Manager

Operations, Product

For onboarding, the solution is effective if we know how to make changes and updates to the system....

Jun 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Culture, Value

We purchased the basic product, and we get charged for each component piece that we add. Nothing...

Jun 2023
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VP/Other Executive

Relationship, Product

The communication between athenahealth and our IT department is less than ideal. Whenever we get an...

Jun 2023
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CFO

Relationship

We had a recent experience with athenahealth where the vendor just wasn't doing root-cause analyses;...

Jun 2023
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COO

Product

I like that the solution is integrated and can deal with the complexity of healthcare insurance.

May 2023
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COO

Product

The product can’t report outcomes right now. For example, when a patient comes in wanting to get...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

If we want something changed, we have to submit the change to a suggestion box, and then if other...

May 2023
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Physician

Value

Portal billing is a developing requirement that we use because the payers keep dinking us year after...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

The interoperability with our primary system needs help. The state health exchange needs help. We...

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship, Product

athenahealth tried to adapt to win payers by changing collection policies. On the back end, they are...

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship

The account managers from athenahealth keep flipping every few months. We don’t tend to have regular...

May 2023
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Physician

Operations, Product

athenahealth's system is very intuitive and relatively easy to use. It has a lot of power. There are...

May 2023
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Physician

Value

We certainly pay for athenaCollector, but athenahealth does a nice job of scrubbing the codes that...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

athenaCommunicator is reasonable, but we still get patients all the time that get put in the wrong...

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship

athenahealth has very good web support. Whenever we need anything, it is easy to get support from...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

I like the athenahealth EHR. It is user friendly and helps me run my practice with the fewest number...

May 2023
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Physician

Culture, Product

In athenahealth's EHR, the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. For example, when I...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

With some parts of athenahealth's EHR, getting information from other locations is simple; we just...

May 2023
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Physician

Culture, Value

Considering what we signed the contract for, athenahealth does not charge for every little thing....

May 2023
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Physician

Operations

We don’t really hear from athenahealth about training now that the EHR is implemented. Right now,...

May 2023
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Physician

Product, Value

athenahealth's EHR is one of the better evils that we have to deal with, but there are some big...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

athenahealth's EHR seems to have not changed much in terms of technology. There have been some...

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship

A lot of times, we can't understand athenahealth’s support team if we actually call in, and then if...

May 2023
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Physician

Value

The amount of money that athenahealth takes is really hard for us because of our organization’s...

May 2023
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Physician

Loyalty, Product

The clinical aspect of the product is stellar. There is no EMR on earth that is better. I have...

May 2023
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Physician

Product

In the EMR itself, we can move an order just by dragging it up or down, and then the system learns....

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship, Operations, Product, Value

One outcome that we have seen from using the system has been with the amount of time that it takes...

May 2023
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Physician

Culture, Value

One thing that makes athenahealth stand out is their prices that incorporate necessary upgrades....

May 2023
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Physician

Relationship

The vendor's support people are very available. At one point, we needed to create some reports, so...

May 2023
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Manager

Relationship

My main issue with the product is the claims side. For the last while, the vendor has not followed...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

We are pretty pleased with athenahealth's product. We like how user friendly it is. The product is...

May 2023
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Manager

Loyalty

We are firing athenahealth from our organization, although I wish we didn't have to. They weren't...

May 2023
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Manager

Product

athenahealth’s EHR is flawless, and so is the process for scheduling and setting up the patient's...

May 2023
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Manager

Value

Billing, posting payments, and working denials with athenahealth is a catastrophe. athenahealth's...

May 2023
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Manager

Operations

We trained ourselves on athenahealth’s system. They offer training, but it is remote training or...

May 2023
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Manager

Operations

athenahealth could improve their training by providing a person that actually does the training....

May 2023
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