athenahealth EHR Software

athenahealth ehr software is a leading provider of cloud-based and on-premise healthcare solutions for medical groups and health systems nationwide. Their vision is to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all, and they pursue this through their medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, and care coordination offerings.

With modern technology on an open and connected ecosystem backed by expert service and support teams, athenahealth ehr software enables customers to yield meaningful insights that make a difference for their customers.

athenahealth's product offerings include:

athenaOne: a cloud-based solution that integrates clinical, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement capabilities, expert services, and support, to optimize clinical and financial outcomes, and reduce administrative burden.

athenaClinicals®: a network-enabled EHR that organizes the moment of care to help providers maximize clinical productivity and spend more time with patients.

athenaCollector®: network-enabled revenue cycle technology and expert services that offer full visibility into financial performance while eliminating burdensome administrative revenue cycle tasks to help collect more, faster. 

athenaCommunicator®: a network-enabled patient experience solution that strengthens the relationship between medical practices and patients to improve engagement and health management outside of the doctor's office.

Population Health: a network-enabled technology solution that helps achieve quality goals for value-based reimbursement models while reducing total medical expenses.

Health Plan Data Exchange: a cloud-based data exchange service for health plans looking to gain access to their members' clinical data and improve quality initiatives such as HEDIS, CMS Stars ratings, and risk adjustment programs.

Platform Services: expert services that connect proprietary and third-party applications to tailored health IT systems with differentiated clinical and patient user experiences.

Epocrates: The #1 medical reference app providing clinical decision support and drug interaction content for providers at the point of care.

athenaIDX™: a dual on-premises or cloud-hosted enterprise revenue cycle management solution that helps health systems, hospitals, and billing services get paid faster with less work and at a lower cost.

Combined Business Office (CBO): A single revenue cycle solution that enables hospitals and large physician groups to improve efficiency, reduce redundancy, and optimize revenue capture enterprise-wide.

Billing and Accounts Receivable (BAR): A billing and receivables system that lets large physician groups and billing services effectively manage financial data, obtain maximum revenue collection, and improve productivity.

Risk Manager (FRM): A highly customizable, provider-focused solution helps organizations efficiently manage risk and control costs associated with managing patient populations across a health system.

Enterprise-Wide Scheduling (EWS): Our robust appointment management capabilities help you coordinate and schedule appointment times, providers, resources, and locations throughout the enterprise.

athenaEDI ™: an integrated clearinghouse solution managing all electronic information between the payer and the provider to ensure efficient reimbursement operations via proactive monitoring and revenue cycle expertise. Integrates with athenaIDX, athenaIDX™ for Group Management, and athenaPractice™.

athenahealth pricing: athenahealth does not publish pricing on its website. To get a customized quote for athena EMR or other products, request pricing, or get a demo.

Free trial: No

CEHRT: 2015

Technical Specification: athenahealth offers a cloud-based EHR and medical billing solution as well as an enterprise revenue cycle management solution that can be cloud-hosted or on-premise.

athenahealth EMR pros: 

• - athena EHR offers integration to several 3rd party applications through its Market Place. 
• - Their practice management solution is offered at a low price. 
• - athena EMR and patient portal have one of the cleanest and easy to navigate user interfaces. 
• - athena can be a one-stop-shop for medium to large-sized practices looking for a single vendor to meet all their needs. 

athenahealth EMR cons:

• - Current users have raised concerns about athenahealth's billing practices. If you are an athena medical billing client all your earnings will go into an account held by athena before being reimbursed to you. Some practices find this policy intrusive. 
• - It is not one of the less costly options in the market especially for smaller practices that do not need all the bells and whistles that athena EHR has to offer.