Vendor profile

athenahealth
athenahealth is a cloud-based EHR, practice management, and revenue cycle platform for ambulatory healthcare providers. It is a general clinical EHR, not purpose-built for employer occupational health programs.
Category
Ambulatory EHR
Best for
Ambulatory practices needing a general-purpose cloud EHR.
Typical buyers
Multi-site provider groups, Occ health & urgent care clinics
Typical fit
Strengths
- ✓Cloud EHR with strong billing and RCM
- ✓Large connected provider network
- ✓Established practice management
Things to confirm
- !A general EHR, not occupational-health specific
- !Lacks employer portals and OH surveillance protocols
- !Some OH clinics use it with add-on workflows
Watch: athenahealth overview
A product overview published to athenahealth's own YouTube channel — a quick way to see the interface and positioning before you book a demo.
Read the full transcript
We're at this moment in healthcare and technology, where there’s this massive amount of innovation, intelligence being built. And the question is really, how can you bring that into your practice and take advantage of it? Partner with athenahealth Platform Services and bring your health care innovations to life.
When you join the athenahealth network and connect to our single instance multi-tenant platform, you'll have access to numerous connections from day one, including labs and imaging centers, CommonWell and Carequality, pharmacies, and so much more. You'll also be able to build, deliver, leverage, and scale the specialized user experiences you need to support your unique care delivery goals. Our library of over 750 APIs, spanning major clinical and administrative workflows, allows you to extend our core platform and create experiences specifically designed for your practice.
APIs allow third party applications to exchange data to create unique workflows, augment what’s happening in the workflow, or gain data to support their own workflows. This gives rise to a whole host of new capabilities because you can take advantage of a very specific part of the EHR and build an integration on top of it. Use our APIs to access and pull data out of our platform and leverage our data view service to extract data in bulk for your analytics and reporting needs.
But this isn't a one way street. Our APIs also enable you to embed external data, content, and apps into athenaOne, giving you greater control over your EHR experience. As a EHR company, we know we're not going to be able to power every workflow, have every solution, every capability.
But if we open up and allow others to build in what we do, we can collectively achieve different levels of performance that would not be possible from just our work alone. When you're in the market for plug-and-play technology, beyond athenahealth's comprehensive suite of services, you can access more than 350 ready-made partner applications in the athenahealth Marketplace, where it's easy to find, evaluate and deploy new functionality to your users. Here you're able to mix, match, and swap in the systems and applications you need to deliver an innovative experience and positive outcomes for your care teams and patients, as you grow and scale.
Finally, you can choose to partner with athenahealth Platform Services and tap plenty of expert help. Hire our experienced Platform team to serve as an extension of your own technical teams, helping you innovate faster and better. When we work with Platform customers, we're really conducting a co-roadmapping process that allows our clients to really unleash value at the top of what they're able to do, and not have to worry about basic administrative integration activities.
Whether you're building your own solutions activating third-party applications, or leveraging a combination of the two, athenahealth Platform Services is the best platform, and partner, for health care innovation. Talk with your athenahealth representative today.
Transcript of athenahealth's overview video, published on their official YouTube channel.
Where athenahealth fits
athenahealth is categorized as ambulatory ehr— a tool buyers often encounter while researching occupational health software, rather than a dedicated occupational health system. We track it for transparency and to map the full landscape, but it isn't scored on our capability matrix because that wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison.
If you're evaluating platforms that manage employee health records, medical surveillance, OSHA recordkeeping, and clinical workflows, start with the vendors we compare in depth.
Frequently asked questions
What is athenahealth?
athenahealth — Cloud EHR and practice management for providers.. athenahealth is a cloud-based EHR, practice management, and revenue cycle platform for ambulatory healthcare providers. It is a general clinical EHR, not purpose-built for employer occupational health programs.
Is athenahealth occupational health software?
athenahealth is categorized as ambulatory ehr. It's a tool buyers often encounter while evaluating occupational health software, but it solves an adjacent problem rather than serving as a dedicated occupational health system. For platforms scored on our full capability matrix, see the comparison grid.
Who is athenahealth best for?
athenahealth is best for ambulatory practices needing a general-purpose cloud ehr, and is most commonly used by Multi-site provider groups, Occ health & urgent care clinics teams.
Why is athenahealth listed here?
We track every tool that shows up in occupational health buying research — including ambulatory ehr — so buyers can see the full landscape in one place. athenahealth is listed for transparency; it isn't scored against dedicated occupational health platforms because that wouldn't be an apples-to-apples comparison.
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