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Product Basics

Analyst Rating

80 Detailed Analysis

User Sentiment

Good User Sentiment (953 Reviews)

Analyst Rating

79 Detailed Analysis

User Sentiment

Great User Sentiment (1148 Reviews)
athenahealth is a cloud-based clinical and financial solution for healthcare practices and organizations. It combines software services to alleviate administrative burdens and improve clinical efficiencies. Streamlined physician workflows promote a focus on patient-centric care.

It incorporates engagement tools, such as telehealth services, patient portals and online scheduling to improve patient satisfaction.
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EpicCare is an ambulatory solution which allows physicians to chronicle a patient’s healthcare over time. Health organizations all over the world use it to manage a handful of their daily operations, from appointment scheduling to billing and payment. It's got modules for just about every need. From clinical trials to a mobile application to analytics, it goes above and beyond portable medical records.

Healthcare facilities using it have noticed improvements in their physicians’ efficiency and productivity as well as an increase in overall revenue. In turn, practices are able to increase their daily traffic without compromising the quality of patient treatment. Clinicians especially will notice an increase in workflow efficiency.
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  • Adaptability: Cloud-based deployment allows real-time updates to keep physicians compliant with industry and regulatory changes. Provide remote care in an increasingly digital world using telehealth functionality. 
  • Mobile Accessibility: Access schedules, manage inboxes, send prescriptions and more from anywhere using an iOS mobile app. 
  • Increase Operational Efficiency: Access clinical information from multiple sources instantly, saving time and providing the most accurate treatment. 
  • RCM: Leverage RCM services to reduce time spent on administrative tasks, such as obtaining prior authorizations, rectifying claim errors and managing denials. 
  • Focus on Patients: Improve clinician and staff morale while freeing up more time for patient-centric care by automating busy-work tasks. 
  • Interoperability: Securely exchange medical information across healthcare organizations. Directly connect to labs, imaging centers, pharmacies, public health registries and more to locate patient records and incorporate them in workflows using CommonWell and Carequality integration. 
  • Patient Engagement: Communicate with patients at scale to deliver campaign information and notifications. Patients can exchange messages with physicians, view lab results, request prescription refills and more using mobile devices. Patients can receive automated reminders and notifications regarding appointments, billing and follow-up care. 
  • Online Scheduling: Allow patients to schedule appointments online. Configure functionality to meet practice needs, drive patient satisfaction and limit manual scheduling tasks for front desk staff. 
  • Healthcare Regulations: Automatically monitor changes to federal quality programs so business owners don’t have to. Stay one step ahead of changing healthcare regulations like MACRA and MIPS. 
  • Return on Investment: Increase health organizations’ revenue in the long run. Receive monetary government incentives simply by implementing solutions designed to demonstrate meaningful use for qualified facilities. 
  • Fewer No-Shows: Reduce no-shows and increase daily traffic by providing patients with tools to manage appointments and check in online prior to visits. 
  • Billing/Claims Management: Improves higher first-pass resolution rates by scrubbing insurance claims to detect errors prior to submission. 
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  • Fewer Errors: In the past, medical information had to be documented, by hand, on paper. This form of documentation was prone to handwriting and legibility errors, which could eventually lead to a patient receiving improper treatment. Recording patient information electronically reduces the amount of human mistakes and assures unambiguous patient information.
  • More Accurate Treatment: With EpicCare EMR, physicians are able to access a patient’s entire medical history at their fingertips. With fewer documentation errors, more accurate diagnosis and treatment can be provided the first time around. Additionally, health analytics provided by the EMR can help recognize health patterns and recommend appropriate treatment.
  • Clinical Support: Epic provides screens, workflows, specialty applications, predictive analytics, and embedded decision support tools to support clinical practice. It also facilitates the recruitment of study participants for independent research and allows users to incorporate their findings into clinical care.
  • Patient Experience: Patients can use EpicCare EMR to schedule appointments, pre-register, communicate with their physicians and more. Patients and doctors are able to collaborate on custom/personalized treatment plans to help monitor and track their health.
  • Mobility: Both patients and physicians are able to access EpicCare EMR using their phone, tablet or even Apple watch. Patients can schedule appointments and receive notifications while physicians are able to monitor a patient’s treatment remotely
  • Security of Information: By storing medical information electronically rather than physically, you can rest assured that sensitive documents are secure. EpicCare EMR allows for multiple levels of access, making it so that only those who need a patient's information are allowed access. Health facilities no longer run the risk of losing medical documents due to misplacement, tampering, theft or destruction.
  • Care Management: Epic facilitates users to manage their health insurance operations. Claims can be processed and submitted automatically, and its utilization management tool helps users to make informed, financially responsible decisions with regards to a patient’s care. It provides a secure web portal for providers to interact with care information and tools to proactively identify high-risk patients, manage correspondence with members, vendors, and employers in one integrated database. It also provides customer relationship management and manages correspondence with members, vendors and employers in one integrated database.
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  • Connected Health Network: Physicians can offer better care by leveraging data and insights from over 160,000 providers and 100 million patients. Lets users exchange information with over a quarter of a million points of care, such as specialists, urgent care facilities, labs, pharmacies and more. 
  • Patient Engagement: Optimize the number of patients seen each day with appointment scheduling. Limit the number of no-shows while improving patient satisfaction with automated reminders and online patient check-in. 
  • Patient Portal: Let patients view medical histories, sign documents, pay bills, manage appointments and more using mobile devices. Physicians can communicate with patients through messaging, notes or even video calls. 
  • Authorization Management: Outsource researching requirements and contacting payers for medical authorizations. View authorization statuses directly from in-app clinical workflows. 
  • Care Coordination: Access and share data, track orders, send results and more. Keep sensitive information secure and share data in real time. 
  • Reporting: Access detailed, real-time reports based on other clinics’ activity to help establish benchmarks, recognize patterns and issue more accurate treatment and diagnosis. 
  • Population Health: Physicians can stay connected to vital patient population data with population health tools. Utilize automated outreach services and network-based knowledge from in-house analysis experts. 
  • Interoperability: Connect to more than 26,000 health plans, 12,000 lab and imaging endpoints, 95% of US pharmacies and more than 1,200 external sites. Integrate with CommonWell and Carequality, to gain access to Epic and Cerner sites, along with numerous local, state and national Health Information Exchanges. 
  • Marketplace: Extend capabilities with access to apps in a dedicated marketplace with developer support. 
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  • MyChart Patient Portal: EpicCare’s patient module, MyChart, enables patients to access their personal and family health information on their mobile devices. They can also exchange messages with physicians, set appointments, complete questionnaires, and attend e-visits. Patients in hospitals can also use MyChart Bedside to look at their schedule, request a physician’s help, exchange messages, complete questionnaires and access individualized treatment plans. MyChart also facilitates online scheduling for prospective patients to become new patients.
  • Analytics: Epic allows people close to the patient to investigate their hunches across populations and build dashboards. It also allows users to combine different sources of clinical, operational, and financial data into a single data warehouse. It enables users to distribute and curate their analytics content on a web portal.
  • Telehealth: With EpicCare EMR’s telehealth feature, physicians are able to monitor patients and provide treatment remotely. With dozens of tools, telehealth handles ICU monitoring, chronic disease management, telecardiology, peer-to-peer consultations and video visits with patients, even those in prison. It can also be used for rural primary care, teledermatology, telecardiology, telepsych, telestroke, teleradiology, tele-emergency, genetic consults, abuse evaluations, interpretations, ICU monitoring, remote ICU, chronic disease management, case management and discharge planning. It can also be used for central deterioration monitoring remote intensivist coverage, second opinion services, patient transport, video visits, telerounding, school nurse consults, employer consultations, prison video visits, postsurgical follow-ups, virtual hospitals, financial counseling, and virtual urgent care.
  • Managed Care: You can manage nearly all your health insurance operations through EpicCare. Claims can be processed and submitted automatically, while it’s utilization management tool helps to make informed, financially responsible decisions in regards to a patient’s care.
  • Revenue Cycle Management: EpicCare’s RCM feature lets your health organization maximize revenue while protecting payments. Patients can create payment plans and even consolidate all of their balances into a single payment, streamlining billing and payment processes.
  • Interoperability: Interoperability allows a patient’s medical information to be shared with any health organization that meets standards, regardless of the EMR/EHR they use. Epic exchanges more patients charts for care than any other vendor — for reference, over 100 thousand patient records were exchanged in April of 2019 alone.
  • Community Health Portal: It facilitates users to keep community providers and caregivers informed with an integrated portal that updates them about their patients, submit referrals, order labs and imaging, close care gaps, schedule visits and more.
  • Specialties and Ancillaries: Epic provides modules for cardiology, dental, dermatology, endoscopy, ENT, fertility, genomics, home health, lab, long-term care, nephrology, obstetrics, oncology, ophthalmology, ortho, radiology, rehab, rheumatology, transplant, wound care and urgent care.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Epic provides machine learning algorithms embedded at the point of care. It also supports the deployment of independent artificial intelligence models using its cloud-based platform.
  • Epic Share: Epic allows users to extend their system to independent practices, hospitals, and post-acute facilities with the ability to keep billing and scheduling separate.
  • Compliance: Epic allows users to position their organization with tools for Meaningful Use (MU), Promoting Interoperability (PI), Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and other regulatory programs such as HIPAA.
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User Sentiment Summary

Good User Sentiment 953 reviews
Great User Sentiment 1148 reviews
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athenaOne has a 'good' User Satisfaction Rating of 76% when considering 953 user reviews from 4 recognized software review sites.

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EpicCare has a 'great' User Satisfaction Rating of 85% when considering 1148 user reviews from 4 recognized software review sites.

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Awards

SelectHub research analysts have evaluated athenaOne and concluded it earns best-in-class honors for Integration and Extensibility.

Integration and Extensibility Award

SelectHub research analysts have evaluated EpicCare and concluded it earns best-in-class honors for Electronic Prescriptions and Platform Security and Compliance.

Electronic Prescriptions Award
Platform Security and Compliance Award

Synopsis of User Ratings and Reviews

Customer Support: Users who struggled with implementation received adequate support, and all users have access to effective support at all times, as noted by almost 90% of reviews.
Functionality: Athena provides medical practices with all of the functionality that they need, as noted by slightly more than 75% of reviews.
User Interface: The user interface is intuitive and easy to use, as noted by 75% of reviews.
System Downtime: Of the users who discussed the solution’s accessibility, 60% noted that they had not experienced any significant system downtime and felt that they were always able to access functionalities when they wanted to.
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Functionality: The platform offers robust functionality, allowing users to automate and streamline almost any task imaginable, as noted by slightly more than 80% of reviews.
Shortcuts: Users can create their own shortcuts to help them access common functions with ease. This capability was mentioned as a benefit by 55% of reviewers who mention shortcuts.
Communication: Of the reviews that mention the system’s popularity, 85% enjoyed that the solution enabled care providers at different practices to access and make changes to patient data. This level of inter-practice communication was touted as a major benefit that helps improve patient care.
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Claims: While the claims scrubbing feature was praised by users, nearly 70% of reviewers felt that this feature noted that the language used for claims is difficult to interpret, clearing claims can be challenging and users felt that they did not receive satisfactory support when they reached out for help in regards to this feature.
Cost: Though only mentioned by approximately 10% of reviewers, the high price of the system was a detriment of the platform, as reported by 80% of users who discuss price in their review.
Accuracy: Some reviewers noted that they had difficulty entering or searching for their data within the platform as well as found inconsistencies within their records, as reported by 60% of users who mentioned Athena’s accuracy.
Suggestions: Users can make suggestions about changes they’d like to see within the system on a community forum, however, nearly 70% of reviewers who mention this capability felt that the suggestions of larger companies were unfairly prioritized over the suggestions of everyone else.
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User Interface: Of those that mention the interface, 65% of reviews note that the system is difficult to use. Many of the features are difficult to find and require multiple clicks to access, while the shortcut option is difficult to set up according to many users.
Customer Support: Of the reviews that mention customer support, more than 60% were dissatisfied with their experience, stating that customer service lacked the knowledge to provide proper support, was difficult to get ahold of and when customers did speak to support, they found that the support technicians were rude.
Customization: Slightly more than 60% of reviews that discuss customization stated that customization options were limited. The available customizations were reviewed to be time-consuming and difficult to implement.
System Downtime: While only around 10% of reviewers mention system downtime, 100% of those reviews point to internet connectivity issues and system downtime as a major detriment of the system that directly impacts productivity.
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Athena offers robust functionalities that streamline many daily tasks for care providers. Many users felt that the system offered all of the functionalities they were looking for and felt that the interface was easy to navigate and did not experience system downtime. Users also felt that customer support was able to address most of their concerns at a satisfactory level. However, some users felt that the claims functionality was unsatisfactory and recognized that the system couldn’t make their desired customizations. Users also noticed inaccuracies in their data, but many were unable to determine if this was a result of the system storing information incorrectly or the result of users experiencing difficulty navigating the platform. The high price of this system may be cost prohibitive as this system is best suited for smaller practices that won’t need to provide multiple care providers with access to the system.

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Many users love the robust functionality offered by EpicCare and find that the shortcut options allow them to navigate the system with ease. It also provides greater transparency into patient data, allowing care providers at separate facilities to access patient records with ease. However, the system’s expansive capabilities are overwhelming for many users, and a significant number of users struggled to use shortcuts correctly. The majority of reviewers commented that the system is difficult to navigate, experiences frequent downtime, offers minimal support and comes at a prohibitively high cost. Despite the negative tone of many reviews, nearly 100% of reviewers noted that they would recommend this system to a colleague, recognizing EpicCare as a leader in the EHR software space.

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