athenaClinicals: Early ROI Data Looking Strong
You've heard the athenahealth promise: athenaClinicals is the world's first "clinical cycle management solution." And sure enough, early data show that our clients' return on investment (ROI) exceeds 100% on fax-related costs alone.
Last month, athenahealth handled a staggering 11,879 documents on behalf of three athenaClinicals clients (with a total of seven providers). That averages 77-100 documents per provider per day that we handled and processed - so providers and other staff only need to check the athenaClinicals 'inbox' to see all results, requests, prescriptions and other items organized for follow-up.
Now, athenahealth has completed a case study documenting exactly how much staff time this translates into. Once a practice is fully up and running with athenaClinicals, we project gross cost savings between $1,250 and $1,500 per month per physician on fax-related costs alone. And that doesn't include additional savings from eliminating chart pulls for patient visits and phone calls, coding improvements, elimination of pharmacy approval callbacks, or not having to handle other paper coming into the office.
What's more: athenaClinicals goes above and beyond other EMR systems by sorting and categorizing your records, lab results, orders, and other information so that you don't have to. You and your staff see the information you need, organized and ready for review and follow-up. This means that we save you and your staff time and money - about $500 monthly - that other EMRs can't.
What would you do with an extra $1,500 of staff time per physician each month in your practice? Spend more time with patients? Take home less work? Expand office hours? With no more faxes to handle, and a simplified workflow, the possibilities are endless.
So far, athenaClinicals has been optimized for Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN practices. In addition to clients already live with athenaClinicals, five Beta clients representing 30 providers have begun implementation of athenaClinicals. And our first OB/GYN practice has kicked off implementation with athenaClinicals this month.
If you'd like more information about athenaClinicals, please e-mail athenaclinicals@athenahealth.com.