"athenaNet makes sense, from the moment you schedule the patient appointment to the moment you receive your reimbursement check. It has improved our workflow, productivity, and days in AR tremendously."
Loreen Zaccaro, Administrator
Cardiology P.C.
Hartford, CT
 How can athenaClinicals transform your practice? In this issue, we bring you the success story of one practice just weeks after installing this ground-breaking tool. We're also happy to announce new and improved scheduling functionality in athenaNet, and our first column in Physician Practice Magazine. And Live Benchmarking is here! For all this and more, read on.
In December, Dr. Eugene Constantinou's internal medicine practice was the first to go live with the Alpha Version of athenaClinicals. This month, learn how athenaClinicals is already translating into streamlined patient care (and more free time on weekends) here.
We are excited to officially launch athena's Live Benchmarking Program. If you've been live on athenaNet for over 90 days, you have seen this in action - and many of you live by this daily. Learn more about this tool and all the fabulous prizes to be awarded here.
We are excited to announce a new-and-improved user interface and scheduling functionality, released for Beta testing in the latest version of athenaNet. Click here for details.
As those of you who attended the User Conference know, we regularly collect and review a vast amount of data on best (and worst) practices in practice management. This month, Physicians Practice Magazine kicks off a year-long collaboration with athena to bring that data and our insights into practice management to over 300,000 readers in a new column called Practice Management Lab. Click here to read it.
Because of athena's powerful rules engine, denials only represent about 10% of all claims. When a claim is denied, here are the top ten reasons (shown for Collector clients). We believe that greater detail on eligibility transactions with payors has a significant impact on the top two items. And Senior Vice President of Business Development Nancy Brown is on a mission to improve eligibility relations with senior management in the payor community.
In addition to our partnership with Physician Practice Magazine, we've undertaken another initiative to convert our knowledge about best practices into active healthcare reform. Click here to read about athena's first Institute.
He's athenahealth's resident jazz musician, a Dunkin Donuts regular, and Director of Marketing. Meet Rob Halpern, this month's featured athenista. And click here for archived athenista profiles.
We're pleased to announce that athenahealth earned the number one ranking in KLAS Enterprises' "Top 20: 2005 Report Card" in three categories in the ambulatory billing and scheduling for practices of 1-5 physicians, 6-25 physicians and 26-100 physicians. Read the full story here.
Want to learn more about athenahealth? We will have a booth from February 12th - 16th at the San Diego Convention Center for the HIMSS Annual Conference. We would love to see you there – please visit us at booth # 5751 and booth # 7213. .
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