A unique approach to the EMR that focuses on delivering results
You've heard it all - maybe you've even experienced it all: EMRs are expensive and hugely disruptive to office workflow, plus there's no guarantee that what works for one practice will work for another. Yet without an EMR, you risk so much, both clinically and financially.
athenaClinicals provides a truly different approach to EMRs, a wholly integrated solution for managing the processes of providing and getting paid for care. By applying the right combination of intuitive software, clinical and payer intelligence, and results-oriented services, so you can be confident that your practice is operating at peak performance.
athenaClinicals consistently delivers measurable, superior results:
What's more, athenaClinicals seamlessly integrates with athenahealth's innovative Web-based billing and practice management system for patient registration, scheduling, eligibility checking, claims processing, and reporting. The result is the industry's first truly consistent and reliable EMR solution.
Software simply isn't enough to achieve your goals. That's why athenaClinicals gives you all the features you'd expect in an EMR plus an intelligent rules engine and experts who are passionately committed to helping your practice achieve a predictable return on investment.
The first component of athenaClinicals is a state-of-the-art EMR, Web-based and fully hosted by athenahealth. Physicians can personalize athenaClinicals to reflect their distinct workflows while benefiting from an extensive list of EMR functions:
Next, athenaClinicals layers on a powerful rules engine containing clinical and payer requirements. This knowledgebase is updated daily, adding "intelligence" to your EMR and providing your practice with the most current:
Because these rules are embedded in your patient encounter documents, you get the right information at the right time to make sound decisions about patient care - and to help you focus on your patients rather than on rules.
The final piece of athenaClinicals is the results-oriented services offered by athenahealth experts, who are passionately committed to your success. You can offload labor-intensive, time-consuming administrative tasks to athenahealth and be assured of measurable, scalable, and consistent results.
Once athenahealth is in the picture, you'll experience an entirely new level of service, efficiency, and accuracy. Our virtual back office scans and categorizes every incoming fax, matches clinical documents to existing patients and patient orders, enters select data, routes information to the appropriate staff members, and stores documents where they can be readily accessed again. Scanned forms are entered into athenaNet®, resulting in coded, patient-centric data. Finally, athenahealth sends out (either electronically or via fax) reviewed and approved documents, renewals, and authorizations, relieving your staff of this activity. Paper congestion - the plague of every physician practice - is eliminated. And not only is the documentation process streamlined, but your practice gains the process control and follow-through that are critical elements of reducing professional liability.
With pay for performance an ever-louder rallying cry, athenahealth knows that you need information to optimize reimbursements under practice-specific P4P contracts and ensure compliance with best-practice guidelines. Unlike most EMR options, athenaClinicals seamlessly integrates clinical and billing cycle rules and workflows, which are continually updated. As a result, all areas of the practice can share information when it can actually affect decision-making. Using a clinically oriented dashboard, physicians can see overdue results and all outstanding tasks, and billing staff with appropriate access can see the clinical documentation that supports claim processing. However, reporting is an equally important - and often burdensome - component of quality management, and athenaClinicals makes this process both thorough and effortless. Intuitive reporting wizards give you visibility into how your practice measures up in terms of compliance with preventive guidelines, workflow lag times, and follow-through on clinical tasks. In addition, performance information can be readily shared with payers to support withhold and bonus discussions and contract negotiations.
"What used to take hours and sometimes weeks can now be done almost instantaneously."