athenaClinicals vs. Brightree

Works well for family med and peds primary care. Would not be well suited to wound healing/hyperbaric medicine practice in current configuration as the specific documentation requirements of wound management and hyperbaric treatments don't mesh well with the layout and forms that I observed.

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Billing and tracking customer's medial DME items. Not used for any other field but medical.

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• Quality programs - able to see what measures are outstanding for the patient
• Reporting - able to report on multiple financial reports as well as clinical information
• Standardization of clinical information - the system forces users within the same specialty to use the same templates (as a starting point), therefore it is easier to standardize protocols and treatments of care

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• Customer Support: never an issue, fast and responsive
• User-Friendly: no issues training staff to use the software
• Increased billing efficiency: easy to use and understand

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• The schedule needs to be improved. You should be able to see the schedule in a day, a week , in a month view and be able to schedule directly from the schedule.
• It's difficult to name items because they are traditionally corrected very quickly

• Can sometimes be slow as its a cloud service.
• They recently updated their website and continue to improve, this was not the case over a year ago. So keep growing and filling more of the billing and medical needs.

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Overall the system is good. Actually, this was supposed to be the universal EMR when it came out during the Bush administration.

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They are always there. Friendly and organized.

Support for this product has been good from Brightree for users and the technical side. They do clearly explain what they can and can not do and sometimes more options or customization would be nice but this would be in a perfect world idea.

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For a surgery center application, it is much better to use a system that is uniquely designed for surgery centers. Using Athena as a less than desirable work around has been a frustrating experience.

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I have not seen other products but get most of my feedback from the users that use it and the ones that have seen other products.

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• Impact remains to be seen, but overall simplifying billing and customer management
• Better communication with physicians/referral sources
• Scheduling is easier

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