athenaClinicals vs. Tebra EHR

athenaClinicals is well suited from a single physician office to an enterprise healthcare system. The only specialty that they cannot cover is oncology that includes chemotherapy infusions (the dosing is very complicated and requires a specific oncology system).

Incentivized

We love the system. Very user-friendly and any level of user can pick up the system without training. Being a trainer myself, this is an awesome selling point. I have not found a specialty that cannot pick up and run with the program. Kareo has eliminated our "wasted" time and given us new avenues to use our resources more productively.

Incentivized

• Athena is able to create a medication list from the patient's pharmacy purchase history. This aides in compiling a comprehensive list quickly, especially when the patients do not know what meds they are on. The downside to this module is that every time that you add a medication that is not on the list, it turns it into an order that the provider needs to sign. There are many times that you need to make an addition, that the provider does not want to sign as an order.
• The patient history module is easy to configure to meet the needs of the organization.

Incentivized

• Catching missing patient info
• Catching missing insurance info
• Providing mailing addresses

• The cost is very high compared to other programs.
• Some people find the program difficult to learn.
• The billing software requires more work than is described when they are trying to sell you the program.
• The sales staff that we dealt with had the vibe of car salesmen. At times very pushy and the room for negotiation grew at each interaction. The high cost first quoted is very negotiable but they "up charge" for many things.

Incentivized

• Sales representative needs to know the product. We got tied into a miscommunication on the package (contract vs trial) when we decided to work with them
• Tutorials are good but can be overwhelming because there are a lot of features to learn
• Charging to migrate client data was a determining factor on whether we wanted to continue with the company. If we knew this upfront it would've allowed us to say "no thanks". And to add the charges are not cheap and they charge a la carte (i.e., demographics, billing, progress notes, forms/intake info)

Incentivized

Kareo was a massive waste of money. It's an unreliable product without promised features and sold by a disingenuous sales team. We will stick to reliable services like Doxy, Therapy Notes, etc.

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

Incentivized

The user interface is fine but it the app constantly freezes or crashes.

They are always there. Friendly and organized.

Greenway was absolutely horrible. Not intuitive, no right-click functionality, poor integration, and flexibility. athenaClinicals surpasses it in every aspect.

WoundExpert was well suited to wound healing and hyperbaric medical practices. If athenaClinicals had the right forms and ability to accommodate wound care and HBO workflows, it would be a good competitor.

Incentivized

I have used QuickEMR and Kareo hands-down is just more appealing and easier to enter all patient information. I did find that QuickEMR for administrative staff is more user-friendly. Kareo provides more patient information and is very good about seeing what is missing in order to file a claim.

• ROI definitely a positive

Incentivized