The athenahealth podcast

Episode 21: Enhanced Self-Check-In features in the Summer 2024 Release

As of the Summer 2024 Release, your patients will be able to fill out numerous check-in forms digitally – and the information in the forms will flow into structured data fields in athenaOne, reducing or eliminating the need for office staff to input that data in athenaOne. Learn more about what we have planned for Enhanced Self-Check-In workflows in the Summer 2024 Release in the newest episode of the athenahealth podcast.

Episode 20: Specialty workflows in athenaOne

athenaOne is already the most flexible, configurable, and agile solution available to clinicians, but we’re now building comprehensive tools and support models to empower these specialists with the tools they need to provide the best possible patient care. Hear more about our plans to better support specialties like urgent care, women's health, and behavioral health in our latest episode.
Want to learn even more? Check out our recent press release.

Episode 19: Digital patient payments make for faster patient payments

Unlike other day-to-day expenses, medical bills can take patients by surprise -- making it more difficult for them to pay their balances promptly, which in turn puts more work on office staff to collect those payments. In the latest episode of the athenahealth podcast, we walk through some of the tools you have to facilitate digital patient payments.
For more specific information on these tools, check out the overview on the Success Community: https://success.athenahealth.com/s/article/000119415
Don't forget to mark your calendar for Thrive, athenahealth's annual event, coming back to Austin, Texas, from October 28-30.

Episode 18: Send claims faster as of the Spring 2024 Release

In the Spring 2024 Release, we're rolling out several features designed to help you get your claims submitted faster and cleaner, ultimately getting you paid faster. Today's podcast goes in-depth on new features like Automatic Claim Creation, the Claim Assistant sidebar, and more -- coming to athenaOne the week of March 18.
This episode of the athenahealth podcast is brought to you by by Augmedix, one of our partners on the athenahealth Marketplace. Augmedix is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered ambient medical documentation and structured data. Visit augmedix.com/go to learn more.

Episode 17: Customize your clinical workflows

No two patients are the same, and no two clinicians practice medicine exactly the same way. In our latest episode, Dr. Nele Jessel walks us through ways clinicians and departments can customize workflows like order sets (including making changes at the point of care), questions asked on order entry, vaccine orders, and more.
Love the podcast? Leave us a review! Have ideas for topics we could cover to best support your experience on athenaOne? Email us at podcast@athenahealth.com.

Episode 16: Bringing patient data to your fingertips

When clinicians have the right patient data at the right time, they can drive better outcomes -- and their organizations can thrive in value-based care programs, too. Get an in-depth look at the athenahealth ecosystem and the way we're partnering with numerous  sources of patient data to ensure clinicians have the full story. You can even hear about the steps we're making toward using AI to summarize external data for clinicians reviewing patient charts.
Love the podcast? Leave us a review! Have ideas on how we can improve it – or what else we should cover? Email us at podcast@athenahealth.com.

Episode 15: The athenaOne mobile app

Our goal is to help clinicians spend more time with patients and less time in front of a computer. In a world of micromoments – those seconds and minutes when you’re waiting in line for coffee or walking down the hallway – a little efficiency can add up to hours of time saved each week. Learn more about how the athenaOne mobile app, a comprehensive, consumer-grade mobile EHR solution, can promote efficient, intelligent, configurable clinical workflows throughout a provider’s day in in today’s episode – as well as in our athenaOne Mobile Throughout the Day demo video.
Love the podcast? Leave us a review! Have ideas on how we can improve it – or what else we should cover? Email us at podcast@athenahealth.com.

Episode 14: Clinical workflows in the Fall 2023 Release

The Fall 2023 Release takes place during the week of November 13. For even more information on the Fall 2023 Release, check out the Fall 2023 Release Walk-through or review the Release Centers on the Success Community.
Have a topic you want us to cover in a future episode? Email podcast@athenahealth.com.

Episode 13: Growing and reducing costs via clinically integrated networks

The Alaska Provider Network is a clinically integrated network (CIN) -- a group of independent healthcare providers who collaborate on best practices to improve cost, quality, and patient care, as well as the efficiency and wellbeing of providers. The largest benefit for the members of Alaska Provider Network is access to collective data. Clinicians can use this data practice to better identify high-risk patients and prepare the appropriate treatment. Learn more about opportunities for growth and cost reduction through clinically integrated networks in today's episode of the athenahealth podcast.

Episode 12: How Medicare cuts could impact your practice

This month, we take an in-depth look on how proposed cuts to Medicare payment rates threaten to jeopardize patient access to care – and your rates of reimbursement. What can you can do about it? Listen to learn more – and visit FixMedicareNow.org for even more information.