Athenahealth offers cloud-based EHR, practice management, and medical billing software for healthcare providers. See athenaOne features, history, and pricing…
Athenahealth is a healthcare technology company that builds cloud-based software for medical practices, covering electronic health records, practice management, medical billing, and patient engagement. It was founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park and is now headquartered in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
The company went public in 2007 and later went through two major private-equity ownership changes: Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital acquired it in 2019 in a deal that merged it with GE Healthcare's former IT business, Virence Health, and Bain Capital together with Hellman and Friedman acquired it again in 2022 for roughly 17 billion dollars.
Athenahealth serves ambulatory healthcare practices, from small independent physician offices to larger multi-specialty groups, connecting more than 170,000 providers and processing hundreds of millions of medical claims each year.
The flagship product, athenaOne, is an integrated cloud-based platform that bundles several previously separate modules into a single suite for medical practices.
athenaClinicals is the electronic health records and clinical documentation component, supporting charting, e-prescribing, and clinical decision support at the point of care.
athenaCollector handles revenue cycle management and medical billing, including claims scrubbing and submission, denial management, and collections tracking, often paired with a percentage-of-collections pricing model.
athenaCommunicator provides patient engagement tools such as appointment reminders, online scheduling, and secure messaging, while the Epocrates app, acquired in 2013, offers point-of-care clinical reference for prescribers.
Athenahealth does not publish standard list pricing. Costs depend on practice size, specialty, which modules are adopted, and deployment scope, and are quoted directly through the sales team.
For its revenue cycle management services, athenahealth has historically used a percentage-of-collections model in addition to or instead of flat subscription fees, meaning cost scales with a practice's billed revenue rather than a fixed per-user rate.
Athenahealth provides cloud-based electronic health records, practice management, medical billing, and patient engagement software for medical practices and health systems.
No. Athenahealth was public from 2007 until 2019, when it was taken private by Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital; it was acquired again by Bain Capital and Hellman and Friedman in 2022 and remains privately held.
athenaOne is athenahealth's integrated cloud platform that bundles athenaClinicals, athenaCollector, and athenaCommunicator into a single suite.
Athenahealth does not publish list pricing. Costs are quoted based on practice size, specialty, and modules used, and revenue cycle services are often billed as a percentage of collections.
Athenahealth was founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park.
athenaClinicals is athenahealth's electronic health records module, covering clinical documentation, charting, and e-prescribing.
Competitors in ambulatory EHR and practice management include Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, and Kareo (Tebra).
Athenahealth is headquartered in the Boston, Massachusetts area.