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    athenaIDX

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AathenaIDX is an on-premise or cloud-hosted enterprise RCM solution that helps health systems, hospitals, billing services, and large practices optimize financial performance and successfully adapt to healthcare payment reform. It is based on the Centricity medical practice and EMR software that was formerly owned and supported by GE Healthcare acquired by Veritas Capital in 2018, spun off into a new entity (Virence Health), and then rebranded as a product of athenahealth (also a Veritas…N/A

    HighRadius Accounts Receivable

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AAutonomous Receivables, from HighRadius headquartered in Houston, is anaccounts receivable solution. It is designed to reduce DSO and bad debt, and connects credit, billing & invoicing, cash application, deductions, and collections.N/A
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    athenaIDXHighRadius Accounts Receivable
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    athenaIDXHighRadius Accounts Receivable
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    User Testimonials
    athenaIDXHighRadius Accounts Receivable
    Likelihood to Recommend
    athenahealth
    I couldn't recommend IDX to anyone. Most of the reviews on this site appear to be for the program that broke off from Athena IDX, Centricity Practice Solutions (CPS). CPS is a much more capable program managed by Unlimited Systems (a separate company) that should NOT be confused with Athena IDX (managed by Athena Health). It's possible that Athena IDX was usable in the 90s compared to other peer programs at that time, but there are so, so many better, modern solutions available now for far less money. This software is priced at the enterprise level with a level of quality that is below budget tier with an ancient feature set to boot.
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    HighRadius
    [HighRadius Collections Cloud] is well suited for [a] multitude of businesses. It's a well-versed system that uses your current data to help drive automation with the receivables. [It] also uses analytics to help drive forecasting. Businesses need to realize [their] data is what drives [the] program, so [they] need to ensure [the] dataset is valid before trying to convert over to [HighRadius Collections Cloud]. Existing ERP is driving what [HighRadius Collections Cloud] can or can not do.
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    Pros
    athenahealth
    • One of the best things about Centricity is it is flexible. We are able to add a data point behind a term (CPS calls this an observation term) and track any data needed. These observation terms also allow us to pull information forward and display information needed to make a good decision or used to decrease errors. For example in our history forms given to the patients one of the questions is side of injury. This affected side displays on our EMR forms which helps providers and prevents mistakes.
    • CPS integrates with other programs. We are paperless and use DocuSign to send each patient their history, ROS and all new paperwork. This allows us to import the history into the forms and has saved us from adding extra staff (FTEs) to room and take history. The history form can be completed at home or in the waiting room. Each section has a observation term behind it and allows it to be placed into the note at the correct section. Since we have a fully integrated product we do not have to have another program to enter or transfer our charges from the EMR to the PM side of the program.
    • Our notes look great! We did a lot of customization which gave us the detail and look we wanted. It seems like a lot of work at first, but the outcome has so much efficacy. We increased our providers without having to increase our staffing and it is due to he efficiencies we gained by using the EMR.
    • One other note, Centricity is flexible but that means it is complicated. You can not have flexibility without it be complicated don't let that stop you the end results can be great.
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    HighRadius
    • Creates scoring for working worklists
    • Able to send out statements and emails electronically
    • Segment customer accounts
    • Better reporting
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    Cons
    athenahealth
    • Statements print only current open accounts, would be nice to print a total statement for patients so they can see if payments are split between open and closed/zeroed out accounts
    • Ability to create custom reports
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    HighRadius
    • More out of the box functionality
    • Quicker turnaround times with IT department
    • Tiered level support for IT tickets
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    Online Training
    athenahealth
    Training consists of overly specific points with no general process considerations. Trainers will regularly go 'into the weeds' on pointless edge cases while the meat of the training still needs to be addressed.
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    HighRadius
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    Alternatives Considered
    athenahealth
    Athena IDX is more reliable than other platforms. It rarely has latency challenges where it has to be intermittently shut down or updated. It is accessible on multiple devices and overall, easy to use and navigate.
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    HighRadius
    [HighRadius Collections Cloud] encompasses several modules that interact with one another. This allows the data to talk between the different modules, this [is] one of the main strengths of [HighRadius Collections Cloud].
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    athenahealth
    The pricing structure is outlandish for how old and feature poor this program is.
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    HighRadius
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    Professional Services
    athenahealth
    Zero ownership. Zero responsibility. Zero desire to build something good.
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    HighRadius
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    Return on Investment
    athenahealth
    • Extremely expensive software for the limited feature set. We're talking millions of dollars with off hours support (anything outside of 8-6EST) that starts at $1200 for the first hour and $300 for each hour afterwards.
    • Multitasking isn't a thing unless you assign more licenses (thereby increasing your costs). Users can quite literally only have one IDX window open at a time unless you assign more licenses. This slows down everyone as there are plenty of times where examining different parts of a patient's profile is useful.
    • Reporting has been nearly impossible as we use modern reporting software. IDX's analytics site is firmly stuck in the 1990s and lacks decades of innovation present in something like Power BI.
    • Nickel and diming philosophy. A limited API server costs ~$10k/month. Setting up a new facility in IDX costs you and requires a 4 month lead time. Many more instances of this.
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    HighRadius
    • Has helped drive down DSO
    • Reduced staffing
    • Allowed us to better segment customer accounts
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