athenaIDX 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…
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RXNT
Score 7.9 out of 10
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RXNT is an ambulatory healthcare tech solution for medical practices and healthcare organizations. Since 1999, RXNT has offered integrated, customizable, ONC-certified Clinical and Practice Management software for medical offices, healthcare organizations, and specialists across the United States. RXNT's suite of technology includes provides Clinical EHR, Practice Management, Medical Billing and RCM, E-Prescribing, Practice Scheduling, Patient Portal for medical professionals.…
$126
per month per provider
Pricing
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EHR Bundle
$126
per month per provider
PM Bundle
$213
per month per provider
Full Suite
$335
per month per provider
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athenaIDX
RXNT
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Pricing includes setup and training period, data transfer and storage, and in-house support. Plus, 24/7 cloud-based access, regular system upgrades, and mobile applications. All plans are per provider, and the pricing structure is an annual contract, billed monthly or yearly. A 10% discount is available for yearly billing.
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Athena IDX is more expensive, has less features, is less modern, interfaces with our modern systems poorly and has actively created more manual work across the company. Each of the systems above are better in every conceivable way compared to this program.
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.
During my medical rotations I have used multiple products similar to Centricity, but I found Centricity to be one of the easiest to use and one of the easiest systems to learn.
I did not select Centricity. It was the hospital's main EMR during my rotation there. I would say Soarian is best, but only because I have used that EMR more than the others.
RXNT offers better quality and more customization for the cost. Valant was very expensive regardless if you wanted a few features or the entire EHR. eClinical Works is easy to duplicate records but then it can take a while to update with current information. And their updated …
10 out of 10 for RXNT for how easy is is to use. The other systems don’t have the easy flow and functionality that RXNT has. The cost was also a reason we went with RXNT, there were no hidden fees they were transparent with everything and have so many different options that fit …
We've always been on the
lookout for the right software that meets our clients’ clinical needs but is
also robust on the medical billing side. Something that integrates well for
It is difficult to compare the two as we do not use RXNT for scheduling and billing; this is done using a different application. I do not know why. But as for note creating and editing, my preference used to be RXNT, which was more intuitive and flexible for me compared with …
Athena is a well-suited electronic medical record system for those professionals that work in a medical center, hospital, clinic, and/or outpatient clinic that need to provide frequent and accurate documentation for insurance providers and all other members of the care team. It might be less appropriate for a small agency.
I believe it is best suited for organizations that wish to utilize all of the available tools within the system. I do not believe it is well suited for organizations that lack a deep understanding of the revenue cycle process or individuals who try to cut corners in managing accounts receivables. It works extraordinarily well in situations where one will take the time to set up all the available tools, test them, and make them part of their workflow.
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.
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
Since my last review, there have been significant problems with RXNT. The first being that after the new year, I was unable to send controlled substance prescriptions. The solution turned out to be an obscure and arcane issue that was difficult to resolve
Second, RXNT added additional steps for authentication when signing but completely bungled the roll out, informing users with only one pop-up informational box on a Monday morning with no follow up nor any advice on how to manage this change. The result was that my entire organization was unable to access RXNT for several days on Friday after they made the change.
Third is RXNT's collective response to the second problem, namely that no one could access the program, meaning we could not view past notes for patients nor prescribe medications. They took almost half a day even to respond to our multiple complaints and requests for help. When they finally responded, their suggestions were completely useless and we remained unable to use the program. Fortunately, our CEO figured out how to access the program over the weekend. However, that meant that many of us had to work over the weekend to complete our notes and prescribe meds. Of note, we did not get a single response from RXNT over the weekend, in spite of multiple emails.
Fourth, RXNT offered absolutely no apologies or accountability for their actions. They excused themselves from failing to respond to our emails and requests by noting that they had only 20 IT staff on hand for the roll out of the changes noted above, for which they seemed to have failed to plan for any issues. They made nothing but excuses, blaming us for their poor planning.
Fifth, after our CEO chastised them for their entirely unprofessional behavior and lack of caring for their customers, they assigned us a specific individual, whom they claimed would be responsive to us for any further difficulties. Well, we have had a number of further difficulties in logging in to RXNT and prescribing controlled substances, and the individual tasked with taking care of us was no more responsive or accountable than we had experienced before. She did not answer emails in a timely fashion, nor did she offer any useful assistance.
Overall, we are very disappointed with RXNT, who have proved to be unprofessional, unaccountable, and incompetent.
Having used other systems, there are still items I would like to see added to this platform. Additional forms, understanding of how to load those forms into the system. Ability for clients to access those forms. And the ability to upload forms that are coming in externally. This would be helpful.
Product support is absolutely terrible. We have been having problems with the product since the beginning of the year and their customer support has been growing progressively worse. The most egregious example of this is when they implemented a major change to the authentication process without any planning. When things went wrong, they offered no support. Very disappointed.
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.
Customize encounter templates, billing codes, and forms to match your specialties. RXNT allows specialty-specific configurations, which improves efficiency.
Athena IDX is more expensive, has less features, is less modern, interfaces with our modern systems poorly and has actively created more manual work across the company. Each of the systems above are better in every conceivable way compared to this program.
RXNT offers better quality and more customization for the cost. Valant was very expensive regardless if you wanted a few features or the entire EHR. eClinical Works is easy to duplicate records but then it can take a while to update with current information. And their updated version...you might need a magnifying glass especially if you are using on a laptop. I love the larger font and overall appeal of RXNT much better
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.
