athenaIDX vs. Meditech Electronic Health Records

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
athenaIDX
Score 7.4 out of 10
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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…N/A
Meditech Electronic Health Records
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Meditech, headquartered in Westwood, MA offers EHR software.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Billing and Claims Management
Comparison of Billing and Claims Management features of Product A and Product B
athenaIDX
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Ratings
Meditech Electronic Health Records
4.4
1 Ratings
54% below category average
Real-time eligibility verification00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Claims management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Coding00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Patient billing00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Financial Reporting00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Patient Scheduling
Comparison of Patient Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
athenaIDX
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Meditech Electronic Health Records
4.6
1 Ratings
54% below category average
Rule-based scheduling00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Automated appointment reminders00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Automated patient check-in00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Multi-location support00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Calendar interface00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Electronic Medical Records
Comparison of Electronic Medical Records features of Product A and Product B
athenaIDX
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Ratings
Meditech Electronic Health Records
6.4
2 Ratings
13% below category average
Charting / document management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Templates00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Patient portal00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Mobile/tablet support00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Fax integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Integration with other EMR and PM systems00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Workflow automation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Speech recognition00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Customization00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
E-prescribing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Medical Security and Privacy
Comparison of Medical Security and Privacy features of Product A and Product B
athenaIDX
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Ratings
Meditech Electronic Health Records
8.3
2 Ratings
1% below category average
HIPAA compliance00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Role-based permission levels00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Data backups and redundancy00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Local mode / networking failsafe00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Workflow and Scale
Comparison of Workflow and Scale features of Product A and Product B
athenaIDX
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Meditech Electronic Health Records
8.0
2 Ratings
2% above category average
Task tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Specialty-specific workflows00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Multi-office / multi-physician capabilities00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Intergy EHR
Intergy EHR
Score 7.0 out of 10
athenaClinicals
athenaClinicals
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Score 9.9 out of 10
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Qualifacts CareLogic EHR
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises

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Epic
Epic
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(9 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
athenahealth
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.
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Meditech
Meditech is well-suited to small, independent hospitals requiring a flexible, mostly full-featured EHR with good support. The Expanse upgrade was a significant step forward, and brought the system into the modern world of touch devices while reducing clinician documentation burden.
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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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Meditech
  • Clean interface, easy to see alerts
  • Light footprint on computers, quick to load
  • Good organization of clinical material on the toolbar
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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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Meditech
  • Poor reporting
  • Difficult to view grid data, such as complete medication history
  • A lot of interfacing with its own product due to code differences
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Alternatives Considered
athenahealth
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
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Meditech
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Return on Investment
athenahealth
  • Medication Management has taken a negative impact on our clinicians, the ease of use changed into a complicated process.
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Meditech
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