athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:
ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services for electronic
health record (EHR),
practice management and care
coordination today announced athenaClaritySM,
a new cloud-based analytics service for medical groups and health
systems to improve visibility into and management over the complex data
that exists across caregiver networks and patient populations. Unlike
traditional business intelligence tools or health information exchange
(HIE) capabilities, athenaClarity:
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Harmonizes data across disparate practice management, clinical, and
claims systems;
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Provides a single, cloud-based platform to develop insight from that
data; and
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Guides action at the point of care that aligns with revenue goals and
care outcomes.
With athenaClarity, providers, medical groups, and health systems can be
prepared to thrive under any reimbursement scenario, ranging from
traditional fee-for-service (FFS) to shared savings and global-risk
models. athenaClarity helps to guide providers’ performance by
benchmarking their productivity under a FFS contract or by measuring
adherence to network-wide cost and quality measures for a shared savings
contract. Regardless of clinical or practice management system vendor,
athenaClarity provides a clear view on the performance of financial
operations under different payment scenarios.
“Our mission is to be medical caregivers’ most trusted service, helping
them do well doing the right thing. As part of this, we work continually
to identify ways to free up providers’ time so they can focus on
patients, perform at the top of their license and leave the
administrative and ‘busy work’ to us,” said Jonathan Bush, CEO and
Chairman, athenahealth. “athenaClarity is a natural extension to the
services we deliver; it helps providers thrive under new models of
revenue by making data across networks of caregivers, populations of
patients, and disparate systems accessible and actionable. As part of
athenaClarity, we provide more than a dashboard, we partner with our
clients to track and identify key metrics that will help them achieve
clinical and operational insight that hasn’t been possible to date.”
In support of population health management workflows, athenaClarity
converts claim and clinical data from across a care network into a
single consolidated view, making it easy to understand network
performance down to the patient and provider level. This helps with:
quality measurement; population health outreach; utilization; tracking
care trends over time and against budget; and provider-administrator
alignment. And, with a consolidated view on practice management data, it
becomes simple to understand activity related to collections, referrals,
denials, days in account receivables (DAR) to maximize performance on
the FFS contracts.
“At the New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA), we have found the
ability to harmonize data across otherwise disparate systems is
invaluable; with athenaClarity, doors will open in countless ways for
improved clinical and financial performance,” said Betsey Eltonhead,
Chief Operating Officer of NEQCA. “Through more-informed, data-driven
decisions, physician practices and hospitals are better positioned to
thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly requiring greater
transparency of performance and alignment of risks and incentives.”
“Across care environments providers are being challenged to transition
from the fee-for-service status quo to a variety of shared-savings and
risk-based models,” said Todd Rothenhaus, Chief Medical Officer,
athenahealth. “This shift in mindset requires health care leaders to
re-focus on network strategies that address the entire continuum of
care, including productivity, overall utilization, population-based
quality, and care management. athenaClarity is designed to integrate
with and work seamlessly alongside existing EHR and practice management
systems and is equally deployable in offices without EHRs, making
clinical integration across care networks possible without forcing
providers into a single EHR biosphere.”
athenaClarity was created by combining resources and expertise from
across athenahealth and from Anodyne
Health and HDS,
two acquisitions athenahealth made to accelerate its delivery of
comprehensive data analysis and workflow tools. For more information on
athenaClarity, please visit: http://www.athenahealth.com/clarity
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based Best in KLAS
electronic health record (EHR),
practice management, and care coordination services to medical groups
and health systems. athenahealth’s mission is to be the most trusted
service to medical care givers, helping them do well by doing the right
thing. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
or call 888-652-8200.
