CLEVELAND & WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record (EHR), and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that University Hospitals (UH), one of the nation’s largest community-based health systems, has expanded its relationship with athenahealth and will deploy the Company’s cloud-based practice management and medical billing service, athenaCollector®, to its academic medical center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, which is supported by more than 1,000 medical providers. This builds on UH’s decision to contract with athenahealth for the implementation of athenaCollector across its University Hospitals Management Services Organization practices in 2009.
“The results we have achieved to date with athenaCollector were the impetus for us selecting athenahealth’s revenue cycle management services for our academic medical center,” said Michael Nochomovitz, MD, President of University Health Physician Services. “Already, athenaCollector has significantly increased our revenue cycle performance for our providers at lower cost to our system and allowed our organizations to leverage an extremely powerful, unified network that operates with intelligence, transparency and connectivity that allows our care givers to wade through administrative complexity and make better informed decisions. athenahealth is a great example of UH’s investments in innovative IT solutions that make the individual physician, and the collective whole of the system, more efficient.”
Jonathan Bush, athenahealth’s Chairman and CEO commented, “Because it operates in the cloud, our service offering grows more valuable as more intelligence and experience is populated into it. In deploying athenaCollector across a wider base of provider groups within UH, more value and better results can be extracted and applied.”
Bush continued, “It is always gratifying to win new business with such a well-established, highly respected and forward-looking system like UH. It is especially gratifying when you are selected by a client who knows your competition and the industry landscape so well.”
As part of its athenaCollector service, athenahealth offers a patented knowledge-base of payer reimbursement process rules, the athenaNet rules engine, which is designed to enforce medical office workflow requirements and is updated continuously by athenahealth staff. athenahealth’s rules engine acts as a proactive utility that guides clinic staff away from making billing mistakes that impact operational performance and the overall patient experience.
About University Hospitals
With 150 locations throughout Northeast Ohio, University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of hospitals, outpatient centers and primary care physicians. At the core of its health system is University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center is home to some of the most prestigious clinical and research centers of excellence in the nation and the world, including cancer, pediatrics, women’s health, orthopedics and spine, radiology and radiation oncology, neurosurgery and neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, organ transplantation and human genetics. Its main campus includes the internationally celebrated Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, ranked among the top hospitals in the nation; MacDonald Women’s Hospital, Ohio’s only hospital for women; and Seidman Cancer Center, which holds the nation's highest designation by the National Cancer Institute as part of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center based at Case Western Reserve University. For more information, go to www.uhhospitals.org.
About athenahealth
athenahealth, Inc. a leading provider of cloud-based business services for physician practices. athenahealth’s service offerings are based on proprietary web-native practice management and electronic health record (EHR) software, a continuously updated payer knowledge-base, integrated back-office service operations, and automated and live patient communication services. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com or call (888) 652-8200.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the anticipated benefits of athenahealth’s service offerings, and the nature of prospective markets for those offerings. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: the risk that our service offerings will not operate in the manner that we expect, due to design flaws, security breaches, or otherwise; potential interruptions or delays in our internet-based service offerings; our reliance upon third parties, such as computer hardware, software, data-hosting, and internet infrastructure providers, which reliance may result in failures or disruptions in our service offerings; errors or omissions included in our payer and clinical intelligence rules engine and database; and the evolving and complex government regulatory compliance environment in which we and our clients operate. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. athenahealth undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, or otherwise. For additional disclosure regarding these and other risks faced by athenahealth, please see the disclosure contained in our public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available on the Investors section of our website at http://www.athenahealth.com and on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.