Compare Athenahealth and Advanced EHR - Feb 2023

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Athenahealth or Advanced EHR?

Advanced EHR is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Athenahealth, and Athenahealth is rated higher (96/100) than Advanced EHR (75/100). Athenahealth offers users more features (16) than Advanced EHR (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Athenahealth!

Looking for the right Medical solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Athenahealth Vs. AdvancedMD

Athenahealth: athenahealth delivers cloud-based services for EHR, practice management and care coordination. Our mission is to be caregivers' most trusted service, helping them do well doing the right thing.

AdvancedMD: AdvancedMD, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is part of a globally-trusted company with nearly $11B in revenues and approximately 620,000 clients, including more than 45,000 U.S.-based physicians. Our company is one of the world’s largest providers of cloud-based software, including an ONC-ATCB-CCHIT 2011-2012 Certified complete electronic health rec...

Who is more expensive? Athenahealth or AdvancedEHR?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Medical software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Athenahealth and AdvancedEHR.

Athenahealth price starts at $140 per provider/month + 4% to 7% , On a scale between 1 to 10 Athenahealth is rated 4, which is lower than the average cost of Medical software. AdvancedEHR price starts at $729 per month , When comparing AdvancedEHR to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Medical software cost.

Bottom line: AdvancedEHR is more expensive than Athenahealth.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Athenahealth Vs. Advanced EHR based on some of the most important and required Medical features.

Athenahealth: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Security, Accounting & Finance, Billing & Invoicing, Email, Task Management, Backup, Remote Access, Billing & Invoicing.

AdvancedEHR: We are still working to collect the list of features for AdvancedEHR.

Target customer size

Athenahealth's medical software is primarily designed for medical practices, including primary care physicians, specialists, and small to mid-size practices. The typical clients that use AdvancedEHR software are the individuals, mainly healthcare professionals such as nurses, in small business and/or medium-sized businesses that have one to 100 employees and more than 100 to 1,000 employees respectively and are utilizing the services from industry sector of IT and other information related service, particularly with the EHR/EMR.