Compare Clinic Essentials and Athenahealth - Feb 2023

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Clinic Essentials or Athenahealth?

Athenahealth is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Clinic Essentials, and Athenahealth is rated higher (96/100) than Clinic Essentials (58/100). Athenahealth offers users more features (16) than Clinic Essentials (0).

Looking for the right Medical Practice 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:

Tri Tech Information Systems Vs. Athenahealth

Tri Tech Information Systems: Tri Tech Information Systems is a Canadian company based in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia. Since 1999, we’ve been helping health and wellness clinics reach their full potential with our leading clinic management solution and a commitment to quality and service. With Clinic Essentials, practitioners will know that their clinic is running sm...

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.

Who is more expensive? Clinic Essentials or Athenahealth?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Medical Practice 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 Clinic Essentials and Athenahealth.

Clinic Essentials price starts at $250 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Clinic Essentials is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Medical Practice software. Athenahealth price starts at $140 per provider/month + 4% to 7% , When comparing Athenahealth to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Medical Practice software cost.

Bottom line: Athenahealth is more expensive than Clinic Essentials.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Clinic Essentials Vs. Athenahealth based on some of the most important and required Medical Practice features.

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

Athenahealth: Security, Accounting & Finance, Billing & Invoicing, Email, Task Management.

Target customer size

Clinic Essentials's typical customers include: SMBs,

Athenahealth's medical software is primarily designed for medical practices, including primary care physicians, specialists, and small to mid-size practices.